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
Superhero fiction detective the Clock, who debuted in Centaur Publications' "Funny Pages" #6 (Nov. 1936). Historians point to the first appearance of Superman, created by Jerome "Jerry" Siegel and designed by Joseph "Joe" Shuster, in "Action Comics" #1 (June 1938) as the debut of the comic-book archetype of the superhero. Outside the American comics industry, superpowered, costumed heroes such as Ōgon Bat (1931) and the (1930s), were visualized in painted panels used by kamishibai oral storytellers in Japan. In 1938, writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, who had previously worked in pulp science fiction magazines, introduced Superman. (Siegel, as the writer,