Showing posts with label ARTIST Bob Kane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ARTIST Bob Kane. Show all posts
14 November 2015

Planetary Copyright

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Here’s an interesting wrinkle about international copyright protections: The classic novella “The Little Prince” fell into the public do...
29 May 2014

From Spring Heel Jack to Batman

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Among the ephemera on display in the “Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK” exhibit at the British Library is a penny-dreadful tale...
23 February 2014

Neal Adams on Robinson’s Robin

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In the third part of Kevin Smith’s podcast interview with artist Neal Adams, Smith asks whom Adams sees as the creator of Batman. Earlier...
10 April 2013

A Mystery with Not-So-Secret Identities

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A while back, I had the idea for a mystery story set in the world of mid-1900s American comics publishing. I’m still working on that, but ...
02 January 2013

Who Wrote “The Isle That Time Forgot”?

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While researching the last weekly Robin posting , I stumbled across a curious dispute over the question of who wrote “The Isle That Time F...
19 August 2012

A Full Look at Detective Comics, #38

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Comixology ’s Nightwing 101 sale (ending this evening) offered me a 99¢ look at the whole of Detective Comics , #38, the magazine which in...
15 January 2012

“The Guardianship of Dick Grayson!”

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“You must have read how Batman first took charge of a young boy named Dick Grayson ...whose parents, The Flying Graysons of circus fame, ha...
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25 December 2011

Weekly Robin Holiday Greetings

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This weekly Robin shares a few highlights from the holiday story in Batman , #15, dated February-March 1943 but on sale the previous Decemb...
11 December 2011

Robinson’s Visual Inspiration for Robin

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In further honor of the late Jerry Robinson , this weekly Robin quotes from his 2004-05 interview by Gary Groth for The Comics Journal on...
08 December 2011

Weekly Robin Extra: Farewell to Jerry Robinson

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Comics artist and advocate Jerry Robinson died this week at the age of eighty-nine. He was a teenager when Bob Kane hired him as an assis...
25 September 2011

“I could be Robin, but I didn't think I could be Batman”

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As DC Comics wound down its first Batman series with issue #713, it turned to writing stalwart Fabian Nicieza to script a final story. I ...
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17 April 2011

Researching Robin

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Marc Tyler Nobleman , author of Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman and an upcoming book on writer Bill Finger , has generously shared ...
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10 April 2011

Look Upward Robin!

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From the daily Batman and Robin strip of the 1940s, back when a superhero comic being gritty meant it contained actual grit . But to show t...
03 April 2011

The Original Daily Batman

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Yes, Dick, we discern the irony in your current situation. This panel is from the first Batman and Robin daily comic strip, which ran in No...
13 December 2009

“That’s Potent Stuff, Kid! Like as Not to Give You Bad Dreams…”

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Some Batman histories, such as the From the ’30s to the ’70s volume I read as a lad, say that Dick Grayson’s departure for college allowe...
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06 December 2009

Robin Never Kills

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As a follow-up to my “Reason for Robin, #9,” the weekly Robin will spend a couple of weeks exploring how Dick Grayson’s youth changed the ...
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02 August 2009

Featuring “the Sensational Character Find”

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Among DC Comics's many paperback collections are The Batman Chronicles , collecting every Batman story from the Detective and Batman ...
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