Bob Kane artists", drawing uncredited under Kane's supervision. Future "Justice League" writer Gardner Fox wrote some early scripts, including the two-part story "The Monk" that introduced some of The Batman's first "Bat-" equipment. In 1943, Kane left the Batman comic books to focus on penciling the daily "Batman" newspaper comic strip. DC Comics artists ghosting the comic-book stories now included Jack Burnley and Win Mortimer, with Robinson moving up as penciler and Fred Ray contributing some covers. After the strip finished in 1946, Kane returned to the comic books but, unknown to DC, had hired his own personal ghosts, including Lew Schwartz
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