Batman (comic book) career at DC Comics. I was able to ink it myself, and also got my girlfriend at the time, Lynn Varley, to colour it - her first job in comics." Four more annuals were published from 2006 to 2011, again with the numbering continued from the previous series. In 2012, a new annual series was begun with a #1 issue. The first stories appearing in the "Batman" comic book were written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Bob Kane, though Finger went uncredited for years thereafter. These early stories depicted a vengeful Batman, not hesitant to kill when he saw
Bob Kane from DeWitt Clinton High School and then legally changed his name to Robert Kane. He studied art at Cooper Union before "joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in the year of 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 and ink work on the serial "Hiram Hick". The following year, Kane began to work at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger, which was one of the first comic book "packagers" that produced comics on demand for publishers