So it struck me as odd to learn almost in passing at a convention I recently attended of this detail of the bench in front of Poe’s last home. I’ve been a fan of the mythos for more than four decades. Batman: Nevermore, 2003.)īatman’s costume is the first I remember wearing for Halloween (at some point before 1970). reprinted Detective Comics № 417, Nov 1971. Batman’s computer system is, from time to time, nicknamed “Dupin” and Poe sometimes appears as a fellow investigator in the Batman universe (“The Mystery That Edgar Allan Poe Solved” – Gang Busters № 49, Dec 1955/Jan 1956. The author who inspired him was abused and disparaged by jealous peers. The former died in poverty and relative obscurity. Finger is still being rebuilt.īoth Finger and Poe might have recognized in each other kindred spirits. It wasn’t until 1989, fifteen years after the man he then called ‘friend’, did Bob Kane begin to admit how essential Finger had been. The names “Bruce Wayne”, “Gotham City”, and the epithet “The Dark Knight” are now all attributed to Bill Finger. Finger provided the origin for Batman six months later. His co-creator had been responsible for writing the first story ( Detective Comics № 27, May 1939). Kane went on to fame within the comic book industry. Doctor Watson compares Sherlock Holmes with Dupin in their very first adventure (“A Study in Scarlet”, 1887). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is quoted as having given credit to Poe for inventing the detective genre. Auguste Dupin, who has been on my mind while developing Astral. They may not have known about the man-bats on the Moon but they were undoubtedly aware of Poe’s creation – C. The two men inspired there were Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn) and Milton “Bill” Finger – the creators of Batman. The deservedly famous and still sometimes unfortunately maligned author had made his home in that modest setting during the last years of his life. He also served as editor for Edgar Allan Poe, who claimed the story was essentially plagiarized from his own “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall”.Ī little more than a century later, two men sat discussing fiction of their own on a bench near The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (2640 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY). Richard Adams Locke, an editor for the newspaper, revealed himself as the author five years later. Belief in what turned out to be a hoax was widespread. In the summer of 1835, The Sun (of New York) published a series of articles that purported to describe scientific discoveries of a civilization of bat-winged humanoids on the Moon.
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