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Tag: Batman

Formation of a comic book artist

Posted on 2021-08-27 by Karen Green

A new addition to the Jerry Robinson papers sheds a startling light on the early years of a storied comics artist and illustrator. In the Poconos, in the summer of 1939, Bob Kane–the artist who, with writer Bill Finger, had developed the character Batman a year earlier–spotted a teenager named Jerry Robinson, sporting a jacket […]

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Posted in Comics and CartoonsTagged art, Batman, comics, Jerry Robinson

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