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Characters created by Bob Kane

  • BatmanIn September 2024, Batman became the first fictional superhero to receive a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
  • Dick GraysonDick Grayson, the DC Comics hero who first appeared in Detective Comics #38 in April 1940, has changed more often than almost any character in superhero comics. He began as a child performer in a circus family. Since then he has carried at…
  • Joker (character)The Joker was nearly killed off in his second comic appearance. An editor saved him with a hastily drawn panel.
  • Scarecrow (DC Comics)The DC Comics supervillain known as the Scarecrow has given himself a title: the Master of Fear. Behind the stitched burlap mask is Dr. Jonathan Crane, and he is not chasing money or power. His crimes are experiments. He releases a…
  • Robin (character)Robin, the young partner of Batman in DC Comics, once had his fate decided by a telephone poll. In 1988, DC invited readers to call a 1-900 number and choose whether the second Robin, Jason Todd, should die. The count came in at 5,343…
  • Alfred PennyworthAlfred Pennyworth, the butler who serves Batman in DC Comics, has been dead in the main DC Universe continuity since 2019. As of 2026, he has not returned. That loss weighs heavily because of how much the character has carried across more…
  • CatwomanCatwoman first appeared in Batman #1, published in the spring of 1940, and in that issue she did not wear a costume at all. She was called only "the Cat," a mysterious burglar and jewel thief. For most of the story she was disguised as an…
  • Two-FaceTwo-Face, the coin-tossing enemy of Batman, makes his first appearance in Detective Comics #66, published in August 1942. Late in that issue, Batman chases him down and corners him. The hero offers a simple deal: give up and start over.…
  • ClayfaceDetective Comics #40, cover-dated June 1940, introduced a murderer called Clayface, and the man under the costume was a B-list actor named Basil Karlo. Nobody could have guessed what the name would grow into. Over the following decades it…
  • DeadshotDeadshot, the DC Comics assassin whose real name is Floyd Lawton, makes one boast again and again: he never misses. Comics have given him a chest emblem shaped like a reticle, a mask with a sight built into it, and a pair of guns strapped…

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