Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Kane

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Bob Kane.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Robert Kane was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created, with Bill Finger, the DC Comics character Batman. Kane also co-created the animated series Cool McCool. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.

American - Artist | October 24, 1916 - November 3, 1998

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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.

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

Bob Kane

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.

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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.

Bob Kane

The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

Bob Kane

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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.

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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.

Bob Kane

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

Bob Kane

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 !

Bob Kane

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.

Bob Kane

Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Kane

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