Jemas?

*ducks*

No reason to duck as far as I'm concerned. Jemas and Quesada brought Marvel back from the dead and made it an interesting place for the first time since Frank Miller left. He's made so mistakes, but IMO they're far outweighed but the good he's done.

There's some musing that DC's corporate hands are legally tied right now, as long as Bob Kane's widow is alive. (Presumably she'd vigorously defend Kane's bogus credit as sole creator?) Once she's shuffled off this mortal coil, DC might much more easily add Finger's name as Batman's co-creator.

Me too.

And maybe Dr. Forklift's name was Bill?

It's kind of disconcerting to read that some of comics' greatest and most iconic "big names" were a bit dick-ish and denied other creators their due credit.

Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead),
Bill Willingham,
Bill Eisner (that's what people used to call him, even if he signed himself "Will"),
and, of course, Bill the Cat (*Ack!*)

And let's hear it for Bill Finger! I read once that Finger kept massive reference files on all kinds of topics, enabling him to spin stories in a wide variety of settings. (I remember one old Batman story, presumably written by Finger, in which part of the solution to a mystery involved Batman identifying a particular type of hammer - a cooper's hammer, to be precise.) Would that more writers nowadays showed an interest in the wider world instead of just rehashing old comics lore.

By the way, Bill (Reed): That's Irwin Hasen, not Hansen.

(To pick an example COMPLETELY at random.)

And I'm havin' trouble comin' up with Bills - At least ones that haven't already been mentioned. There's Bill Morrison. (Bongo Comics, Yellow Submarine)

And a bunch of guys who did comic STRIPS. And, of those, I think Bill Griffith did some comic work way back when.

But that's all I got.

Yeah...I got nothing.

*ducks*