Whether or not this is just a dumb joke or Tim Burton's comment on Bob Kane's notorious history is a Batman mystery that remains stuck under Burton's tangle of hair. When the drawing is handed to Knox, Knox compares the sarcastic artist to an anatomical organ. It's a great homage to Batman's real world origins, no matter what you think of Kane, but it goes a little deeper. Bob Kane was originally scheduled to make an appearance, but he was ill during filming, so only his drawing showed up in a cameo. An original Bob Kane drawing shows up during the course of Tim Burton's Batman: a joke drawing of a bat in a fancy suit handed to Alexander Knox, played by Robert Wuhl. According to legend, and Comics Alliance, Kane then apparently re-negotiated his contract so that he'd get complete credit and residuals for Batman-even on stuff he didn't actually work on.īut that's neither here nor there.
The common story is that Bill Finger wrote and created a vast majority of the original Batman's world, and Bob Kane came up with some early, unused sketches before incorporating Finger's iconic ideas into the Batman we know today. The truth is that the creation of Batman is a hotly contested issue, and the facts are buried back in 1939. or at least that's the polite thing to say. Bill Finger and Bob Kane co-created Batman.