Besides being Finger’s 100th birthday, 2014 is the 75th anniversary of Batman’s first appearance in comics.
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The push originated with Marc Tyler Nobleman, the writer of Boys of Steel (about Superman co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster) and Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman. After he took to Twitter to encourage fans to contact Google, a number of other comics-industry figures have done the same:
Fellow nerds, please do this. “@MarcTNobleman: Bill Finger’s 100th b-day: 2/8. Request a Google Doodle for it! Email: proposals@google.com.
— Brad Meltzer (@bradmeltzer) January 9, 2014Via @TheGhostSix “a movement to get Bill Finger a @GoogleDoodles on his 100th BDay https://t.co/S43W3RmBbN” YES! Email: proposals@google.com
— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) January 9, 2014There are plenty more where that came from.Nobleman has been trying to get Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment to credit Bill Finger as the co-creator of Batman for quite some time; during Kane’s life, he resisted that, but after Finger died he admitted that he should have helped his collaborator get credit.”Now that my long-time friend and collaborator is gone, I must admit that Bill never received the fame and recognition he deserved. He was an unsung hero,” Kane said later in life. “I often tell my wife, if I could go back fifteen years, before he died, I would like to say ‘I’ll put your name on it now. You deserve it.’”Nobleman encourages fans who wish to pay tribute to Finger to show their support by emailing proposals@google.com.
