Best of the blog 2012

This blog launched on 2/19/08.

Every February 19, I share what I feel have been the best posts of the previous twelve months.

This year's winners: 

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the big reveals in Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman Bill Finger's first sister is not in Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman what else is not in Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman delivering Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman to Charles Sinclair and Carmine Infantino, two men who were hugely helpful during researchwhy I am now the only known person with a sample of Bill Finger's handwriting the only two known surviving letters Bill Finger wrote how Bill Finger almost made the credits of the 1989 Batman film what Bill Finger did, what Bob Kane did not do  Bill Finger's death certificate Bob Kane's niece doesn't like my Bill Finger story speaking meeting a little girl who vanished...and who is in my book Vanished reactions to my Nevada Reading Week Conference keynote...and Thirty Minutes Over Oregon my TED talk on Bill Finger  mysterious doors at a writers' conference  what I take to school visits: an evolution  promotion Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman reviews  Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman book trailerbehind Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman book trailer  NPR's All Things Considered covers Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman  "Call Bill Finger" (to the tune of "Call Me Maybe")  giving fans the Finger at Comic-Con International winners of contest to describe Bill Finger's legacy in exactly six words authors vs. kids beach volleyball at the Martha's Vineyard Children's Book Fair will The Dark Knight Rises bring people to Bill the Boy Wonder? why I honored my "Batman commitments" the day of The Dark Knight Rises cinema shooting publishing 
 
a book that inspired a blog that inspired a book that inspired a blog a Beethoven-Justin Bieber duet types of book titles I avoid using  miscellaneous first assembly at Sandy Hook Elementary after the tragedy first picture book author on Easter Island? authors dressed as superheroes a letter from Destiny Boys of Steel vs. Bill the Boy Wonder chart  comics creators action figures  Boys of Steel: The Movie ? the $130 check that bought Superman in the Age of Unenlightment Superman = Springsteen, Batman = Bon Jovi how might Bill Finger react to DC reinventing one of his characters as gay? comic books that stayed with me from youth...and a Boy of Steel surprise using Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman in the classroom   Harry and the Terrible Whatzit the closest I came to Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel (without realizing it at first)  the Sea World reunion I (indirectly) inspireda Super Friends voice actor meets his fans for the first time   a Captain Marvel meets the fans he didn't know he had
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