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.
Bob Paul Kane Taggart Gallery in New York presented a solo exhibition of Bob Kane’s work entitled “Journey into Color” in 2006. His works are included in more than thirty museum permanent collections. The most recent inclusions were in 2011 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in 2012 at the Orlando Museum of Art, Florida. Bob Paul Kane Bob Paul Kane (1937 – 2013) was an American painter known for his gestural style, vibrant colors, and festive subject matter. Bob Paul Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio. As a child he attended the Cleveland Museum School, where he received