Your 2010 Finger Award Winners



Finger Awards judge Mark Evanier's News From ME is among the dozens of outlets that's already reported that Gary Friedrich and Otto Binder will be the recipients of this year's Bill Finger Award for Achievement in Comic Book Writing. Designed to honor early Batman writer Bill Finger, an enormous contributor to the shape and tone of the mainstream comics industry that never received the reward or credit he was due, the Finger award has gone to one living writer and one that's passed away since its inception.

Gary Friedrich is one of the few writer who can say he was a major cog at Marvel during its 1960s game-changing heyday, coming to the company from Charlton. He wrote an assortment of Marvel's quality second-tier titles (X-Men, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Not Brand Ecch, various westerns), most memorably a long run on the Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos series, a key title for Marvel in that it had the Marvel feel but operated in a genre outside of superheroes. In 1972 he co-created the character Ghost Rider, although the exact extent of his contribution and the credit due for that effort was the subject of a 2007 lawsuit, recently concluded. Friedrich would also write for the Atlas/Seaboard line.

Otto Binder was one of the early and most prolific comics writers, coming to the field in the classic fashion of working in early science fiction and on the pulps. He is best known for scripting the original Captain Marvel character, which for a time was the bestselling superhero character in comics. His clients included heavy-hitters in the comics publishing field such as MLJ and EC. He became one of the great and memorable Superman writers in the late 1940s and contributed core elements to that character's narrative "world," a modern mythology based on stories past -- the concept itself being an innovation in mainstream comics of the time. He passed away the same year as Finger, 1974.

The awards will go to the two creators during the Eisner Awards ceremony over Comic-Con weekend in July.
 
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