Ironically enough, that issue: Batman #117, was published in 1958, not in the 40's. I think that the stories that are bugging you are the Sci-Fi type ones that were published in the 50's and 60's. That is what was trendy at the time, and changing to those stories helped keep Batman popular. More importantly they helped keep Batman published. Batman had to (and has to) change with the times or no one owuld have kept reading, and Batman would have gone to way that most of the Golden Age characters did: away.
RE: old BAtman too lame!!! -
Posted on 20-03-2006 13:44
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Yeah, the late '50s and early '60s saw a lot of sci-fi stories with aliens and adventures on foreign planets. I have an issue from 1961 where Batman and Robin discover that this dorky-looking alien broke out prison inmates, dressed them in stupid costumes, and had them steal items made of a precious alien metal that he could make some mind control device... or something.
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Batmanbat wrote:
Kane did practically nothing when creating Batman. Finger did the most. Poor old Bill died broke and uncredited. I'll miss ya!:cry:
you're soo wrong! bob invented the original batman!!! finger just added on!!!
but finger was great. think of batman today without finger. he wouldn't be wearing the gaunlets for one. batman'd still always end up on a cliff at the end of every comic and end up throwing the bad guy off. fun stuff
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RE: old BAtman too lame!!! -
Posted on 01-04-2006 01:17
Batmanbat wrote:
Kane did practically nothing when creating Batman. Finger did the most. Poor old Bill died broke and uncredited. I'll miss ya!:cry:
It's untrue that Kane did practically nothing, but Finger's contributions are often overlooked, and I agree that he does deserve a co-creator credit. Kane's original Batman design, the one he showed Bill Finger, featured the Dark Knight wearing a small domino mask(like the eye mask Robin wears), and had red wings based on Leonardo Da Vinci's designs for the Ornithopter flying machine. Finger suggested making the costume black and gray, rather than red and gray, making the mask a full cowl and tossing the wings in favor of the familiar scalloped cape. The familiar Batman look was born. The two men were collaborators, and the work they did on the Bat-Man (as he was known in those early days) was truly a partnership. Both men's names deserve to be spoken with equal reverence.
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