GIL KANE!!!

Eli Katz was born in Riga, Latvia, acoording to his notes that appeared in a couple of different places, I recall reading that from memory, I guess these remarks were in the first BLACKMARK paperback, I am not sure where else, but, what, you ask, does this have to do with Gil Kane?
Eli Katz took on the name Gil Kane, and ended up having about a fifty years long career drawing comic books under that name, that's what!!!
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Gil was a teenager when he began drawing comic books, he worked with Simon & Kirby on their features in ADVENTURE COMICS, which was quite an achievement in itself, but Gil ended up drawing a long list of characters.
For DC, Gil was _the_ cartoonist on GREEN LANTERN and THE ATOM during the 1960's. He also drew THE FLASH for DC in that decade. He drew THE INCREDIBLE HULK and CAPTAIN AMERICA for MARVEL COMICS in that decade, as well as the re-designed version of MARVEL's character, CAPTAIN MARVEL, not to be confused with the earlier version, from the 1940's, and drew SPIDER-MAN for MARVEL in the 1970's, not to forget his drawing "The Raven", for the wonderful T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS series, created, in part, by the legendary Wallace Wood.
Also during the 1960's, Gil developed the more adult comics magazine HIS NAME IS... SAVAGE!, which was a stunning and violent comic book about US Presidential assassinations, and, while it seems to have been a failure, I believe that this was caused by distribution problems, not by any lack of talent on Gil's part.
Gil also developed the paperback graphic novel BLACKMARK, which is a lovely work, and, though subsequent paperback books of the series never saw print, FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS later reprinted the first one, and, I believe, may have printed the second one also.
Gil also drew covers for some best-sellers by John Jakes, no small accomplishment, that!!!
Gil drew TARZAN and STAR HAWKS for newspaper syndication as well, and returned to draw more GREEN LANTERN jobs for DC, and a new version of one of his old characters for DC, in the series SWORD OF THE ATOM.
In the late 1980's, Gil worked drawing "storyboards" for the Ruby-Spears animated series SUPERMAN, for Saturday morning broadcast, teaming Kane with comic book writer Marv Wolfman, whom he had worked with earlier in the decade, on SUPERMAN and ACTION COMICS. For reasons unknown, this animated SUPERMAN series is ignored, and little known, by today's fans, but I liked it!!!
Another major of achievement of Gil's was drawing the hardcover comic book, THE LIFE STORY OF THE FLASH, a beautifully produced long-form comic book,
One of Gil's final jobs was also for DC, working with the great inker, Kevin Nowlan, on a lovely SUPERMAN "Elseworlds" story, "Distant Fires", which was printed in "prestige" format.
Mr. Kane passed away in January, 2000.