The Lies Behind The Mask

The Truth Behind the Origin of Batman

Marc Tyler Nobleman talking to Blackman High School's Book Club about his new book.
Photo by Neko Collins
Marc Tyler Nobleman talking to Blackman High School’s Book Club about his new book.

“Batman’s biggest secret is not Bruce Wayne.”

In the past decade, the superhero genre of the fiction world has become a well-known topic. In almost every house, store, school, library or movie theater, you are sure to find some correlation to the superhero fantasy world and our own.

Marc Tyler Nobleman is a fiction author who has written over seventy-five books over the past couple of years.

In his most recent book, Bill The Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, Marc introduced a man named Milton “Bill” Finger, whom he argues deserves credit for creating Batman alongside the current creator Bob Kane.

“Secret identities are for superheroes, not the guys behind them” states Marc at a 2012 TedTalk.

Up until his death on January 18, 1974, Bill Finger’s credit was unknown and limited to a select few like his son, Fredrick Finger, who poured Bill’s ashes in the shape of the Batman symbol.

“I was a ghost. I really was…Bob Kane was using me as a kind of tool all this time to bolster his own paycheck.” stated Bill Finger in his one and only interview.

Marc hopes that with all his efforts, the real “secret identity” of Batman will come to the light.