Bob Kane and as a painter showed his work in art galleries, although some of these paintings were produced by ghost artists. DC Comics named Kane in 1985 as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication "Fifty Who Made DC Great". In 1989, Kane published the autobiography "Batman and Me", with a second volume "Batman and Me, The Saga Continues", in 1996. Kane worked as a consultant on the 1989 film "Batman" and its three sequels with directors Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher. Stan Lee interviewed Kane in the documentary series "The Comic Book Greats". Kane married his first
Bob Kane he had met Kane at a party, and Kane later offered him a job ghost writing the strips "Rusty" and "Clip Carson". He recalled that Kane Finger said he offered such suggestions as giving the character a cowl and scalloped cape instead of wings; adding gloves; leaving the mask's eyeholes blank to connote mystery; and removing the bright red sections of the original costume, suggesting instead a gray-and-black color scheme. Finger additionally said his suggestions were influenced by Lee Falk's "The Phantom", a syndicated newspaper comic strip character with which Kane was familiar as well. Finger, who said he also