9 Mind Blowing "What If?" Scenarios That Almost Changed Comics Forever

8. Bill Finger Doesn't Change Bob Kane's Batman Concept

Although Bill Finger has finally started to get his name on Batman stuff again, it's come 75 years too late. The writer, who was very much the unsung hero of DC's heyday, created pretty much everything we know and love about the character today, right down to the iconic Batsuit itself.

He came up with the name, the city, the villains (along with Jerry Robinson), the motif - all of it. We have the Batman we have today because of Bill Finger, and yet his onetime collaborator (some would say exploiter) Bob Kane raked in all the plaudits for a staggeringly long amount of time. When Finger died in 1974 at the age of 59, the world didn't know who he was. Kane waited literal years to acknowledge his involvement in creating the world's most popular superhero.

And yet, somewhere, out there, there exists a reality where Finger never got involved with that creative process. Batman would've sported a red and black suit with mechanical wings, Bruce Wayne wouldn't exist (neither would most of his villains), and there's every chance that he wouldn't become a popular superhero either, so integral was Finger to the character's success.

For more on Bill Finger, be sure to watch Batman & Bill, a documentary based on Marc Tyler Nobleman's book, Bill the Boy Wonder.