Considered the co-creator of Batman for decades, DC Entertainment has announced that Bill Finger is finally going to start getting the credit he deserves in all future film and television work featuring the characters he worked on (he also co-created Green Lantern). Finger died in 1974, and while Bob Kane has received sole official credit for creating Batman since 1939, he's acknowledged on numerous occassion that, "Bill never received the fame and recognition he deserved." Robin, Catwoman, and The Joker are among the characters Finger co-created, while he was also responsible for coming up with the names for Bruce Wayne and Gotham City. This is obviously long overdue then, and Warner Bros. issued the following statement to The Hollywood Reporter:
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