The production proofs are certainly interesting and a valuable find, but what I found more striking are the pre-Batman comics Kane had done in his early teens. The small sampling of Pat O'Molly strips below show a clear interest in cartooning as a commercial endeavor and, more to the point if you read the comics themselves, Kane's conscious recognition of what work-for-hire was relative to artistic creation. Keep in mind that Kane was only 14 or 15 at the time, and he was already making a distinction between commerical art and capital-A Art, as well as the difference between a cartoonist and the person who owns the cartoon! That he displayed such an early awareness of the idea, even if he didn't fully understand and/or appreciate its significance, speaks to how and why he was later able to strike such a phenomenal deal with DC compared to other contemporary creators like Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster and Bill Finger.
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