Milton Bill Finger, then a nascent writer working in the same studio as Bob Kane, was one of the first to see the sketches his colleague had drafted to create a new superhero, commenting: I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of... reddish tights, I believe, with boots... no gloves, no gauntlets... with a small domino mask, swinging on a rope. He had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. And under it was a big sign... BAT-MAN. Finger would become a key player in moulding and shaping the character as we would come to know him, but Kane was responsible for birthing the concept of a crimefighter sporting bat-like wings. His general idea was partially inspired by the masked outlaw Zorro among other influences, but Kane also cited a rather surprising source as helping prompt the design of his original drawings. Back in the fifteenth century, Leonardo Da Vinci had taken to studying the flight of birds to determine whether or not it would be possible for human beings to also take to the skies. He designed an ornithopter an aircraft that achieves flight through the flapping of wings comprised of a plank-based device sporting large wings that could be manipulated via a system of pulleys, levers and pedals, and hundreds of years later Kane would incorporate the look into his early sketches.
I watch movies and I watch sport. I also watch movies about sport, and if there were a sport about movies I'd watch that too. The internet was the closest thing I could find.
