Bob Kane and as a painter showed his work in art galleries, although some of these paintings were produced by ghost artists. DC Comics named Kane in 1985 as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication "Fifty Who Made DC Great". In 1989, Kane published the autobiography "Batman and Me", with a second volume "Batman and Me, The Saga Continues", in 1996. Kane worked as a consultant on the 1989 film "Batman" and its three sequels with directors Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher. Stan Lee interviewed Kane in the documentary series "The Comic Book Greats". Kane married his first
Modern Age of Comic Books in comic books. This also led to an avalanche of other comic book adaptations which included previously lesser known Vertigo titles, notably "Constantine" (based on the comic book "Hellblazer") and "V for Vendetta". In the mid-1970s, Marvel antiheroes such as the X-Men’s Wolverine, the Punisher, and writer/artist Frank Miller’s darker version of Daredevil challenged the previous model of the superhero as a cheerful humanitarian. Miller also created Elektra, who straddled the conventional boundary between love interest and villain. Two artistically influential DC Comics limited series contributed to the trend: "," also by Frank Miller and "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and