http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/55486/batman-1%e2%80%94the-ultimate-batman-comic/ http://sequart.org/magazine/55486/batman-1%e2%80%94the-ultimate-batman-comic/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:00:57 +0000 James Kelly http://sequart.org/?p=55486 Batman's co-creator Bill Finger crafted in 32 pages every single tone and approach to his character that would follow in 75 years. Batman #1 is the single greatest Batman comic ever produced. [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/38722/bill-finger%e2%80%99s-quest-for-a-google-doodle/ http://sequart.org/magazine/38722/bill-finger%e2%80%99s-quest-for-a-google-doodle/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:14:04 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=38722 This February 8th is an historic date in the comics history: the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Finger (and coincidentally, this year marks the 40th anniversary of his death and the 75th anniversary… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/15339/bill-finger-batman-and-the-future-of-america/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15339/bill-finger-batman-and-the-future-of-america/#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:00:21 +0000 Mike Greear http://sequart.org/?p=15339 New York City, 1938. A young cartoonist named Bob Kane is attending a party where he serendipitously crosses paths with a fellow Dewitt Clinton High School alumni by the name of Bill Finger. Kane had… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/14429/the-year-in-comics-week-31-the-batman-of-three-worlds-by-bill-finger-sheldon-moldoff-1963/ http://sequart.org/magazine/14429/the-year-in-comics-week-31-the-batman-of-three-worlds-by-bill-finger-sheldon-moldoff-1963/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:15:56 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=14429 It’s not so long ago that the very idea would have sounded thoroughly absurd. Yet, the Batman tales of the late ’50s and early ’60s by editor Jack Schiff, writer Bill Finger, and penciler Sheldon… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/10070/the-year-in-comics-week-six-on-bill-finger-wayne-boring%e2%80%99s-the-girl-in-superman%e2%80%99s-past/ http://sequart.org/magazine/10070/the-year-in-comics-week-six-on-bill-finger-wayne-boring%e2%80%99s-the-girl-in-superman%e2%80%99s-past/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:53 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=10070 It’s hard to tell at first from looking that the Clark Kent of 1959’s “The Girl In Superman’s Past” is desperately in love. Yet despite the absence of the typical signs of comic-book romantic longing… [more]]]> 0