The Many Hands of Bill Finger SDCC 2025 Panel

About this episode

A panel discussion tracing Bill Finger's career across comics, television, and film.

Panel description: Before Gotham had shadows, writer Bill Finger cast them. Comics scholar Alex Grand (*Understanding Superhero Comic Books*) moderates a lively conversation with Athena Finger (Bill’s granddaughter and advocate), historian Bill Field (Field of Comics), and playwright/filmmaker Leonard Schwartz (Bill Finger: Rise of the Bat), and now with Mark Evanier (Bill Finger Awards). Together we trace Finger’s career across comics, television, and film, and show why crediting Batman’s co...

People in this episode

Host: Alex Grand

Guests: Athena Finger, Bill Field, Leonard Schwartz, Mark Evanier

Topics covered

• Bill Finger
• comics history
• Batman
• comic book creators
• SDCC 2025
• panel discussion

Keywords

• Bill Finger
• Batman
• comics
• SDCC 2025
• panel
• history
• comic book creators

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Understanding Superhero Comic Books, Bill Finger: Rise of the Bat

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