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Bob Kane Tribute Batman
Costume
Art by Chris
Frahme
Artist comments: I always
thought that Batman's costume should always have looked like the
first appearance suit, or at least very close. Using some
rare Michael Keaton photos, I gave him what I consider to be the
perfect costume
History: Bob Kane was the
creator of Batman. He was born Robert Kahn but legally changed his name to the familiar "Kane" at age 18. An eager young artist, Kane came to the burgeoning comics world in 1936 with his own book that led to various assignments in the following years. Following the success of Superman in Action Comics, editors at National Publications (now DC Comics) requested more superheroes comics. In response, Kane created a character called "Birdman" among many, before settling on "The Bat-Man" which was partly influenced by his love of Douglas Fairbanks' "Zorro" and Mary Rinehart's mysterious villain "The Bat". His collaborator/studio writer, Bill Finger offered such suggestions as giving the character a cowl instead of a simple domino mask, giving him a cape instead of wings, giving him gloves, and removing the bright red sections of the original
costume, suggesting a grey\black color scheme not unlike that worn by the Phantom, right down to leaving the eyeholes in the cowl blank to connote mystery. Finger wrote the first Batman story, while Kane provided art. Because Kane had already submitted the proposal for a Batman character to his editors at DC Comics, Kane was the only person given official credit at the time for the creation of Batman, in a tradition that was absent in the comic books but was routine in the more lucrative field of the daily newspaper strips.
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