San Diego Comic-Con International 2014 -- Panel: Spotlight on Bill Finger, the Co-Creator of Batman:
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2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the movie Batman, the 50th anniversary of Batman's "New Look," the 75th anniversary of Batman's debut, and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Finger, the Caped Crusader's uncredited co-creator. Not only did Bill Finger breathe life into Batman, Robin, Alfred, Commissioner Gordon, Gotham City, and one fantastic villain after another, he co-created bat-free icons such as Green Lantern, Wildcat, and Lana Lang. Bill's only living descendants Athena Finger (The Cape Creator: A Tribute to Bill Finger) and her son Benjamin invite you to celebrate the life and achievements of the man who first put the dark in the Dark Knight. Dr. Travis Langley (Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight) moderates a bat-tastic panel, featuring Bob Kane's biographer Tom Andrae (Batman and Me), writer Mark Evanier (Bill Finger Awards), actress Lee Meriwether (Batman: The Movie's Catwoman), author Marc Tyler Nobleman (Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman), Cartoons Arts' Jens Robinson (son of Joker co-creator Jerry Robinson), and executive producer Michael Uslan (Batman, The Dark Knight film trilogy), plus special messages from legends like DC's last surviving Golden Age artist, Wildcat co-creator Irwin Hasen.
Also called up on stage was Denny O'Neil.
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SDCCP2_140724_002_STITCH.JPG: (left to right) Dr. Travis Langley, Benjamin and Athena Finger, Lee Meriwether, Michael Uslan, Marc Tyler Nobleman, Mark Evanier, Jens Robinson, and Tom Andrae.
SDCCP2_140724_007.JPG: Lee Meriwether and Mark Evanier
SDCCP2_140724_012.JPG: Benjamin and Athena Finger
SDCCP2_140724_020.JPG: Jens Robinson and Tom Andrae
SDCCP2_140724_070.JPG: Travis Langley
SDCCP2_140724_111.JPG: Michael Uslan
SDCCP2_140724_117.JPG: Marc Tyler Nobleman
SDCCP2_140724_301.JPG: Tom Andrae
SDCCP2_140724_349.JPG: Comic book writer Denny O'Neil, who worked with both Marvel and DC and was group editor for the Batman family of books, passed on June 11, 2020. His work on Justice League and Green Arrow in the 1970s finally introduced issues of social justice to comic books -- racism and drugs and other topics were finally acknowledged. He also brought The Batman back to its darker roots in his work with Neal Adams and others.
SDCCP2_140724_404.JPG: Mark Evanier
SDCCP2_140724_496.JPG: (left to right) Marc Tyler Nobleman, Dr. Travis Langley, Michael Uslan, Lee Meriwether, Benjamin and Athena Finger, Mark Evanier, Jens Robinson, Tom Andrae, and Denny O'Neil
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2014 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA),
Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and
my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles).
Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers".
Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.