William Finger was born on February 8, 1914. He met cartoonist Bob
Kane at a party in 1938, and soon after they were collaborating on
several adventure strips. Within a year, Batman appeared. Finger's
fondness for pulp fiction and movies influenced his plots and
writing style for comic books. He worked on many other DC
characters and titles, scripted some of the 1940s daily and Sunday
Batman and Robin newspaper strip continuities, and wrote for
Quality, Fawcett and Timely.
Finger's television credits include 77 Sunset Strip, The Roaring
Twenties and Hawaiian Eye during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
His efforts in the super-hero genre also appeared on TV in the
1960s, including material for the animated New Adventures of
Superman plus a two-part Clock King episode of the 1966 Batman
series. Finger died in New York City on January 24, 1974. He was
posthumously inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame in 1999.
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