Bob Kane was an American comic book artist who with writer Bill Finger cocreated the DC Comics superhero Batman. He was inducted into the comicbook industrys Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.
Robert Kahn was born in New York City, New York. His parents, Augusta and Herman Kahn, an engraver, were of Eastern European Jewish descent. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future Spirit creator Will Eisner, Robert Kahn graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and then legally changed his name to Bob Kane. He studied art at Cooper Union before joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in 1934.
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