Eli Katz (April 6, 1926,
Riga,
Latvia – January 31, 2000,
Miami, Florida,
United States),
The New York Times, Feb. 3, 2000 who worked under the name
Gil Kane and in a few instances
Scott Edwards,Notably when, while working for DC, Kane (and other artists) began to moonlight at Marvel, and needed to conceal their identities. See: Ro, Ronin.
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution, p. 92 (Bloomsbury, 2004), and
Evanier, Mark, , POV Online (column), n.d. Retrieved July 28, 2008. 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 that of
The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (May–July 1971), which, 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.
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