Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Batman</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1945-04-27
name: label: graphic artist
content: Kane, Bob
label: maker
content: D. C. Comics, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Batman</i> comic strip shows a man dying and requesting that Batman deliver a message, in the form of a poem, to a girl he once held prisoner. When Batman and Robin question his sanity, the man says he hates everything about Batman.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Robert Kahn, regularly using the pseudonym Bob Kane (1915-1998), started work as a comic artist at the Eisner and Iger Studio in New York City. In 1938 he began working for publishers <i>Action Comics</i> and <i>DC Comics.</i> In 1938 Kane teamed up with Bill Finger to create <i>Batman.</i> Kane drew the <i>Batman</i> strip and <i>Batman</i> comic books until the mid-1940s. In the 1960s he assisted with the television show <i>Courageous Cat</i> and consulted on various <i>Batman</i> adaptations.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Batman</i> (1943-1946, 1966-1974, 1989-1991) started its comic strip run, originally under the name <i>Batman and Robin,</i> a few years after its debut in comic books. The strip had three separate runs in American newspapers. The first was drawn and written by Bob Kane, and others. The second drew inspiration from the <i>Batman</i> television show. It was credited to Kane, but was actually created by a team of other artists. The third run was drawn by Carmine Infantino and published for two years.
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Joseph Gura, Jr. (through Carl Sandberg IV)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0081.295
label: accession number
content: 2010.0081
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0081.295
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.3 cm x 58.5 cm; 7 7/32 in x 23 1/32 in