He was created by artist Bob Kane (Robert Kahn) and writer Bill (Milton) Finger (who also co-created Green Lantern), in response to the runaway success of the first superhero, Superman ...

“Batman created by Bob Kane.” Kane, who died in 1998, was the artist who first infused the nascent superhero genre with a dose of pulpy darkness, creating a Superman rival in the image of ...

and Bob Kane got to work. According to Bill Finger, Kane's original design looked a lot more like Superman than the Batman we ...

Bob Kane (above) got credit for creating Batman ... superhero was dreamed up in 1939 after Kane noticed the success of Superman and promised publisher National Comics (later called DC Comics ...

In 1989, Bob Kane shared a limo with Marvel’s Stan Lee ... the co-creators of DC’s Superman. So it came as no surprise that in 1939, when Kane went sniffing for work around the offices of ...

Bob Kane, (As Nightwing) Marv Wolfman; George Pérez Given how close Nightwing and Batman are as adopted son and father, it’s ...

Was Superman inspired by Moses ... who rose from the trauma of losing his parents—was dreamed up by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, also a couple of Jews. The idea of transforming grief into purpose?

“The Bob Kane and Bill Finger story is just so fascinating,” says Pracht, who notes that the Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster story (the creators of Superman) is more like David and ...

Earlier today, Batman co-creator Bob Kane was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder, DC's Co-Publisher Jim Lee, as well as Kane's ...

But that describes how Superman behaves as well. They’re not that far apart.” It wasn’t until November 1939, a full nine months after his introduction, that Batman co-creator Bob Kane penned ...