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One you find out that a guy has literally 27 assistants helping out–it doesn't seem quite as impressive." Todd McFarlane on Detective Comics for DC Comics While Todd himself has his work on Batman Year Two reused by either the last person – or the first person – you'd expect. Comics Scene cover by Bob Kane A cover for[...]

Bob Kane, co-creator of Batman (and for decades credited as the sole creator of Batman, thanks to the kind of deal with DC Comics that they would never give to others), lived to both see and benefit from the success of the character Indeed, he was one of the most financially successful comic book creators[...]

Joe Kubert and Jaime Hernandez,  Dave Gibbons and Jack Kirby, as well as the likes of Bob Kane and Joe Orlando, Murphy Anderson, Ramona Fradon, Gil Kane, Jim Steranko, and Gene Colan, Michael Kaluta, P Craig Russell, Jim Starlin, Jim Aparo, and Frank Thorne, Bill Sienkiewicz, Matt Wagner, Howard Chaykin, and Brian Bolland. History Of DC[...]

The Batman stories in the issue were scripted by Bill Finger and drawn by Bob Kane, with art assistance from Jerry Robinson and Sheldon Moldoff. Batman #1 CGC 9.4, 1940 from DC Comics.   By way of comparison, an Action Comics #1 CGC 9.0 sold for $3,207,852 in 2014 — a record for any comic book.  This Batman #1[...]

The Batman stories in the issue were scripted by Bill Finger and drawn by Bob Kane, with art assistance from Jerry Robinson and Sheldon Moldoff. Batman #1 CGC 9.4, 1940 from DC Comics. Batman #1 had an on-sale date of April 24, 1940 according to Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries Periodical records for that year[...]

The actual amount of creative input Bob Kane had into the creation of Batman has been up for dispute for some time Indeed, the image used on this lithograph drawn in his final years, was mostly swiped from Todd McFarlane. But it's still Bob Kane It's signed by him And for Batman's 80th Anniversary, you could[...]

Vintage comic book anniversary milestones are my very favorite kind of nerd holiday.  I'm not much of a convention guy (yeah... I know, I know), and of

Bill Finger may have gotten the shaft while he was alive, denied credit for co-creating Batman for decades thanks to a deal Bob Kane made with DC Comics specifically prohibiting it, but at least the world has been trying to make things right lately. It was in 2015 that Finger first began receiving credit for co-creating[...]

Bob Kane is credited for creating Batman in 1939 But there is a lot more to the story and it involved a man named Bill Finger, a struggling writer who helped Kane refine the initial idea and make it into one of the most popular characters in all of comics/literature/film A new documentary, Batman &[...]

 The comic book which has a November 1939 cover date and hit the newsstand at the end of September, shows Batman's origin for the first time in a story by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Sheldon Moldoff. There are currently three copies graded CGC 8.0 on the CGC Census, two copies in 9.0, and the sole highest-graded[...]

Giella had the fortune of working with Bob Kane, and genuinely enjoyed his experiences with him He regaled us with a particular Kane story that many people may not know Back before Kane retired from DC comics, he used to have a TV program where he would draw various Batman characters Giella was actually a[...]

We ran the rumour that this would be happening in the comics, as well as in the TV and movies. And in the preview to the Dark Knight III: The Atom mini-comic, we got its first sighting. Such a credit could only have been arranged with the cooperation of the Bob Kane estate. Although they also managed to[...]

Early today the news broke by press release to DC Comics' media partner The Hollywood Reporter that writer and co-creator of Batman, Bill Finger, was to get official credit for his contribution creating the character of Batman, and his world, in both the Gotham TV series and the Batman Vs Superman movie. As part of the original Batman deal from[...]

For the fast approaching Batman Day, September 26th, DC has released these 8-bit gifs showcasing classic Batman Covers including Batman #1 by Bob Kane, he Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Batman #9 by Jack Bumley. For the fast approaching Batman Day, September 26th, DC has released these 8-bit gifs showcasing classic[...]

Gilbert, Jim Starlin, Joe Kubert, Arthur Adams, Walter Simonson, Paul Norris, Mike Grell, Mary Wilshire, Andy Kubert, Gil Kane, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bob Kane, Curt Swan, George Pérez, Howard Chaykin, Jan Duursema, Carmine Infantino, Jim Steranko, Gray Morrow, Neal Adams, Murphy Anderson, Dave Gibbons, Gilbert Hernandez, Dan Spiegle, Frank Thorne, Ramona Fradon, Matt Wagner, Ernie Colon, Irwin[...]

Bill Finger said that he used The Shadow and other pulp characters for inspiration when creating Batman with Bob Kane and even used one of the Shadow pulp novels, Partners In Peril by Theodore Tinsley as the basis for Batman's first adventure In the early Batman comics we see the character written in more of[...]

Jerry Robinson also sold a very significant personal collection before his passing, as another example. Which brings us to Bob Kane's file copies of Detective Comics #27-45 and Batman #1-3, now up for auction at ComicConnect Kane has become a controversial figure in comics history as more and more information has circulated about the contribution of[...]

Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson, former Robin Chris O'Donnell, Big Bang Theories Jim Parsons, Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe,  upcoming Ant-Man Paul Rudd and Batman creator Bob Kane. The categories are Motion Picture, Television, Recording, Radio and Live Performance/Live Theater… Kane is getting his for motion pictures A shame there is no Comic Book[...]

Sprang began drawing the Dark Knight's adventures in 1943 but as was the case he was a ghost artist and credit went to Bob Kane In 1955 he replaced Curt Swan as the regular artist for the Superman/Batman stories in World's Finest until his retirement in 1963. One off the stories Spran drew, Joker's Millions, was adapted[...]

Schwartz said, "My boy, what have you got?" and the only thing he could think of was to "take it back to the beginning", and ask himself, "What did Bob Kane and Bill Finger start with?",  but he also had a concern to "add to that the expertise of language of comics as it had[...]

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He was recently the subject of the book Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman. However, due to original agreements between the publisher and the credited creator of Batman, Bob Kane, he is never credited as such by DC Comics and he died penniless and unknown outside of committed fans In comparison, Bob Kane and[...]

It could be said that Batman has often coasted by on the mystique of his persona—but that concept wasn't oversaturated during the Bob Kane era Batman looked the part, sure, but his early stories often amounted to sensationalized versions of other detective tales Batman was never going to wow anyone punching through bricks, so his[...]

But, does one creation, even as great as this earn them two spots out of four? It's not like you can separate one from the other. Bob Kane – Batman may be the single most popular comic character ever created He's been the lead of multiple movies, television and animation series, toys, t-shits, etc It's been[...]

I'm sure Bob Kane would have come up with a few more things… but this is pretty funny. You can see the rest here. Rich adds: Of course there are yet more controversies over the original inspiration for Batman, namely Frank D Foster in 1982, creating Batman and Night-Wing…    These first Batman drawings by Frank Foster are[...]

He just did so many things at the beginning, … creating almost all the other characters, … the whole persona, the whole temper." – Jerry Robinson (Creator of the Joker) "The Darknight [sic] Detective debuted in [Detective] #27, the creation of Bob Kane and Bill Finger." – Paul Levitz (Writer And Former DC Comics President) "Now that[...]

Marc Tyler Nobleman is an author and comics historian who has written  Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman with illustration by Ross MacDonald,

I found this in the corner of one of his storage rooms…" That's a Joker art piece, personalised to the CEO in question, and signed by Bob Kane. "My CEO collects comic books and art I found this in the corner of one of his storage rooms…" That's a Joker art piece, personalised to the CEO in[...]

But one early viewer noticed something they thought Bleeding Cool might be interested in. And they were right. Ever since Bob Kane negotiated himself a rather exceptional deal with DC Comics, he has been credited on every appearance of the character with the legend "Batman created by Bob Kane" even though many of the contemporary and successive[...]

Marc Tyler Nobleman is the author of Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, looking to raise the prominense of Bill Finger and his