Bob Kane ... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective. The character debuted in "Detective Comics" #27 (May 1939) and proved a breakout hit. Within a year, Kane hired art assistants Jerry Robinson (initially as an inker) and George Roussos (backgrounds artist and letterer). Though Robinson and Roussos worked out of Kane's art studio in "The New York Times" building, Kane himself did all his drawing at home. Shortly afterward, when DC wanted more Batman stories than Kane's studio could deliver, the company assigned Dick Sprang and other in-house pencilers as "ghost
Shaky Kane Shaky Kane Michael Coulthard is a British writer and psychedelic artist who best known for his work as a comic and graphic artist under the pseudonym Shaky Kane, as well as Shaky 2000. After working for independent comics and magazines like "Deadline" in the 1980s, Shaky moved to the mainstream with work on "2000 AD" and its sister title, the "Judge Dredd Megazine" in the 1990s. With editor David Bishop, he created the "Soul Sisters", and he also contributed to the "Judge Dredd" strip, among others. Shaky's style is heavily influenced by Silver Age American comic books (especially the style