26 Facts About Bob Kane

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Bob Kane 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.

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Bob Kane studied art at Cooper Union before "joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in the year of 1934".

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Bob Kane had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings.

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Finger additionally said his suggestions were influenced by Lee Falk's The Phantom, a syndicated newspaper comic strip character with which Bob Kane was familiar as well.

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Bob 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.

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Bob Kane wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate.

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In 1943, Bob Kane left the Batman comic books to focus on penciling the daily Batman newspaper comic strip.

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Bob Kane called me over and said he was going to put a boy in the strip to identify with Batman.

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Bob Kane, who had previously created a sidekick for Peter Pupp, proposed adding a boy named Mercury who would have worn a "super-costume".

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Bob Kane saw that adding a sidekick would enhance the drama.

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Bob Kane brought in a playing card, which we used for a couple of issues for him [the Joker] to use as his playing card.

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Bob Kane can be credited and Bob himself, we all played a role in it.

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Bob Kane wrote the script of that, so he really was co-creator, and Bob and I did the visuals, so Bob was.

14.

Bob Kane, a frequent moviegoer, mentioned that Jean Harlow was a model for the design and added that "I always felt that women were feline".

15.

Bob Kane created the Scarecrow and drew his first appearance, which was scripted by Finger.

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In 1966, Bob Kane retired from DC Comics, choosing to focus on fine art.

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Bob Kane enjoyed a post-comics career in television animation, creating the characters Courageous Cat and Cool McCool, and as a painter showed his work in art galleries, although some of these paintings were produced by ghost artists.

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In 1989, Bob Kane published the autobiography Batman and Me, with an updated edition Batman and Me: The Saga Continues, in 1996.

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Bob Kane worked as a consultant on the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels with directors Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher.

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Bob Kane married his first wife, Beverly, in the 1940s, and the two divorced in 1957.

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Bob Kane married his second wife, actress Elizabeth Sanders Bob Kane, in 1987.

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Bob Kane died November 3,1998, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at age 83.

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Bob Kane is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California.

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Bob Kane was a recipient of the Inkpot Award in 1977, was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.

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Bob Kane was added to the National Comics Awards' Roll of Honour in 1999.

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Bob Kane's work is housed in collections in New York City's Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and St John's University.