Bob Kane

"There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bills scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman."

"Bill Finger and I created the Joker. Bill was the writer. Jerry Robinson came to me with a playing card of the Joker. Thats the way I sum it up. [The Joker] looks like Conrad Veidt — you know, the actor in The Man Who Laughs, [the 1928 movie based on the novel] by Victor Hugo. … Bill Finger had a book with a photograph of Conrad Veidt and showed it to me and said, Heres the Joker. Jerry Robinson had absolutely nothing to do with it. But hell always say he created it till he dies. He brought in a playing card, which we used for a couple of issues for him [the Joker] to use as his playing card"."

"Bob and I got on very well during the years I worked on Batman. He was a mild-mannered individual who made no demands on Jerry [Robinson] and me, and in general, he was terrific to work for."

"A lot of people dont give him [Kane] as much credit for his art, but I thought he had a flair. It was rudimentary, but in a way that worked to his benefit in the strip. He didnt know much about perspective and anatomy, so he had to improvise."

"Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate … I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective."