Missed It: Bill Finger Awards To Hughes, Maggin

This rolled out on Friday afternoon after I closed shop for the weekend: Richard E. Hughes and Elliot S! Maggin will be the recipients of this year's Bill Finger Awards, given out during the Eisner Awards ceremony the Friday of Comic-Con International.

Hughes is probably best known for his work with Ogden Whitney on the amazing Herbie character, although I note that he also wrote The Black Terror, the Golden Age superhero whose costume and general demeanor most suggested don't-fuck-with-me derangement. Hughes passed away in 1974.

Maggin I believe is best known for lengthy runs on multiple Superman titles mostly in but not limited to the 1970s.

Both men strike me as choices firmly within the award's chosen rubric of honoring comic book writers, one living and one no longer with us, that contributed significantly to that field while not receiving the recognition they deserved. I am delighted by awards with a political element almost as much as I'm delighted by awards that give cash or come with impossibly complicated-looking trophies. To be clear, this only does the first, but it does it very well. It is one of the best parts of the Eisner evenings, particularly hearing from the families of the deceased writer.
 
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