Bob Kane

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Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn, October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book artist and writer credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future The Spirit creator Will Eisner, Robert Kahn graduated from De Witt Clinton High School and legally changed his name to Bob Kane at age 18. Kane studied art at Cooper Union, before "joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in 1934." 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 & ink work on the serial Hiram Hick. The following year, Kane began working at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger, 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 it's... full article at wikipedia

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