Gil Kane
Comic book Legend who worked through the Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper and Modern ages of comics. Legendary creator of Hal Jordan, Iron Fist, Abin Sur, Atom, Guy Gardner and Sinestro to name a few.
Name:
Gil Kane
Aliases:
Birth date:
April 6th, 1926
Death date:
January 31st, 2000
Home town:
Aventura, FL
Country:
United States
Eli Katz (April 6, 1926, Riga, Latvia – January 31, 2000, Miami, Florida, United States) who worked under the name Gil Kane and in a few instances Scott Edwards, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and The Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as a groundbreaking arc in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (May-July 1971) that, at the behest of the U.S. 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. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name is...Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.
Characters Created by Gil Kane
- Abin Sur
- Abomination
- Atom
- Baron Macabre
- Black Hand
- Brute (Reed Richards)
- Bug Eyed Bandit
- Dragon Lord
- Equinox
- Carol Ferris
- Floronic Man
- Guy Gardner
- Goldface
- Guardians of the Universe
- Hector Hammond
- Hangman (Marvel)
- Human Fly
- Iron Fist
- Jean Loring
- Hal Jordan
- Thomas Kalmaku
- Katma Tui
- Krona
- Major Disaster
- Medphyll
- Morbius, the Living Vampire
- Doctor Polaris
- Sinestro
- Sonar
- Stegron
- Tomar Re
- Yu Ti
- Zamaron
