Early life and work
Robert Kahn was born in New York City, New York. His parents, Augusta and Herman Kahn, an engraver,[1] were of Eastern European Jewish descent.[2] A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future Spirit creator Will Eisner,[3] Robert Kahn graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and then legally changed his name to Bob Kane.[4] He studied art at Cooper Union before "joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in 1934".[5]Comics
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.[6] 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. Among his work there was the funny animal feature "Peter Pupp" — which belied its look with overtones of "mystery and menace"[6] — published in the U.K. comic magazine Wags and reprinted in Fiction House's Jumbo comics. 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. For that last title he went on to do his first adventure strip, "Rusty and his Pals".Batman
Detective Comics #27 (May 1939). The first appearance of Batman. Art by Bob Kane.
Bill Finger 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 ghost writing the strips Rusty and Clip Carson.[9][10] He recalled that Kane
...had an idea for a character called 'Batman', and he'd like me to see the drawings. I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of ... reddish tights, I believe, with boots ... no gloves, no gauntlets ... with a small domino mask, swinging on a rope. He had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. And under it was a big sign ... BATMAN.[10]
[WIKPEDIA]..
KANE, IS, BATMAN.
[SEE MY OTHER BLOGGER]..KANE, THE CITIZEN?..OF?...
GOT HAM CITY...HAHAHA!
KANE,CLAIMED,IT,WAS, HIS, IDEA...BUT....
THE FAMOUS, 'MOON-MEN', HOAX,OF, THE 19TH CENTURY...?
Edgar Allan Poe claimed the story was a plagiarism of his earlier work The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall. His editor at the time was Richard Adams Locke. He later published "The Balloon-Hoax" in the same newspaper.
AND,GOING BACK EARLIER STILL...
'MERCURIUS DUPLEX'..APPEARED,IN,EUROPEAN, ALCHEMY...
SO,WHAT,BATMAN?...
'ROBIN',HIS,SIDEKICK, I, HAVE, SHOWN, IS, ACTUALLY,CANNABIS...
[SEE; MY, OTHER, BLOGGER]
BUT, MAYBE, IT'S, JUST, SOME,'EASTERN' THING?...
[WINGED BUDDHA]......
JEWISH,GUYS, AND, THEIR,IMAGINATION!..HA HA!...
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN, DUDE.
QUICK! INTO,THE BATCAVE...NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ....HA HAH!
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