Next week at Comic-Con, Ralph Newman will posthumously be receiving The Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing — an event which has caused an awful lot of comic book historians to ask, "Who the hell was Ralph Newman?" Well, that's kind of the point of The Bill Finger Award. It's to throw some recognition at men and women who did a lot of writing for comic books and didn't receive enough attention, enough money or both. Do you wanna know who Ralph Newman was? Well then, you'll have to read this.