Chronological: Bob Kane I have a secret to tell you. I’m not real. I’m the brainchild of one of the comic book greats, which I suppose makes him my brainfather. No, that doesn’t sound right. He brainbirthed me, yeah, that makes sense. I was brainbirthed by Bob Kane, born Robert Kahn, who had known he wanted to be a cartoonist since he was ten years old. He would copy the comic pages in the newspapers every Sunday, and his parents, Herman and Augusta Kahn, supported his desire to do so; they didn’t discourage him for wanting to get into art. At age fifteen, he won second place in a contest for a Just Kids comic strip, and he began selling his comics the next year. Continuing to work at his goal, he graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and …show more content…
He, Eisner, and Jerry Iger profited off of the high demand for comics during what was known as the “Golden Age” of comic books. In 1939, Kane, inspired by the success of Action Comics superhero Superman, came up with the idea for the “Bat-Man.” I was a product of Douglas Fairbanks’ portrayal of the legendary swashbuckler Zorro, Leonardo Da Vinci’s diagram of the ornithopter, and the silent movie titled The Bat. Once he and his fellow comic book writer, Bill Finger, modified me multiple times, I made my first appearance in comics in Detective Comics # 27. Kane and Finger went on to develop a whole host of new characters for me. They came up with Robin, who was apparently a creation based on the “confusing internal dialogue I always had with myself.” In my opinion, brooding in thought bubbles is great. Jerry Robinson, another illustrator, named him for the Robin Hood books he grew up with as a kid. They also created the Joker, a character who would become their hero’s greatest enemy, in 1940, around the same time as Robin, who was based off of Conrad Veidt’s character in the movie The Man Who