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Courtesy of Wikipedia, regarding Bill Finger's struggle with Bob Kane, to get the slightest credit for developing Batman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_FingerSCREENWRITER
As a screenwriter, Finger wrote or co-wrote the films Death Comes to Planet Aytin, The Green Slime, and Track of the Moon Beast, and contributed scripts to the TV series' Hawaiian Eye and 77 Sunset Strip.[9] He also cowrote a two-part episode "The Clock King's Crazy Crimes / The Clock King Gets Crowned", airing October 12–13, 1966, in season two of the live-action Batman TV series.[9][55] It was his first public credit for a Batman story.[56]
While there were a lot of reprints of Bill Finger's comics stories on up into the mid and late 1970's in giant issues and LIMITED COLLECTORS' EDITION issues, the last new Bill Finger story I found was in BATMAN 177, Dec 1965.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Batman-1940/Issue-177?id=17791 So Bob Kane never gave Bill Finger
ANY credit while Finger was still alive.
And the Batman TV episode by Finger was almost a year after Finger's last BATMAN comics story.
Finger died in January 1974, at age 59, and while there were many Bill Finger stories reprinted from 1965-1974, the first issue I saw finger given credit was BATMAN 241, May 1972.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Batman-1940/Issue-241?id=17855#34Issue 242 also reprints a golden age Bill Finger story, but doesn't credit Finger, it just says "by Bob Kane".
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Batman-1940/Issue-242?id=17856#27The next issue I saw crediting Finger as writer in reprinted stories is in BATMAN 255, March-April 1974, reprinting "The First Batman" story I linked above.
And BATMAN 256, May-June 1974 (on the stands probably the month he died) and in that issue there are 3 Bill Finger stories reprinted, but only two of them are credited to Finger! The uncredited third one is the last story, "The Secret of Batman Island".
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Batman-1940/Issue-256?id=17870 In DC's defense, the stories were originally uncredited, so it is possible that even the editorial staff reprinting these in the 1964-1980 period didn't know who the writers of the reprinted stories were. It's only over the last 25 years or so that credits of these stories have all been identified and thoroughly indexed.
