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	Bob Kane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bob Kane (October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book artist who is known well as the creator of Batman, although many feel that Bill Finger should be unofficially acknowledged as the co-creator of the character.
		Kane, the more business-savvy of the Kane-Finger creative team, negotiated a contract with National, signing away any ownership that he might have in the character in exchange for, among other compensations, a mandatory byline on all Batman comics stating "Batman created by Bob Kane", regardless of whether he was involved in the specific issue.
		Kane's major contributions to Batman were in the 1940s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Kane (727 words)

	TMe:Bob Kane Dies at 83
		"Bob Kane is a giant in the field of popular culture, one of a handful of people who launched the comic book industry and who gave the world a group of characters so colorful and inventive that they continue to captivate every new generation," said Jenette Kahn, president and editor in chief of DC Comics.
		The background is well-known to fans of Kane and Batman: Teenager Bruce Wayne, traumatized by witnessing his parents' murder, vows to avenge their deaths and uses his vast fortune to study criminology, perfect his athletic body and acquire clever vehicles and weapons to fight crime in his hometown of Gotham.
		Kane, who changed his surname from Kahn early in his career, assembled a staff to work with him on the comic strip, but remained the principal artist through the 1940s and closely supervised the work for many years after that.
	www.teako170.com /kane.html (748 words)

	BBC News \| Americas \| Batman creator dies at 83
		Bob Kane, the comic book artist and writer who created Batman for DC comics while still in his teens, has died at the age of 83.
		The President and Editor in Chief of DC Comics, Jenette Kahn, said, "Bob Kane is a giant in the field of popular culture, one of a handful of people who launched the comic book industry and who gave the world a group of characters so colourful and that they continue to captivate every new generation.
		Bob Kane, a self-proclaimed "doodler" once said he was inspired to draw Batman after studying Leonardo da Vinci's drawings.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/208992.stm (535 words)

	Bob Kane Trivia - Bob Kane Facts - Bob Kane Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bob Kane has said that he believes he would have been happier if he had pursued his preference of humor.
		Bob Kane and Bill Finger were asked by National Comics to create a second costumed hero to follow the success of Superman.
		Bob Kane died at the age of 83.
	www.tv.com /bob-kane/person/50656/trivia.html (875 words)

	Comic creator: Bob Kane
		Bob Kane was the original artist of the 'Batman' comic, which was an immediate hit and has been in continuous publication since 1940, with new stories almost every month.
		Kane began working for the Eisner-Iger studio in New York City as a staff artist in the mid 1930s.
		Kane would illustrate 'Batman' until the mid 1940s, and although his name appeared on the strip until 1964, the work was done mostly by other artists, initially Robinson, and later also Stan Kaye, Sheldon Moldoff, Dick Sprang, Jack Burnley, and Carmine Infantino.
	lambiek.net /artists/k/kane.htm (390 words)

	Jerry Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He suggested the name "Robin" for the sidekick Bob Kane wanted for Batman and even designed most of the costume.
		Kane and Finger based the final version on a photograph of actor Conrad Veidt, who was wearing make-up for a silent film entitled "The Man Who Laughs"; however, the Joker's penchant for leaving his calling card at the scene of a crime was taken from Robinson's original concept.
		Robinson was actually Bob Kane's inker and letterer during the early years until Kane hired George Roussos to take over the background chores.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerry_Robinson (370 words)

	Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Artist Biographies - Bob Kane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bob Kane was born in New York City October 24, 1916.
		But Kane had smartly been advised by a relative who was an attorney that when he sold the first Batman story to DC which appeared in Detective Comics #27 dated May 1939, that he insist on owning a copyrighted interest in Batman and he would reap a large salary throughout the decades from this advice.
		Bob Kane as a comics creator helped to contribute to the tremendous explosion and popularity of costumed heroes since his creation of the Batman.
	www.comic-art.com /bios-1/bobkane1.htm (405 words)

	Area51's Community Newspaper: The Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bob Kane, who created one of our most deeply ingrained cultural icons, The Batman, died at the age of 83.
		Kane's Batman was a vigilante, a "weird figure of the dark".
		Kane was doing lighter fare for DC when editor Vincent Sullivan put him to the task of creating a new super-hero.
	outer-rim.lweb.net /review/14comic1.htm (507 words)

	NewStandard: 11/6/98
		Kane always was proud and astonished at the popularity of the hero he created for DC Comics in 1939.
		"Bob described himself as a doodler, so he found it absolutely amazing that one of his doodles should live this long and become the symbol that it is," Leonard said.
		Kane is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Sanders Kane; a daughter, a grandson and a sister.
	www.s-t.com /daily/11-98/11-06-98/c06ae080.htm (486 words)

	Bob Kane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bob Kane (October 24, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bob_kane.htm (932 words)

	Salon Feature \| Father of urban darkness
		Kane was born in New York City in 1916.
		Kane was actually in New York in 1938 when Joel Schuster and Jerry Siegel created the very first Superman comic.
		Today, on the day of Bob Kane's death, there is probably some academic somewhere crediting the rebirth of Batman to the age of Newt Gingrich.
	www.salon.com /feature/1998/11/06feature.html (1127 words)

	Bob Kane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kane, who became a cartoonist in his teens, assembled a studio of artists and writers to produce the comic book, and over the years there were disputes over who created which character.
		DC Comics said Kane was the cartoonist on the comic series when Robin, the Boy Wonder, made his first appearance, as well as the Joker, the Catwoman and the Riddler, among others.
		Evanier said he believed Kane did less of the drawing of the strip after the 1940s but that he supervised it for many years and acted as a consultant on the movies.
	members.aol.com /deathpool/obits98/kanebob_.html (622 words)

	Bob Kane Appreciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bob Kane, creator of Batman, died on November 3, 1998 at the age of 83.
		Kane, unlike Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, had always enjoyed an amicable relationship with DC and profited form his creation.
		Bob Kane's influence is still felt not only in comics but in the popular culture as well.
	home.earthlink.net /~sanmiguel/articles/kane.htm (306 words)

	UGO Batman Hub - Gotham's Greats: Bob Kane & Bill Finger - BATMAN.UGO.COM
		Tasked with creating a follow-up character to DC Comics' flagship hero Superman, artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger summoned a figure out of the Jungian ether destined to be the Son of Krypton's shadowy reflection, the Hades to his Apollo - and, for many readers, a far more compelling character.
		Kane was certainly influenced by Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and by film noir more generally, and his bat-panels reflect the power of ink, carefully used, to create long and meaningful shadows, threatening shapes of darkness, and the natural world in which Batman lived.
		Bob Kane's early Bat-Man was not to last - at least not in the series' immediate future.
	batman.ugo.com /gothamsgreats/bobkane (615 words)

	ComicSource Newsletter No. 9
		Kane was born in New York City on Oct. 24, 1915.
		When he is startled one night by a bat outside his window, he decides to costume himself as a "bat" man in order to strike fear in the "cowardly and superstitious" hearts of criminals.
		Kane is survived by his wife, daughter, grandson, and sister.
	www.thecomicsource.com /news/news9.html (489 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Bob Kane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The VHDOA was formed in late 2000, by Bob Kane, a retired Washington federal affairs consultant residing in rural Madison County.
		Bob, an engineer by training and a hunter, pointing dog owner and field trialer by avocation, represented clients before government agencies and the U.S. Congress for twenty years.
		Bob Kane is pictured here during an early February snow squall in the hills of southern Arizona during a Mearn's quail hunt with Don Lee, professional hunting guide and fellow Pittman-Robertson Working Group member.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Kane_Bob_5571394.htm (448 words)

	BOB KANE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bob was extremely polite and cordial, even going so far as to invite me, a total stranger, to his house for a visit when I got settled in L.A.!
		Bob spent years donning a Batman cape and cowl and visiting hospitals to draw Batman sketches for sick children.
		Though Bat-fans will miss him, I know without a doubt that Bob is darting about the majesty of the heavenly realm, not with angel's wings, but with his own,specially-made bat cape.
	www.wallyontheweb.com /bobkane.html (535 words)

	Bob Kane Gravesite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bob Kane, Bruce Wayne, Batman--they are one and the same.
		Bob infused his dual identity character with his own attributes: goodness, kindness, compassion, sensitivity, generosity, intelligence, integrity, courage, purity of spirit, a love of all mankind
		Batman is known as the "Dark Knight", but through his deeds he walks in the Light of a Higher Power, as did his creator--Bob Kane!..." --end of epitaph-- This wins my award for the most insane epitaph ever.
	www.thecemeteryproject.com /Graves/kane-bob.htm (189 words)

	The Comics Journal: Interviews
		His position vis-à-vis Bob made him more insecure, because while he slaved working on Batman, he wasn't sharing in any of the glory or the money that Bob began to make, which is why we were going to leave.
		Bob was given the assignment to come up with a character to compete with Superman by Vin Sullivan -- who was the art director, and then afterwards Whitney Ellsworth, but I think Vin Sullivan was there at the time.
		Bob never admitted to his contributions, and he was really shoved in the background and this didn't add to his self-esteem.
	www.tcj.com /271/i_robinson.html (3399 words)

	Upland Bird Dog: Sportsman Bob Kane
		Bob during an early February snow squall in the hills of southern Arizona during a Mearn's quail hunt with Don Lee, professional hunting guide and fellow Pittman-Robertson Working Group member.
		Bob Kane lives on a cattle farm in beautiful, rural Madison County, Virginia.
		Special thanks to Bob Kane for publication of his article.
	www.uplandbirddog.com /authors/kane.html (302 words)

	Neil Gaiman - Neil Gaiman's Journal
		Bob Kane was, by all accounts, a strange guy.
		He didn�t have much talent, but he had a certain amount of luck, and most people know that Bob Kane was the creator of Batman, even if they don�t know that he didn�t write or draw any Batman stuff.
		The only thing that was important to Bob Kane was Bob Kane...
	www.neilgaiman.com /journal/2001/12/bob-kane-was-by-all-accounts-strange.asp (621 words)

	The Superhero Hype! Boards - Who all did Bob Kane create?
		Bob Kane created the idea of Batman, but his idea was dumb.
		In fact, Finger was screwed so bad by Kane and DC that comics pros actually refer to the act of getting screwed out of their creations as getting the Finger.
		Kane came up with the idea but if it wasnt for Finger we'd have a guy dressed up like the Spirit or the Phantom running around.
	www.superherohype.com /forums/printthread.php?t=153557 (662 words)

	BATMAN BEGINS dedicated to Bob Kane? - The Superhero Hype! Boards
		Kane's name will already be in the credits anyway, as he's credited as the creator.
		Besides, Kane more than just came up with a name, since even that would inherently mean that he also came up with the idea of a superhero who based himself on a bat in some way.
		It was Kane who was inspired by Davinci to give a superhero bat-wings, Finger simply suggested another way to do it than Kane had at first.
	www.superherohype.com /forums/showthread.php?t=151750 (1029 words)

	BobKane2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After 1943, Kane's work was primarily concentrated on the daily comic strip He did few comic book stories until the strip ended in 1946.
		Robinson and Roussos remained with the book to provide artistic continuity, Kane was teamed up with a new inker, Charles Paris, who would be associated with Batman for the next 20 years.
		However, this reunion was not to last long, because Bob had entered into a new contract with National Comics, one which gave him ownersip rights to the strip and a substantial boost in payments.
	www.supermanartists.comics.org /Batman/BobKane2.htm (280 words)

	In Memoriam: Bob Kane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		BOB KANE, who created the classic hero Batman for DC Comics nearly 60 years ago, died on November 3, 1998 at the age of eighty-three.
		Kane was doing fill-in cartoons about dogs and cats for DC Comics in 1939 when he was selected to create a hero as powerful and appealing as their year-old Superman.
		Kane has told legions of comic book conventioneers, interviewers and fans over the years that his inspiration came from three basic sources -- Zorro, a Leonardo da Vinci sketch of a man trying to fly with attached bat-like wings and a silent mystery movie titled "The Bat."
	www.mpsc839.org /_Info/In_memoriam/h-k/kane_b.html (118 words)

	Clarion University News
		A souvenir of that relationship a poster size pen and ink Batman lithograph autographed by Kane is one of Pfannestiel’s prized possessions.
		Bob Kane (1915-1998) is the artist who is credited with creating Batman, along with supporting character Robin the Boy Wonder and villains the Joker, the Penguin, Catwoman, and many others.
		Kane and Bill Finger created Batman, who debuted in the May 1939 issue of Detective Comics.
	news.clarion.edu /News/10392.html (512 words)

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