Power Man and Iron Fist, Vol. 1 by David F. Walker

His earliest known credit is inking Carl Hubbell on the six-page Scarlet Avenger superhero story 'The Counterfeit Money Code' in MLJ's Zip Comics #14 ( cover-dated May 1941), on which he signed the name 'Gil Kane'. He would also do spot illustrations for other studios. But when I was rehired by MLJ three weeks later, not only did they put me back into the production department and give me an increase, they gave me my first job, which was 'Inspector Bentley of Scotland Yard' in Pep Comics, and then they gave me a whole issue of The Shield and Dusty, one of their leading books'. You had to account for the paper that you took.' Kane began penciling professionally there, but, 'They weren't terribly happy with what I was doing. There must have been 50 or 60 guys up there, all at drawing tables. Jack Binder had a loft on Fifth Avenue and it just looked like an internment camp. The letterers would only put in the lettering, not the balloons, so I would put in the borders, balloons, and I'd finish up artwork-whatever had to be done on a lesser scale.' Within 'a couple of days' of being let go, 'I got a job with Jack Binder's agency. Until being fired after three weeks, Kane worked in production, 'putting borders on pages. I was 16 and I'd already started my last year but I'd already gotten my job the summer before at MLJ, so I didn't want to give up my job. During my summer vacation, I went up and got a job working at MLJ in 1942. Rom the time I was 15, I was going up to the comics offices. Kane attended high school at Manhattan's School of Industrial Art, but left in his senior year when he saw an opportunity to work at MLJ Comics (later Archie Comics). His father was a struggling poultry merchant. in 1929, settling in Brooklyn, New York City. Gil Kane was born Eli Katz on April 6, 1926, in Latvia to a Jewish family that immigrated to the U.S.

In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.īiography Early life and career Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name Is.

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. He was involved in the anti-drug storyline in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist and Adam Warlock with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. Gil Kane ( / dʒ ɪ l k eɪ n/ born Eli Katz / k æ t s/ Ap– January 31, 2000) was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character.

Power Man and Iron Fist, Vol. 1 by David F. Walker