Innovative Comic Artist Gil Kane Dead at 73

Staff -- Library Journal, 2/7/2000

Noted comic artist Gil Kane, who drew Green Lantern, Spider Man, the Hulk, Atom, Captain Marvel, the Avengers, etc., died of lymphoma in Miami, January 31, at age 73. Kane is credited with pumping fresh blood into the many characters he was assigned while working at both Marvel and DC during his career, winning him the loyalty of millions of readers over several decades. It was such innovation that lead him to create comics based on everything from the standard superheroes to Wagner's operas. Marvel founder Stan Lee praised Kane, saying "he was fast, he was dependable, he had great storytelling sense...I would just give him a rough idea of what I wanted and turn him loose." Kane's wife told the press that he was still working on drawing comics until two weeks before his death.