Bob Kane Quotes
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It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.
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I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.
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I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.
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When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.
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After it is said and done about who does what on the Batman assembly line, I do not underestimate all of the help I've received.
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There are certain characters Bill Finger created, aside from my main characters' and many other characters that I created, including the Batmobile.
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I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.
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It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.
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Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
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Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate … I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective.
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There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
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To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested in the job. Luckily, I get paid for doing what I'd do for nothing.
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This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
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How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?
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Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the Moth Signal summoned the Gangland Guardian to the aid of desperate criminals ?And who can forget the eerie Moth Cave where new and startling implements of crime were produced by this evil genius !
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Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.
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I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.
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In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.
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What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
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It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
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I feel that my original style was much more unique and individual and was much more the real me. It had much more zing and schmaltz.
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The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
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The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.
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Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.