Robert Kane (born Robert Kahn ; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created

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(with Bill Finger) and most early related characters for

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. He was inducted into the

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industry's

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in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.

Early life and work

Robert Kahn was born in

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, New York. His parents, Augusta and Herman Kahn, an engraver, were of

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ish descent. A

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friend of fellow cartoonist and future

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creator

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, Robert Kahn graduated from

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and then legally changed his name to Robert Kane. He studied art at

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before "joining the

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Studio as a trainee animator in the year of 1934".

Comics

He entered the comics field two years later, in 1936, freelancing original material to editor

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''Wow, What a Magazine!'', including his first pencil and ink work on the serial ''Hiram Hick''. The following year, Kane began to work at Iger's subsequent studio,

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, which was one of the first comic book "packagers" that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new

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during its late-1930s and 1940s

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. Among his work there was the

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feature "Peter Pupp"—which belied its look with overtones of "mystery and menace"—published in the U.K. comic magazine ''Wags'' and reprinted in

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's ''

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''. 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 ''

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'', "Oscar the Gumshoe" for ''

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'', and "Professor Doolittle" for '' Adventure Comics''. For that last title he went on to do his first adventure strip, "Rusty and his Pals".

Batman

In early 1939, DC's success with the seminal superhero

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in ''

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'' prompted editors to scramble for more such heroes. In response, Bob Kane conceived " the Bat-Man." Kane said his influences for the character included actor

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' film portrayal of the

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;

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's diagram of the

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, a flying machine with huge bat-like wings; and the 1930 film ''

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'', based on Mary Rinehart's mystery novel ''

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'' (1908).

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joined Bob Kane's nascent studio in 1938. An aspiring writer and part-time shoe salesperson, he had met Kane at a party, and Kane later offered him a job

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the strips ''Rusty'' and ''Clip Carson''. He recalled that Kane Finger 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. Finger additionally said his suggestions were influenced by

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's ''

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'', a syndicated

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character with which Kane was familiar as well. Finger, who said he also devised the character's civilian name,

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, wrote the first Batman story, while Kane provided art. 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. Comics historian

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, in ''Comic Book Encyclopedia'', refers to Batman as the "creation of artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger". According to Kane, "Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate ... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective. The character debuted in ''Detective Comics'' #27 (May 1939) and proved a breakout hit. Within a year, Kane hired art assistants

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(initially as an inker) and

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(backgrounds artist and

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). 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. Shortly afterward, when DC wanted more Batman stories than Kane's studio could deliver, the company assigned

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and other in-house pencilers as " ghost artists", drawing uncredited under Kane's supervision. Future ''Justice League'' writer

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wrote some early scripts, including the two-part story "The Monk" that introduced some of The Batman's first "Bat-" equipment. In 1943, Kane left the Batman comic books to focus on penciling the daily ''Batman'' newspaper comic strip. DC Comics artists ghosting the comic-book stories now included Jack Burnley and

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, with Robinson moving up as penciler and

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contributing some covers. After the strip finished in 1946, Kane returned to the comic books but, unknown to DC, had hired his own personal ghosts, including

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interview, ''Alter Ego'' #51 (Aug. 2005) and

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from 1953 to 1967.

Robin

Bill Finger recalled that Kane, who had previously created a sidekick for Peter Pupp, proposed adding a boy named Mercury who would have worn a "super-costume". Robinson suggested a normal human, along with the name " Robin", after

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books he had read during boyhood, and noting in a 2005 interview he had been inspired by one book's

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illustrations. The new character, an orphaned circus performer named

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, came to live with Bruce Wayne as his young

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in ''Detective Comics'' #38 (April 1940) and would inspire many similar sidekicks throughout the Golden Age of comic books.

The Joker

Batman's nemesis the Joker was introduced near that same time, in ''Batman'' #1 (Spring 1940). Credit for that character's creation is disputed. Kane's position is that Robinson, whose original Joker playing card was on public display in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the

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in New York City, New York, from September 16, 2006 to January 28, 2007, and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in

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from October 24, 2004 to August 28, 2005, has countered that: Robinson added, however, "If you read the Batman historian . NelsonBridwell, he had one interview where he interviewed Bill Finger and he said no, the Joker was created by me—an acknowledgement. He can be credited and Bob himself, we all played a role in it. ... He wrote the script of that, so he really was co-creator, and Bob and I did the visuals, so Bob was also."

Other characters

According to comics historian

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, "nearly everyone seems to agree that

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was Kane's brainchild exclusively".

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, originally introduced by Kane with no costume as "the Cat", was partially inspired by his cousin, Ruth Steel. Kane, a frequent moviegoer, mentioned that

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was a model for the design and added that "I always felt that women were feline".Daniels, Les, ''Batman: The Complete History'', Chronicle Books, 1999, p. 42. Kane created the

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and drew his first appearance, which was scripted by Finger. Kane also created the original incarnation of Clayface. According to Kane, he drew

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after being inspired by the then advertising mascot of

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cigarettes—a

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with a top hat and cane. Finger, however, claimed that he created the villain as a caricature of the aristocratic type, because "stuffy English gentlemen" reminded him of emperor penguins.

Later life and career

In 1966, Kane retired from DC Comics, choosing to focus on

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. As Kane's comic-book work tapered off in the 1960s, he parlayed his Batman status into minor celebrity. He enjoyed a post-comics career in

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, creating the characters Courageous Cat and Cool McCool, and as a painter showed his work in

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, although some of these paintings were produced by ghost artists. DC Comics named Kane in 1985 as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication ''

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''. In 1989, Kane published the autobiography ''

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'', with an updated edition ''Batman and Me: The Saga Continues'', in 1996. Kane worked as a consultant on the 1989 film ''

'' and its three sequels with directors

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and

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. Stan Lee interviewed Kane in the documentary series ''

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''.

Personal life

Kane married his first wife, Beverly, in the 1940s, and the two divorced in 1957. They had a daughter, Deborah. Kane married his second wife, actress Elizabeth Sanders Kane, in 1987. Kane died November 3, 1998, at

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in Los Angeles, at age 83. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the

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of Los Angeles, California.

Awards and honors

Kane was a recipient of the

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in 1977, was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996. He was added to the

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' Roll of Honour in 1999. On October 21, 2015, for his work in motion pictures, he posthumously received a star on the

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, at 6764

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. Kane's work is housed in collections in New York City's

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, and St. John's University.

References

External links

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''Comic Book Artist'' #3 (Winter 1999): "The Bob Kane Letter"
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