William Finger was born on February 8, 1914.
Kane died on November 3, 1998..
His autobiography, Batman and Me , was published in 1989, and in 1996 he was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame.
He served as a consultant on the 1989 Batman feature film and its sequels.
He was subsequently featured in various one-man art shows at galleries and museums nationwide and released a number of limited-edition lithographs.
The success of the Batman television series brought Kane and his art back into the public eye in 1966.
After the strip\'s 1946 demise, Kane returned to illustrating Batman\'s comic book adventures and, with the help of several ghosts, remained involved with comics until his retirement in 1968.
He discontinued his comic book efforts in mid-1943 to pencil the daily Batman and Robin newspaper strip.
As Batman\'s popularity demanded additional output, Kane kept up the pace by adding assistants and dropping non-Batman assignments.
Their most famous effort, Batman, first appeared in DETECTIVE COMICS #27 (May 1939).
Kane met writer Bill Finger at a party in 1938, and they soon were collaborating on comic book submissions.
By 1938 he was selling humorous filler stories to DC Comics, including Professor Doolittle and Ginger Snap .
In 1936, this self-proclaimed compulsive doodleholic pencilled and inked his first comic book work, Hiram Hick .
Robert Kahn was born on October 24, 1916 in the Bronx and at age 18 legally changed his name to Kane.
He was posthumously inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame in 1999.
Finger died in New York City on January 24, 1974.
His efforts in the super-hero genre also appeared on TV in the 1960s, including material for the animated New Adventures of Superman plus a two-part Clock King episode of the 1966 Batman series.
Finger\'s television credits include 77 Sunset Strip, The Roaring Twenties and Hawaiian Eye during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
He worked on many other DC characters and titles, scripted some of the 1940s daily and Sunday Batman and Robin newspaper strip continuities, and wrote for Quality, Fawcett and Timely.
Finger\'s fondness for pulp fiction and movies influenced his plots and writing style for comic books.
Within a year, Batman appeared.
He met cartoonist Bob Kane at a party in 1938, and soon after they were collaborating on several adventure strips.
William Finger was born on February 8, 1914
