More black and white goodness!

[Cobblepot]

 

[BatScot]

It's about time we got a version of Finger's Bat-man!

 

[keith_v]

I tink the Frank Miller one may be the best yet.

 

[Cobblepot]

I'm so crossing my fingers for a Norm Breyfogle statue!

 

[Comic Book Boy]

It's about time we got a version of Finger's Bat-man!

Bill Finger was a writer, not an artist.

That is the Bob Kane style Batman. Or should I say, "The Bat-Man?"

 

[etrigan69]

I just went a little bit in my pants.......

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/3043/dsc09228ih2.jpg

 

[SHADOWBAT69]

the Miller statue is nice. However, did you all know that its going to be $40 more than the other B&W statues?

 

[BatScot]

Bill Finger was a writer, not an artist.

The fact that Finger was a writer does not preclude his ability to define a visual style; a visual style can be defined by a descriptive reference and a skilled writer has no less ability to create an image than does an artist.

For example, if I ask you to draw a circle and tell you to put two dots in the top half and a up-turned curve in the bottom and color the inside yellow can you really claim to have defined the end result just because you drew it

That is the Bob Kane style Batman.

What is "the Bob Kane style"?

Bob Kane took Bill Finger’s descriptive references and applied those ideas to visuals that Kane swiped from other artists.

Hal Foster’s Tarzan...

… becomes the BatMan

… reworked by Kane to incorporate Finger’s iconography

… eventually resulting in this ^ sculpture (which owes far more to Finger and Foster than it does to Kane).

This:

… is "the Bob Kane style" Batman, and even that’s a swipe

... of Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon!

There is no ‘Bob Kane style’ because so very little of Batman’s most iconographic elements can wholly be attributed to Kane himself.