"Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate … I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective."
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Bob Kane
Robert "Bob" Kane (October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998), born Robert Kahn, was an American comic book writer and artist best known as the originator of the DC Comics character Batman.
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