American comic book Kane and Bill Finger created Batman, who debuted in "Detective Comics" #27 (1939). The period from the late 1930s through roughly the end of the 1940s is referred to by comic book experts as the Golden Age of comic books. It featured extremely large print-runs, with "Action Comics" and "Captain Marvel" selling over half a million copies a month each; comics provided very popular cheap entertainment during World War II especially among soldiers, but with erratic quality in stories, art, and printing. In the early 1940s over 90 percent of girls and boys from seven to seventeen read comic books.
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