Jerry Robinson

Jerry Robinson (born January 1, 1922 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' Batman line of comics during the 1940s. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004. Jerry Robinson was a journalism student at Columbia University in Manhattan when he began working for writer-artist Bob Kane in 1939. Kane, with writer Bill Finger, had shortly before created the character Batman for Nat... more

Jerry Robinson (born January 1, 1922 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' Batman line of comics during the 1940s. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004. Jerry Robinson was a journalism student at Columbia University in Manhattan when he began working for writer-artist Bob Kane in 1939. Kane, with writer Bill Finger, had shortly before created the character Batman for National Comics, the future DC Comics. Robinson rented a room from a family in The Bronx near Kane's family's Grand Concourse apartment, where Kane used his bedroom as an art studio. He started as a letterer and a background inker, shortly graduating to inking secondary figures. Within a year, he became Batman's primary inker, with George Roussos inking backgrounds. Batman quickly became a hit character, and Kane rented space for Robinson and Roussos in Times Square's Times Tower. Approximately a year and a half after Robinson and Finger were... less