Batman The Golden Age Vol. 4

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The 1940s tales that cemented Batman's reputation as the world's greatest crime-fighter are collected in this new paperback. These stories include the Caped Crusader's run-ins with the Joker, the Penguin, Two-Face and more! BATMAN- THE GOLDEN AGE VOL. 4 features the work of such luminaries as Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson and others.

Collects DETECTIVE COMICS #66-74, BATMAN #12-15 and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #7-9.The 1940s tales that cemented Batman's reputation as the world's greatest crime-fighter are collected in this new paperback. These stories include the Caped Crusader's run-ins with the Joker, the Penguin, Two-Face and more! BATMAN- THE GOLDEN AGE VOL. 4 features the work of such luminaries as Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson and others.

Collects DETECTIVE COMICS #66-74, BATMAN #12-15 and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #7-9.
William Finger was born on February 8, 1914. He met cartoonist Bob Kane at a party in 1938, and soon after they were collaborating on several adventure strips. Within a year, Batman appeared. Finger's fondness for pulp fiction and movies influenced his plots and writing style for comic books. 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 television credits include 77 Sunset Strip, The Roaring Twenties and Hawaiian Eye during the late 1950s and early 1960s. His efforts in the superhero 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 died in New York City on January 24, 1974. He was posthumously inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame in 1999.

Robert Kahn was born on October 24, 1916, in the Bronx and at age 18 legally changed his name to Kane. In 1936, this self-proclaimed compulsive doodleholic pencilled and inked his first comic book work, Hiram Hick. By 1938 he was selling humorous filler stories to DC Comics, including Professor Doolittle and Ginger Snap. Kane met writer Bill Finger at a party in 1938, and they soon were collaborating on comic book submissions. Their most famous effort, Batman, first appeared in DETECTIVE COMICS #27 (May 1939). As Batman's popularity demanded additional output, Kane kept up the pace by adding assistants and dropping non-Batman assignments. He discontinued his comic book efforts in mid-1943 to pencil the daily Batman and Robin newspaper strip. After the strip's 1946 demise, Kane returned to illustr