Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
This is the height of absurdity. The mayor of Batman, Turkey, is claiming he’s suing Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties because they used the name of his city without permission. Sue Bob Kane while you’re at it, too. Jeez, how ridiculous
No Smoking in the Skull Cave (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Today is comic book legend Steve Ditko's 80th birthday and to celebrate here are 5 facts you may or may not have known the man. 1. Ditko studied art in New York under instructor Jerry Robinson (the second artist to draw Batman, right after creator Bob Kane) at the Cartoonists And Illustrators School. 2. Had a long running feud with Stan Lee because he believed Stan was claiming to be the sole creator...
The Current Buzz - Tech (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
In 1966, manga prodigy Jiro Kuwata was commissioned to do a regular Japanese manga version of Bob Kane’s Batman comics, to tie in with the Japanese launch of the Batman TV show. Kuwata quickly decided that Kane’s scripts wouldn’t play to a Japanese audience, so he remade the Dark Knight for the expectations of a [...]
Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #174 : Bob Kane, Mephisto, and Phoenix. They've come for the chocolate ! NO! Why we aren't afraid enough of the economic meltdown. Greg Hatcher has a teaching story that made me cry. The Cat and the Garage Door (via Kate ). LEGO Bionicle Aquaman (among others). The unintended consequences of a well-meaning but vague law. Twitter helps save lives . Moving Advice we...
Fortress Of Fortitude (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
If Bill Finger and Bob Kane lifted that whole creature-of-the-night bit from The Shadow, then Spy Smasher creators C.C. Beck and Bill Parker took their cues from G-8 And His Battle Aces. Although cloaked in shadows in his first appearance, Spy Smasher was soon depicted more as a two-fisted aviator than a man of mystery. Using his fabulous Gyrosub - a wonderous machine able to streak through [...]
BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Here's a nifty Bat-ad from 1942. Recently we wrote a little about Jerry Robinson, the original Bob Kane "ghost." The cover in this ad is a fine example of Robinson's work on the strip. In fact, Dick Grayson looks to me to be Robinson's work, also, but GCD says that "Batman Plays a Lone Hand" was (gasp!) really drawn by Bob Kane! Inks are credited to Robinson, though.
SimplyScripts (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Joblo.com has scored an undated, unspecified draft script of The Dark Knight (pdf format) by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan (story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer based on the character created by Bob Kane). - Don
Xboxyde (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
As the Dark Knight is breaking record after record in the movie industry, Bob Kane's Batman strikes back on our game consoles in Eidos' and Rocksteady Studio's Batman : Arkham Asylum, action-investigation game today unveiled with a bunch of impressive screenshots. Surprisingly promising.
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
(YouTube link) A 12 minute short depicting the origin of “The Bat-Man” and introducing his amazing skills and abilities… Bob Kane and Bill Finger drew on a lot of silent films to create Batman, and I’ve always wanted to give the story a try using silent film techniques. What with that whole copyright/waste of time thing, [...]
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Jon Barnes in the TLS: A year from his seventieth birthday, Batman appears to be perennial – potent, resilient, tirelessly protean. Dreamed up in the Depression by a gang of scribblers and cartoonists led by Bob Kane (who had a...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
In 1939, Bob Kane created “The Bat-Man” for issue #27 of Detective Comics, and as they say, the rest is history. This past weekend the highly anticipated film The Dark Knight was released in theaters, setting a record for biggest three-day take with $155.3M in tickets sold. To celebrate we’ve rounded up 25 sites where you can learn more about the Batman series and its characters. Below you can find...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
In 1939, the same year that Hitler’s invasion of Poland officially launched World War II, Bob Kane created Batman. It was also the year that famed psychiatrist Sigmund Freud died, facilitating the ascendance of his onetime friend, Carl Jung, along with Jung’s more mystical and uncertain understanding of man as a creature beset by an internal tug-of-war. While there’s no clear evidence that Kane was...
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Reviewed by Paul Pritchard Quote: "Truly, this season of The Batman , perhaps more so than any other, feels like a love letter to Bob Kane's creation, and a gift to all his fans."
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
ComicList: DC for 06/04/2008 All New Atom #24 , $2.99 American Splendor Season Two #3 (of 4) , $2.99 Batman Black And White Statue Bob Kane , $69.99 Batman Death Mask #3 (of 4) , $2.99 Batman The Killing Joke Collectors Set , $34.99 DC Special Raven #4 (of 5) , $2.99 Detective Comics #845 , $2.99 Fables TP Vol 10 The Good Prince , $17.99 House Of Mystery #2 , $2.99 Infinity Inc #10 , $2.99 Infinity...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 27/04/2008
Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman ) is a fictional character , a comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger (although only Kane receives official credit) [1] and published by DC Comics . The character made his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939). read more
