Sep 28, 2025
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Blogging this not just to share this video, which is really cool and kinda like the old “Stickman Wars” videos mixed with The Thing, but also to say I found it via looking up the creator’s Youtube page to see what else he’d made after seeing his Game Grumps Animated.
The point of this being that, this is why you source the stuff of other folks you show online. Because, if you think this one piece is cool enough to show off, you at least owe both the audience and the artist the courtesy to let people discover what other cool stuff they have to offer...
Friends with Bakugou | My Hero Academia Comic DubOriginal Comic Creator: Garbageisland-0 https://garbageisland-0.tumblr.com/
Friends with Bakugo by @garbageisland-0
Kirishima Eats Chapstick | MHA Comic DubKirishima eats Bakugo's Chapstick\Original Comic Creator- Swallo https://swallo-kudasai.tumblr.com/Keith's Café Loung...
Kirishima and the Chapstick by @swallo-kudasai
Pretty much what the caption says. A man named Frank Foster claimed that he, not Bob Kane and Bill Finger, created Batman years before any other superhero came into being, and that DC Comics plagiarized his work twice: not only for Kane and Finger’s eventual Batman, but also for an early Spicy Mystery Stories pulp yarn called “Batman” (about a man who believed his brain got transplanted into a bat’s body and had all sorts of sexual misadventures). Foster’s son was absolutely convinced that DC robbed his father blind, even setting up a website and granting interviews where he argued his father’s case.
There’s just one small problem with Foster’s claims: nothing he says lines up with comic book history as we know it.
The alleged date on his Batman concept art in 1932, which predates the existence of comic books in any form by at least one year. Also, Foster claimed that he was inspired by seeing costumed heroes flying around...well, that didn’t happen until 1938, when the late, great Superman made his debut (and that character was created in 1934 and shopped around for years before DC give him a go). And costumed superheroes in general didn’t start up proper until Lee Falk and Ray Moore’s Phantom launched in 1936. Unless Foster was looking to Buck Rogers as a flying costumed hero, there isn’t any way his timeline holds water.
Also, given that Foster’s claims came decades after Kane and Finger’s Batman debuted (and well after Kane cheated Finger out of credit and royalties), why did he wait so long to contest the character’s authorship? And why, if he was pals with Al Capp as he claimed, did he not use Capp as a witness to his supposed creation of Batman? Why would DC look to a quartet of crappy concept sketches by a freelancer when they already had Kane and Finger on staff to create a bat-themed hero? And most of all, why does Foster’s alleged Batman look nothing at all like a bat? I mean, this is admittedly not a realistic bat costume:
But you can see where it looks bat-like, if in a stylized way. Foster’s art has nothing about it that says “bat.” So again, why would DC look to a concept design that doesn’t even attempt anything bat-like?
It also doesn't help that comic book historians don’t even know who Foster was, or what he even did. Gerard Jones, back when he was still a respected comic book writer and historian -- and well before his outing as a pedophile -- dismissed Foster’s claims altogether for lack of evidence and the multiple holes in his timeline. (I regret to admit that I was the one who brought Foster to Jones’ attention.) And the lack of any documentation of Foster’s supposed comics work pretty much cements that he wasn’t telling the truth. Given how infamous Bob Kane’s thievery and backstabbing was and how long it took to finally give Bill Finger co-creator credit, how could Kane allegedly stealing the very concept of Batman from someone else never have been discovered? There’s no way anything like that would have stayed hidden.
If Foster was hoping to wring some glory from Batman’s endurance as an icon...not only was he too little, too late, but the man couldn't even tell a convincing lie.
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