#bob kane

[miimo96]

Nah They've been hitting way too Hard with these cover variants lately like i can just tell this man crane is gonna be putting batman through some absolute HELL next issue, also is it just me or is anyone else getting mad Lankman vibes from this ^^;

[80smovies]

[cidraman]

Nº 1 Textless Covers.

[mikyapixie]

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙰𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝙰𝚍𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙱𝚊𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝚆𝚎𝚜𝚝 & 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚝 𝚆𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝟺𝟿 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝙰𝚐𝚘, 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝟸, 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟽, 𝙾𝚗 𝙲𝙱𝚂!!

[dcbinges]

Batman #3 (1940) by Bill Finger & Bob Kane

[90smovies]

[batmanhistorian]

Stills from the silent mystery thriller THE BAT (1926), directed by Roland West.

"Films also contributed to the dark, mysterioso atmosphere I tried to evoke in Batman. [...] Movies like Dracula, with Bela Lugosi ⸺ with the fog swirling up around the moors and the evil old castle ⸺ left an incredible impression on me.

The first year of Batman was heavily influenced by horror films, and emulated a Dracula look."

⸺ Batman and Me is a 1989 book compiled by Tom Andrae that documents Bob Kane's account of the creation of Batman. It's been disproven as illegitimate by now, though the question remains whether the initial aesthetic of Batman (produced by Bob Kane before Bill Finger later perfected it) is influenced by this silent film. Most agree that it is, due to the strikingly memorable elements such as the proto-version of a Bat-Signal, and so on.

Stills from THE BAT WHISPERS (1930), Roland West's sound remake of his silent film THE BAT (1926).

Promotional Posters for THE BAT (1926) from The Film Daily (vol. 35, no. 2, Monday, January 4, 1926, page 10) & The Film Daily (vol. 35, no. 6, Friday, January 8, 1926, page 10).

Bob Kane's first version of 'BAT-MAN' from the book Bill, The Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator Of Batman.

[smbhax]

Batman #59, June-July 1950. Bob Kane cover figure pencils, Lew Sayre Schwartz ship & background pencils, Charles Paris inks, Ira Schnapp letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database