Shortly afterward, when DC wanted more Batman stories than Kane's studio could deliver, the company assigned Dick Sprang and other in-house pencilers as " ghost artists", drawing uncredited under Kane's supervision. Though Robinson and Roussos worked out of Kane's art studio in The New York Times building, Kane himself did all his drawing at home. Within a year, Kane hired art assistants Jerry Robinson (initially as an inker) and George Roussos (backgrounds artist and letterer). The character debuted in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) and proved a breakout hit. Bill turned him into a scientific detective. I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate. Īccording to Kane, "Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. Comics historian Ron Goulart, in Comic Book Encyclopedia, refers to Batman as the "creation of artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger". Kane, who had already submitted the proposal for Batman at DC and held a contract, is the only person given an official company credit for Batman's creation. ![]() Finger, who said he also devised the character's civilian name, Bruce Wayne, wrote the first Batman story, while Kane provided art. Finger additionally said his suggestions were influenced by Lee Falk's The Phantom, a syndicated newspaper comic strip character with which Kane was familiar as well. įinger said he offered such suggestions as giving the character a cowl and scalloped cape instead of wings adding gloves leaving the mask's eyeholes blank to connote mystery and removing the bright red sections of the original costume, suggesting instead a gray-and-black color scheme. He had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. with a small domino mask, swinging on a rope. I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of. had an idea for a character called 'Batman', and he'd like me to see the drawings. An aspiring writer and part-time shoe salesperson, he had met Kane at a party, and Kane later offered him a job ghost writing the strips Rusty and Clip Carson. Bill Finger joined Bob Kane's nascent studio in 1938. ![]() In response, Bob Kane conceived " the Bat-Man." Kane said his influences for the character included actor Douglas Fairbanks's film portrayal of the swashbuckler Zorro Leonardo da Vinci's diagram of the ornithopter, a flying machine with huge bat-like wings and the 1930 film The Bat Whispers, based on Mary Rinehart's mystery novel The Circular Staircase (1908). In early 1939, DC's success with the seminal superhero Superman in Action Comics prompted editors to scramble for more such heroes. For that last title he went on to do his first adventure strip, "Rusty and his Pals". Kane also produced work through Eisner & Iger for two of the companies that would later merge to form DC Comics, including the humor features "Ginger Snap" in More Fun Comics, "Oscar the Gumshoe" for Detective Comics, and "Professor Doolittle" for Adventure Comics. comic magazine Wags and reprinted in Fiction House's Jumbo Comics. Among his work there was the talking animal feature "Peter Pupp"-which belied its look with overtones of "mystery and menace" -published in the U.K. ![]() The following year, Kane began to work at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger, which was one of the first comic book "packagers" that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during its late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age. He entered the comics field two years later, in 1936, freelancing original material to editor Jerry Iger's comic book Wow, What a Magazine!, including his first pencil and ink work on the serial Hiram Hick. He studied art at Cooper Union before "joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in the year of 1934". ![]() A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future Spirit creator Will Eisner, Robert Kahn graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and then legally changed his name to Robert Kane. His parents, Augusta and Herman Kahn, an engraver, were of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Robert Kahn was born in New York City, New York. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996. Robert Kane ( né Kahn / k ɑː n/ Octo– November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created Batman (with Bill Finger) and most early related characters for DC Comics.
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