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The Lost World; Gil Kane art
Adapted from the 1960 movie "The Lost World." Photo cover of Professor Challenger (as played by Claude Rains), Ed Malone (David Hedison), Lord John Roxton (Michael Rennie), Jennifer Holmes (Jill St. John), and Professor Summerlee (Richard Haydn). The Lost World, script by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (original novel), Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett (screenplay), and Paul S. Newman (comic adaptation), pencils by Gil Kane; Determined to prove his discovery of a lost world in the Amazon jungle, Professor Challenger leads an expedition by helicopter to a plateau filled with prehistoric beasts. Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Paul S. Newman.


Artist Information

Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually 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, 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.