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Bill Finger Gets His First On Screen Batman Credit In A Surprising Place

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So a couple of nights ago, Adult Swim aired the Robot Chicken: DC Special III, all approved and signed off by DC Entertainment.c2

Yes, even that. And the Penguin Robin crotch-gaze fantasy sequence. c3

It was only a few years ago that DC Comics wouldn't even let Mike Allred have Batman do the Bat-usi on the cover of the Solo series…

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Though things later changed.

And now Lex Luthor – all of him – do Magic Mike, with the full co-operation of Geoff Johns.

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And if you wanted the answer to the question "whatever happened to JT Krul", here's your answer, along with the other all-male line of writers.

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There's also the long list of credits for character creation. Hoping that Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway and Scott Shaw got something for this – as opposed to the bupkiss they got for Captain Carrot in Multiversity….
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But near the top is the first on-screen credit for Bill Finger as the co-creator of Batman.

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Not sure he would ave expected it to first appear somewhere like this show though…

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