Bob Kane Bob Kane Robert Kane (born Robert Kahn ; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer and artist who co-created, with Bill Finger, the DC Comics character Batman. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996. Robert Kahn was born in New York City, New York. His parents, Augusta and Herman Kahn, an engraver, were of Eastern European Jewish descent. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future Spirit creator Will Eisner, Robert Kahn graduated
Gil Kane animated series. The book refers to the Kane/Broome Institute for Space Studies in Coast City. The Broome Kane Galaxy in "" is named for him and John Broome. Writer Alan Moore made Kane a character in Awesome Comics' "Judgment Day: Aftermath" which Kane illustrated. While he was alive, Kane was made the lead character in writer Mike Friedrich's story "His Name Is ... Kane" (a play on Kane's "His Name Is ... Savage") in DC Comics' supernatural anthology "House of Mystery" #180 (June 1969). In the six-and-a-half-page tale, penciled by Kane and inked by Wally Wood, frustrated comic-book artist Gil