Editing Bill Finger (section)

====Batman villains====
Finger provided an account  on the creation of Joker in 1966, though admittedly unsure if it was Robinson or Kane who initiated the initial concept:

{{Blockquote | style=font-size:100% |I got a call from Bob Kane&nbsp;... He had a new villain. When I arrived he was holding a playing card. Apparently Jerry Robinson or Bob, I don't recall who, looked at the card and they had an idea for a character&nbsp;... the Joker. Bob made a rough sketch of it. At first it didn't look much like the Joker. It looked more like a clown. But I remembered that [[Grosset & Dunlap]] formerly issued very cheap editions of classics by [[Alexandre Dumas]] and [[Victor Hugo]]&nbsp;... The volume I had was ''[[The Man Who Laughs]]''&nbsp;— his face had been permanently operated on so that he will always have this perpetual grin. And it looked absolutely weird. I cut the picture out of the book and gave it to Bob, who drew the profile and gave it a more sinister aspect. Then he worked on the face; made him look a little clown-like, which accounted for his white face, red lips, green hair. And that was the Joker!<ref name="Batmania 14">Finger in a panel discussion at [[Academy Con|New York Academy Convention]], August 14, 1966, transcribed in {{Cite journal|last1=Hanerfeld|first1=Mark|title=Con-Tinued|journal=Batmania|date=February 14, 1967|volume=1|issue=14|pages=8–9|url=http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=11970|access-date= August 1, 2017}} Page 8 [https://web.archive.org/web/20170817231436/http://images.furycomics.com/viewer/c3/c3383c064c6f811b7157c83a5fd71119/7.jpg archived] and Page 9 [https://web.archive.org/web/20170817231621/http://images.furycomics.com/viewer/c3/c3383c064c6f811b7157c83a5fd71119/8.jpg archived] from the originals on August 17, 2017.</ref>}}

Finger also asserted that the creation of [[Penguin (comics)|Penguin]] was fully his in the same interview, outright refuting Kane's claims:
{{Blockquote | style=font-size:100% |Oh, he never came off a package of [[Kool (cigarette)|Kools]]...I happened to be looking at an old copy of the old ''[[The Saturday Evening Post|Saturday Evening Post]]'' that had an article on the [[Emperor Penguin]]. It had photographs of Emperor Penguins waddling about. To me they looked exactly like portly Englishmen on their way to their private clubs. Naturally when you think of an Englishman, you think of the perpetual umbrella. So, I decided to make a character who...well, it can't be just an umbrella. I decided to gimmick them. I gave him a tophat, make him looking like the Englishman, and gave him a thousand umbrellas, gimmicked. Alas, we have the Penguin.<ref name="Batmania 15">Finger in a panel discussion at [[Academy Con|New York Academy Convention]], August 14, 1966, transcribed in {{Cite journal|last1=Hanerfeld|first1=Mark|title=Con-Tinued|journal=Batmania|date=February 14, 1967|volume=1|issue=14|pages=8–9|url=http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=11970|access-date= August 1, 2017}} Page 9 [https://web.archive.org/web/20170817231621/http://images.furycomics.com/viewer/c3/c3383c064c6f811b7157c83a5fd71119/8.jpg archived] from the originals on August 17, 2017.</ref>}}

Finger created the [[Scarecrow (DC Comics)|Scarecrow]] and it is believed that Kane penciled his first appearance.<ref name=Daniels55 /> Kane created [[Two-Face]] and Finger expanded his characterization in the first script for ''Detective Comics'' #66 (Aug. 1942).<ref>Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 41: "The nightmarish Two-Face debuted as Batman's antagonist in this story by writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane."</ref> The [[Riddler]] was created by Finger and designed by [[Dick Sprang]] in issue #140 (Oct. 1948).<ref name=Daniels55>Daniels, p. 55.</ref><ref>Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 59: "The Riddler debuted as a perplexing foe of Batman in a story by writer Bill Finger and designed by Dick Sprang."</ref> The [[Calendar Man]] was another villain created by Finger without input from Kane.<ref>{{Cite book|last= Wallace|first=Daniel|contribution=Calendar Man|editor-last=Dougall|editor-first= Alastair|title= The DC Comics Encyclopedia|page= 65|publisher= [[Dorling Kindersley]]|year= 2008|location= London, United Kingdom|isbn=978-0-7566-4119-1|oclc=213309017}}</ref>