Autographs of Bob Kane
Robert Kane (né Kahn /kɑːn/; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer, animator, and artist who co-created Batman (with Bill Finger) and many other early related characters for DC Comics. 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.
Kahn was born in New York City. His parents, Augusta (née Tuchman) and Herman Kahn, an engraver, were of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future Spirit creator Will Eisner, Robert Kahn graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and then legally changed his name to Robert Kane. He studied art at Cooper Union before joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in the year of 1934.
He entered the comics field two years later, in 1936, freelancing original material to editor Jerry Iger's comic book Wow, What a Magazine!, including his first pencil and ink work on the serial Hiram Hick. The following year, Kane began to work at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger, which was one of the first comic book "packagers" that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during its late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age. Among his work there was the talking animal feature "Peter Pupp"—which belied its look with overtones of "mystery and menace"—published in the U.K. comic magazine Wags and reprinted in Fiction House's Jumbo Comics. Kane also produced work through Eisner & Iger for two of the companies that would later merge to form DC Comics, including the humor features "Ginger Snap" in More Fun Comics, "Oscar the Gumshoe" for Detective Comics, and "Professor Doolittle" for Adventure Comics. For that last title he went on to do his first adventure strip, "Rusty and his Pals".
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The most expensive item with a signature of Bob Kane (Batman (1940) 1 CGC 2.5 Restored Signed Bob Kane 4378815017 1st app. the Joker) was sold in March 2025 for £164,632.00 while the cheapest item (BOB KANE HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CARD - BATMAN CREATOR) found a new owner for £4.08 in May 2018. The month with the most items sold (8) was March 2025 with an average selling price of £255.27 for an autographed item of Bob Kane. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2025 with £1,773.33 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £6.00 was June 2023. In average, an autographed item from Bob Kane is worth £183.35.
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