Bill Finger Family, DC Entertainment Announce Agreement

DC Entertainment announced through the Hollywood Reporter's "Heat Vision" blog that it has come to an agreement with the family of the writer Bill Finger about his contributions to DC's Batman property -- both the character and the extended universe in which the character lives. Bob Kane was listed as sole creator on all things Batman for years. One of the comics industry's ugly secrets, and still just as ugly as it became less of secret, was the overwhelming number of contributions that Finger made to that milieu and that character without a humane, moral recognition of that work. The fact that Finger had a tough time in life, particularly later on, exacerbated the tragic aspects of his story.

The blog post concentrates on credit going to the creator on the Gotham TV show and the forthcoming Superman Vs. Batman movie, whose name escapes me. A wider arrangement is implied though not detailed.

This sounds like a really good thing in that it's better that it happens than it not happen, but a less impressive act when you consider the harm done for decades by the policies being reversed or at least mitigated against and their general unnecessary quality. One hopes that the entirety of the arrangement be released, although it's likely the company will be given maximum credit for this step regardless if we learn the size of its stride.
 
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