The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.
The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
