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Posted on 12/20/23 at 11:00 pm to Kafka
That's not Bill Finger, that's Steve Ditko.
Posted on 12/20/23 at 11:50 pm to PowerTool
quote:l thought Ditko was Mr Secretive and didn't like being photographed?
That's not Bill Finger, that's Steve Ditko
I posted another 'Bill Finger pic" a few weeks ago but it was actually Bob Kane (no one noticed that one).
Maybe this is Bill:

Posted on 12/21/23 at 12:22 am to Kafka
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l thought Ditko was Mr Secretive and didn't like being photographed?
He was famously, shy. That's one of like 3 pictures of him, which is why I recognized it. I know even less about Bill Finger.
LINK
In a younger picture, you can see who Ditko modeled Peter Parker after:
LINK
The mystery of the Bill Finger screwjob is pretty intriguing, as there wasn't a situation where the boss took credit for everything, like Stan Lee allegedly did.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 1:00 am to PowerTool
quote:LINK
The mystery of the Bill Finger screwjob is pretty intriguing, as there wasn't a situation where the boss took credit for everything, like Stan Lee allegedly did.
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Bob Kane (left) did everything he could to suppress Bill Finger’s (right) involvement in the creation of Batman. Finger was not a natural salesman, but Kane was. Kane negotiated a deal with DC, bringing fame and fortune as sole creator
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Kane, on the other hand, loved the limelight. He’d greet fans wearing expensive suits or dressed in a cowl, wrote an overblown autobiography, and, according to the documentary, passed off artists’ oil paintings of Batman as his own. But the real treachery began in a lawyer’s office.
quote:I've sometimes wondered how Kane got any share of Batman. Siegel & Schuster got nothing from Superman.
DC Comics offered to publish the Batman comics. And Kane made sure he was the only one to show Batman off to the comic book publisher. Kane, following advice from his [lawyer] father, negotiated sole credit as the creator of Batman and a percentage of everything DC Comics licensed the character on. The lucrative deal formed the foundation of the $10 million fortune Kane would accumulate over the course of his life.
I just learned there is a Bill Finger documentary:

Posted on 12/21/23 at 5:58 am to Kafka
Joe Pesci taking a break on the set of Home Alone.
Macaulay Culkin and Director of Photography Julio Macat on the set of Home Alone 2.
This post was edited on 12/21/23 at 6:00 am
Posted on 12/22/23 at 6:41 pm to Kafka
Behind the scenes on Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (1964)


Posted on 12/28/23 at 3:57 am to Kafka
It's funny, just a few years ago we would have laughed at those reactions as over the top and taking it too seriously, now it's the accepted reaction for every single movie that doesn't follow a certain strict guideline
Posted on 12/28/23 at 7:30 pm to Kafka
Tommy Smothers w/Jim Morrison
Posted on 1/3/24 at 8:20 pm to Kafka
Sergio Leone & Henry Fonda
Sergio would have been 94 today
Sergio would have been 94 today
Posted on 1/23/24 at 8:27 pm to Kafka
Captain Renault meets Major Strasser on the Casablanca set


Posted on 1/25/24 at 9:34 pm to tigerfan84
Sister Vincent Price having a ball


Posted on 1/26/24 at 9:07 am to Kafka
That episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" where Barney buys a surplus flathead Harley with the sidecar is a classic.
Watch the show and you will see the goggles he sports in the entire episode has no lenses in them.
I particularly like the scene where Aunt Bee, fed up with Barney running all over town like a nut on the bike tells Andy she saw a movie where the Allies strung a wire across a road and when the Nazis drove down the road, they hit the wire and she made a gesture like they were beheaded.
Andy thought that a bit drastic....
Watch the show and you will see the goggles he sports in the entire episode has no lenses in them.
I particularly like the scene where Aunt Bee, fed up with Barney running all over town like a nut on the bike tells Andy she saw a movie where the Allies strung a wire across a road and when the Nazis drove down the road, they hit the wire and she made a gesture like they were beheaded.
Andy thought that a bit drastic....
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