Holy Creative Disputes, Batman!' joshua_flanders talked to Mark Pracht about his new play, The Mark of Kane at CityLitTheater, which tells the tangled story of the creation of the Caped Crusader. 👇
Unmasked man: Mark Pracht has his eyes on the backstories of some of the greatest names in comics history., part of the Saturday morning cartoon lineup of the 1970s, and soon afterward I caught the campy reruns of the 1960s live-action TV show. This led me to scour my brother Aaron’s Bronze Age collection of DC Comics, the ones with macabre covers by the likes of Dave Cockrum and Neal Adams, like Robin hanging dead or a menacing-looking Batman seeking vengeance.
While the exact facts of who created what remains unclear it is generally accepted that Kane and Finger, two friends in a Bronx apartment, created the character of Batman over a few days. Kane has claimed sole creation credit and in 1939 ultimately got written credit from DC Comics in perpetuity, leaving him to decide what credit, if any, Finger received., which led Warner Brothers to officially recognize Finger as cocreator of Batman on film and TV projects going forward.
When Batman was originally created for DC , these two were just young men, happy to be making something new. This love of art for art’s sake was what drew many early comic book artists to this growing industry. Neither expected it to live much beyond a handful of issues, and no one could predict what a huge impact Batman would have on the world now over 80 years later and how many billions of dollars would be made from this one character alone.
Plus, as Pracht says, it is a story of “kids just making stuff up by the seat of their pants. And out of this comes these things that are so beloved and so part of our national consciousness.”
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