BOB KANE .COM Bob Kane .com YOU KNOW IT! Bob Kane was born on October 24, 1915 in New York. He is credited as the creator of the superhero Batman, published by DC Comics. Comics historian Ron Goulart, in his Comic Book Encyclopedia, referred to Batman as the "creation of artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger." However, even later on in his career, Kane acknowledged only that his studio writer Finger was "a contributing force" regarding the character. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist Will Eisner, the future creator of The Spirit, Kane entered the comics world in 1936, freelancing original material to editor Jerry Iger's comic book Wow, What A Magazine!. The following year, Kane began working at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger, one of the first comic book "packagers" that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during its late 1930s and early 1940s Golden ...