Batman Begins - For Real
It’s the birthday of the man who created Batman: Bob Kane, born in the Bronx (1916). He’s one of the few boys in American history ever encouraged by his father to become a cartoonist. His father worked as an engraver for a newspaper, and he learned that cartoonists were being paid quite well. He knew his son had a talent for drawing, so he told young Bob to work on cartoons. By the time he was 16, Bob Kane was selling his work for $5 a page.
Batman is the alter-ego of multimillionaire Bruce Wayne and one of the few superheroes in the history of comic books who doesn’t have any special powers.
From the Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor
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Batman remains an intriguing character to me. It’s amazing that Kane was able to think sufficiently “outside the box” to create a superhero who wasn’t really super!
and sufficiently dark and brooding…