Bob Kane: Biography
- He sketched the picture of the man-bat shown to Knox that appears in the first Batman film.(edit)
- The character Alfred Pennyworth was patterned after the servant Bernardo in the Zorro series.(edit)
- When signing a print of Batman and Robin in flight for an old friend, he signed it "Bats Wishes Always".(edit)
- His famous comic book character 'Batman' made his debut in Detective Comics # 27 in May 1939. It is now a collector's classic and a near mint comic book can fetch upto
$ 350,000.(edit) - Traded DC Comics the rights to Batman in a deal to have a byline, "Batman Created By Bob Kane," on every comic that's Batman related.(edit)
- One of the reasons why Batman Gotham Knights was cancled was because of Bob Kane's death.(edit)
- While working under Kane's name, Jerry Robinson co-created the Joker.(edit)
- The year Bob Kane died was the same year that Batman: Gotham Knights(sometimes known as The New Batman Adventures) ended.(edit)
- Bob Kane seized his work on comics in the late-seventies.(edit)
- Fanzing, Issue #12 was made
in rememberance of Bob Kane, shortly after his death.(edit) - Before he was called The Bat-Man, Bob Kane had originally proposed the idea of calling him The Dark Knight, which is why that's his nickname to this date.(edit)
- Bob changed his last name from Kahn to Kane when he turned 18.(edit)
- In 1960, he created the television cartoon Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, a simple piece of self-parody, with Courageous Cat pulling an array of special guns from his costume as easily as Batman would pull weapons from his utility belt. This was followed in 1966 by Cool McCool, about a bumbling secret agent.
(edit) - Bob Kane has said that he believes he would have been happier if he had pursued his preference of humor.(edit)
- It is said that even though Kane didn't create Robin: The Boy Wonder, he made him have a lighter side, since Bob still preferred humorous comics.(edit)
- The Bat-Man was designed by Bill Finger, was based on many ideas. A few being the Zorro films, da Vinci's flying machine sketches, and the Superman figure.
(edit) - Bob Kane and Bill Finger were asked by National Comics to create a second costumed hero to follow the success of Superman. Initially, Bob refused, as he preferred to draw humorous comic strips, but after being told that Jerry Siegel and Jerome Shuster were paid $800 a week for creating Superman, he quickly changed his mind.
(edit) - Bob Kane and Bill Fingers, co-creator of Bat-Man, were classmates in High School.(edit)
- Sam Iger once suggested that Kane "could have been one of the finest humorists of our time if he'd stayed with it".(edit)
- Bob Kane was born in the Bronx.(edit)
- In 1936, he did a humorous filler for a short-lived magazine called Wow!, edited by Sam Iger.
(edit) - Bob Kane's first comic issue with 'The Bat-Man in it was Detective Comics, Issue #27.(edit)
- When Bob Kane did the first issue of the original Detective Comics, Batman was known as 'The Bat-Man.'(edit)
- In an interview, Bob Kane stated, "When I first drew [The Batman], I had eyes in there, and it didn't look right."(edit)
- Although Bob Kane's name is on nearly every Batman comic book, the creators of Superman, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, names are not on most Superman comics.(edit)
- Bob Kane died at the age of 83.(edit)
- Bob Kane wrote an autobiography entitled Batman And Me.(edit)
- Bob Kane's character 'The Batman' was also known as 'The Dark Knight.'(edit)
- Bob Kane recomended Adam West(Batman(1966) and The New Batman Adventures) to play the part of Batman personally.(edit)
- In 1939 he was a freelance artist with a small studio of artists to assist/ghost pencil his work. Among these young comic creators was the writer of the group, Bill Finger. They were hired by Kane, not National and all work to come out of the studio was credited to Bob Kane. When National Comics (eventually DC Comics) editor Vin Sullivan asked him to create the next "Superman", he created a hero called "Birdman". Birdman wore a red outfit with domino mask and wings. It was the suggestion of Finger to make him a "Batman" and to make his costume dark, with a bat cowl and cape. He wrote the first Batman comic and many more. Without Bill Finger there would be no Batman. Yet he died poor and uncredited. Years later Kane expressed regret over this, yet he never allowed Finger to be credited as a co-creator.
(edit) - Bob gave Adam West, who portrayed Batman on the 1960s TV series, a drawing of Batman with the inscription "To my buddy Adam, who breathed life into my pen and ink creation."(edit)
- Bob stated in Cinescape magazine that of all the actors who played Batman, he felt that Val Kilmer did it the best.(edit)
- Kane also created the television cartoon characters Courageous Cat, Minute Mouse and Cool McCool.(edit)
- 'The Batman,' created by Bob Kane, is unlike many comic book heroes, as he has no super-human powers.(edit)
- Although the new series The Batman has the original name, it differs from the comics more than the Batman: The Animated Series version.(edit)
- In the popular DC Animated Universe version of 'Batman', the 'the' is left out. (edit)
- Bob Kane took the first letter of his first name, and the last three letters of his last name to make the name for the character Bane.(edit)
- The character Dukane, was created using Bob Kane's name.(edit)
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