Bob Kane Quotes
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It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.
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When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.
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Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
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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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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 planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.
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It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.
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It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?
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I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.
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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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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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The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.
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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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If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
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I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.
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If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.