Bob Kane Quotes

There are certain characters Bill Finger created, aside from my main characters` and many other characters that I created, including the Batmobile.

I`ve often been asked, do I like the New Look Batman better than the old look. My answer to that question is, Emphatically, no!!

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

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.

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.

The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

I created the title, masthead, the format and concept, as well as the Batman figure and costume. Robin, the boy wonder, was also my idea.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

I didn`t have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

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.

It`s been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you`ve heard my side.

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.

In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.

It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.

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.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger`s byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

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.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

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.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn`t look right.

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.