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48-445: Right Guard targets sports enthusiasts, as portrayed through its advertising from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. From 1969 to 1976, commercials featured a man looking into a mirror to see another man looking back. Chuck McCann played the energetic man who says, "Hi, guy!", looking back at the confused man (played by Bill Fiore ), who yells, "Mona!" The BBDO campaign began with the need to show two different cans of Right Guard, one

96-525: A syndicated newspaper comic strip character with which Kane was familiar as well. Finger, who said he also devised the character's civilian name, Bruce Wayne , wrote the first Batman story, while Kane provided art. Kane, who had already submitted the proposal for Batman at DC and held a contract, is the only person given an official company credit for Batman's creation. Comics historian Ron Goulart , in Comic Book Encyclopedia , refers to Batman as

144-530: A Christmas . He moved into the field of video games, providing voices for True Crime: New York City . He made an appearance in The Aristocrats (2005), with an animated rendition of a "clean" version of the "dirty" joke that serves as the film's subject. In 2006–07 he made appearances on The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd as Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Floyd's father. He has also made multiple appearances as

192-655: A breakout hit. Within a year, Kane hired art assistants Jerry Robinson (initially as an inker ) and George Roussos (backgrounds artist and letterer ). Though Robinson and Roussos worked out of Kane's art studio in The New York Times building , Kane himself did all his drawing at home. Shortly afterward, when DC wanted more Batman stories than Kane's studio could deliver, the company assigned Dick Sprang and other in-house pencilers as " ghost artists ", drawing uncredited under Kane's supervision. Future Justice League writer Gardner Fox wrote some early scripts, including

240-744: A daughter, Deborah. Kane married his second wife, actress Elizabeth Sanders Kane, in 1987. Kane died November 3, 1998, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at age 83. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. Kane was a recipient of the Inkpot Award in 1977, was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996. He

288-548: A few years, he played the holiday-season recurring role of Kris Kringle on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara . In 1965, he and John McCabe were two of the five founding members of the now worldwide society of The Sons of the Desert , an appreciation club for the works of Laurel and Hardy. He had a role in Kojak in 1974. After The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , McCann's motion picture career took

336-728: A judge on Boston Legal , including the two-hour series finale in December 2008. In 2007, McCann played the villain Dalton Kern on the radio drama Adventures in Odyssey and also Navarro and Buck in Random! Cartoons . In 2013, McCann voiced Moseph "Moe" Mastro Giovanni on an episode of Adventure Time , Mayor Grafton on The Garfield Show , and reprised Duckworth, Bouncer Beagle and Burger Beagle in DuckTales Remastered . In 2016, he reprised

384-418: A little tiresome always having him thinking. I found that as I went along Batman needed a Watson to talk to. That's how Robin came to be. Bob called me over and said he was going to put a boy in the strip to identify with Batman. I thought it was a great idea. Kane, who had previously created a sidekick for Peter Pupp, proposed adding a boy named Mercury who would have worn a "super-costume". Robinson suggested

432-537: A normal human, along with the name " Robin ", after Robin Hood books he had read during boyhood, and noting in a 2005 interview he had been inspired by one book's N. C. Wyeth illustrations. The impetus came from Bill's wanting to extend the parameters of the story potential and of the drama. He saw that adding a sidekick would enhance the drama. Also, it enlarged the readership identification. The younger kids could then identify with Robin, which they couldn't with Batman, and

480-421: A party, and Kane later offered him a job ghost writing the strips Rusty and Clip Carson . He recalled that Kane ...had an idea for a character called 'Batman', and he'd like me to see the drawings. I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of ... reddish tights, I believe, with boots ... no gloves, no gauntlets ... with a small domino mask , swinging on

528-500: A rope. He had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. And under it was a big sign ... BATMAN. Finger said he offered such suggestions as giving the character a cowl and scalloped cape instead of wings; adding gloves; leaving the mask's eyeholes blank to connote mystery; and removing the bright red sections of the original costume, suggesting instead a gray-and-black color scheme. Finger additionally said his suggestions were influenced by Lee Falk 's The Phantom ,

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576-568: A supporting role in the 1988 horror film Cameron's Closet . He had a brief appearance in Mel Brooks ' 1993 comedy film Robin Hood: Men in Tights as a villager and also appeared as an innkeeper in another Brooks production; Dracula: Dead and Loving It in 1995. In 1980, McCann and Paul Ashley were reunited for a pair of TV show pilots: Tiny TV , a satirical/variety puppet series aimed at adults for

624-611: A turn back into comedy with many supporting roles and a co-starring turn (with Tim Conway ) in They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978). His most notable post- Hunter films were The Projectionist (1971), Jennifer on My Mind (1971), Linda Lovelace for President (1975), Foul Play (1978), C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979), The Comeback Trail (1982), Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986), Thrashin' (1986) and Herbie Rides Again (1974), where he played Loostgarten, president of Loostgarten Wrecking Company. He had

672-529: Is disputed. Kane's position is that Bill Finger and I created the Joker. Bill was the writer. Jerry Robinson came to me with a playing card of the Joker. That's the way I sum it up. [The Joker] looks like Conrad Veidt —you know, the actor in The Man Who Laughs , [the 1928 movie based on the novel] by Victor Hugo . ... Bill Finger had a book with a photograph of Conrad Veidt and showed it to me and said, 'Here's

720-544: The Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in the year of 1934. He entered the comics field two years later, in 1936, freelancing original material to editor Jerry Iger 's comic book Wow, What a Magazine! , including his first pencil and ink work on the serial Hiram Hick . The following year, Kane began to work at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger , which was one of the first comic book "packagers" that produced comics on demand for publishers entering

768-510: The "creation of artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger". According to Kane, "Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate ... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective. The character debuted in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) and proved

816-452: The 1960s, he parlayed his Batman status into minor celebrity. He enjoyed a post-comics career in television animation , creating the characters Courageous Cat and Cool McCool , and as a painter showed his work in art galleries , although some of these paintings were produced by ghost artists. DC Comics named Kane in 1985 as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great . In 1989, Kane published

864-474: The 1973 television film The Girl Most Likely to... and was a regular on Norman Lear 's All That Glitters . In addition, he co-starred with Bob Denver in CBS's Saturday-morning sitcom Far Out Space Nuts , which he co-created. The 1970s also brought him fame in a long-running series of commercials for Right Guard antiperspirant: he was the enthusiastic neighbor with the catch phrase "Hi, guy!" who appeared on

912-686: The 1990s, McCann co-founded and participated in Yarmy's Army, a group of comedians and character actors of his generation who gathered regularly to cheer up Don Adams ' brother Dick Yarmy , who was dying of cancer. A group with a massive array of comic talent, its members included Harvey Korman , Shelley Berman , Tim Conway , and many others. After Yarmy's death, the group stayed together to cheer themselves up since increasing age and health problems made it increasingly more difficult for them to get steady work. In addition to having monthly dinners, they performed in various group-directed shows in select venues around

960-527: The Bat-Man ." Kane said his influences for the character included actor Douglas Fairbanks 's film portrayal of the swashbuckler Zorro ; Leonardo da Vinci 's diagram of the ornithopter , a flying machine with huge bat-like wings; and the 1930 film The Bat Whispers , based on Mary Rinehart 's mystery novel The Circular Staircase (1908). Bill Finger joined Bob Kane's nascent studio in 1938. An aspiring writer and part-time shoe salesperson, he had met Kane at

1008-552: The Cuckoo Bird in commercials for General Mills . He had even been one of the stars of Turn-On , producer George Schlatter 's offshoot of Laugh-In . In the 1970s, McCann's life and career shifted west, and he relocated to Los Angeles. He made frequent guest appearances on network television shows including Little House on the Prairie , Bonanza , Columbo , The Rockford Files and The Bob Newhart Show . He appeared in

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1056-604: The Joker'. Jerry Robinson had absolutely nothing to do with it. But he'll always say he created it till he dies. He brought in a playing card , which we used for a couple of issues for him [the Joker] to use as his playing card. Robinson, whose original Joker playing card was on public display in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from September 16, 2006 to January 28, 2007, and

1104-772: The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta , Georgia from October 24, 2004 to August 28, 2005, has countered that: Bill Finger knew of Conrad Veidt because Bill had been to a lot of the foreign films. Veidt ... had this clown makeup with the frozen smile on his face (classic). When Bill saw the first drawing of the Joker, he said, 'That reminds me of Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs .' He said he would bring in some shots of that movie to show me. That's how that came about. I think in Bill's mind, he fleshed out

1152-420: The autobiography Batman and Me , with an updated edition Batman and Me: The Saga Continues , in 1996. Kane worked as a consultant on the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels with directors Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher . Stan Lee interviewed Kane in the documentary series The Comic Book Greats . Kane married his first wife, Beverly, in the 1940s, and the two divorced in 1957. They had

1200-520: The cable market, and LBS Children's Theater , a children's film anthology show where McCann and the Paul Ashley Puppets were to introduce reruns of primetime animated TV specials and theatrical cartoons from Europe. However, Paul Ashley was forced to leave the projects when he proved to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease . Tiny TV never reached fruition, but LBS Children's Theater was picked up for national syndication in 1983. McCann emceed

1248-415: The comic books but, unknown to DC, had hired his own personal ghosts, including Lew Schwartz and Sheldon Moldoff from 1953 to 1967. Bill Finger recalled that Robin was an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob. As I said, Batman was a combination of [Douglas] Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes. Holmes had his Watson. The thing that bothered me was that Batman didn't have anyone to talk to, and it got

1296-551: The concept of the character. Robinson added, however, "If you read the Batman historian [E. Nelson] Bridwell , he had one interview where he interviewed Bill Finger and he said no, the Joker was created by me—an acknowledgement. He can be credited and Bob himself, we all played a role in it. ... He wrote the script of that, so he really was co-creator, and Bob and I did the visuals, so Bob was also." According to comics historian Les Daniels , "nearly everyone seems to agree that Two-Face

1344-597: The country. McCann continued voice work for cartoons, playing Jollo, Bookworm, Bump-On-A-Log, and Woof in 1992's King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow . One of his best-known voiceover roles was The Thing in the Fantastic Four and Hulk animated series, as well as the villain Blizzard in another animated adaptation, Iron Man . He also played Heff Heffalump in Disney's The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh . He

1392-456: The former Viola Hennessy. McCann started doing radio voiceovers at the age of six. By the time he was 12 years old, he founded a fan club for Laurel and Hardy and did impressions of Oliver Hardy . He worked his way up to regional star status by apprenticing on a number of children's shows, such as Captain Kangaroo . McCann got his big break performing on The Sandy Becker Show on WABD after

1440-575: The humor features "Ginger Snap" in More Fun Comics , "Oscar the Gumshoe" for Detective Comics , and "Professor Doolittle" for Adventure Comics . For that last title he went on to do his first adventure strip, "Rusty and his Pals". In early 1939, DC's success with the seminal superhero Superman in Action Comics prompted editors to scramble for more such heroes. In response, Bob Kane conceived "

1488-470: The new medium during its late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age . Among his work there was the talking animal feature "Peter Pupp"—which belied its look with overtones of "mystery and menace" —published in the U.K. comic magazine Wags and reprinted in Fiction House 's Jumbo Comics . Kane also produced work through Eisner & Iger for two of the companies that would later merge to form DC Comics, including

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1536-656: The older ones with Batman. It extended the appeal on a lot of levels. The new character, an orphaned circus performer named Dick Grayson , came to live with Bruce Wayne as his young ward in Detective Comics #38 (April 1940) and would inspire many similar sidekicks throughout the Golden Age of comic books. Batman's nemesis the Joker was introduced near that same time, in Batman #1 (Spring 1940). Credit for that character's creation

1584-853: The original host vacationed to South America. The best-selling The First Family , an early 1960s LP record album which lampooned the newly elected United States President John F. Kennedy and his family, included McCann among its voices. Until 1975, McCann hosted comedy/variety TV puppet shows in the New York area with Paul Ashley , featuring the Paul Ashley Puppets . Together, they did The Puppet Hotel for WNTA-TV , Channel 13; then Laurel & Hardy & Chuck , Let's Have Fun , and The Chuck McCann Show for WPIX , Channel 11; and finally, The Chuck McCann Show , The Great Bombo's Magic Cartoon Circus Lunchtime Show , and Chuck McCann's Laurel and Hardy Show for WNEW-TV , Channel 5. In addition, Chuck

1632-522: The original incarnation of Clayface . According to Kane, he drew the Penguin after being inspired by the then advertising mascot of Kool cigarettes—a penguin with a top hat and cane. Finger, however, claimed that he created the villain as a caricature of the aristocratic type, because "stuffy English gentlemen" reminded him of emperor penguins . In 1966, Kane retired from DC Comics, choosing to focus on fine art . As Kane's comic-book work tapered off in

1680-538: The other side of a shared medicine cabinet, opposite actor Bill Fiore . McCann appeared as Wally Stone in the Starsky & Hutch season 2 episode "Murder on Stage 17", in which he played an ex-comedian turned murderer. In this episode, McCann's talent as an actor was spotlighted, and he was able to portray various characters throughout the episode. McCann impersonated Oliver Hardy in commercials for various products (teaming with Jim MacGeorge as Stan Laurel ), and for

1728-473: The park's Moon Bowl entertainment venue that featured celebrity singers and other performers. McCann's ties to Freedomland are featured in the book Freedomland U.S.A.: The Definitive History (Theme Park Press, 2019). By the end of the 1960s, he had appeared in the 1968 film The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and performed regularly on CBS 's The Garry Moore Show . He began an animation acting career, doing everything from Bob Kane 's Cool McCool to Sonny

1776-618: The role of the Amoeba Boys in the 2016 reboot of The Powerpuff Girls . In 2017, McCann recorded a comedy podcast program, "Trump: The Last Family" with Kevin Sean Michaels , a modern send-up to the best-selling The First Family LP of the 1960s. McCann married Suzanne Conner in 1958 and had a son. They divorced in 1966 and he later married model Eileen Somerstrad and had 2 daughters. They divorced in 1977 and he married his agent Betty Fanning, whom he remained married to until his death. He

1824-438: The series alone because Ashley did not live long enough to see the show, having died on September 3, 1984. In the 1980s, McCann reprised a number of his best sketches from his New York television days as interstitial material for a two-hour presentation of cartoons on KCOP-TV , Channel 13 in Los Angeles, assisted by Bob Ridgely. McCann also voiced characters for various projects by The Walt Disney Company , such as Dreamfinder in

1872-468: The theme park attraction Journey Into Imagination , and several characters including Duckworth, Burger Beagle and Bouncer Beagle in the 1987 animated series DuckTales . In 1989, McCann returned to daily children's television one more time with Chuck McCann's Funstuff, produced by fellow New York kid show legend Sonny Fox . Chuck McCann's Funstuff was seen weekday mornings on KHJ-TV from Monday, September 18, 1989, until Friday, October 13, 1989. In

1920-482: The traditional product, and the other with a more advanced formula. Gillette's "Cool Spray" form factor (introduced in 2004) sprayed deodorant vertically from the top of a rounded cylinder upon depression of a side-mounted trigger. No protective cap was needed; a twist-motion procedure locked and unlocked the contents. The form, by design firm Herbst Lazar Bell, won the 2005 personal care award at The Institute of Packaging Professionals' AmeriStar packaging awards. The form

1968-481: The two-part story "The Monk" that introduced some of The Batman's first "Bat-" equipment. In 1943, Kane left the Batman comic books to focus on penciling the daily Batman newspaper comic strip . DC Comics artists ghosting the comic-book stories now included Jack Burnley and Win Mortimer , with Robinson moving up as penciler and Fred Ray contributing some covers. After the strip finished in 1946, Kane returned to

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2016-506: Was Kane's brainchild exclusively". Catwoman , originally introduced by Kane with no costume as "the Cat", was partially inspired by his cousin, Ruth Steel. Kane, a frequent moviegoer, mentioned that Jean Harlow was a model for the design and added that "I always felt that women were feline". Kane created the Scarecrow and drew his first appearance, which was scripted by Finger. Kane also created

2064-722: Was a close friend of Hugh Hefner and a regular at the Playboy Mansion . McCann died on April 8, 2018, of congestive heart failure in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 83. He was cremated and his remains are in Forest Lawn Memorial Park . He is survived by his third wife, Betty Fanning and two daughters from his second marriage. His son Sean, from his first marriage, died in 2009. Bob Kane Robert Kane ( né Kahn / k ɑː n / ; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998)

2112-596: Was also the voice of Leatherneck on the second season of G.I. Joe . Throughout the 1990s and into the new millennium, he has been in commercials at Christmas time, he has played Santa Claus for one product or another—and TV/film gigs ( Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ). In the 2000s, McCann appeared in They Call Him Sasquatch (2003) and Dorf da Bingo King (with his old pal, Tim Conway ). He supplied voices for The Powerpuff Girls and Mickey's Twice Upon

2160-559: Was an American actor, comedian, puppeteer, commercial presenter and television host. His career spanned over 70 years. He was best known for his work in presenting children's television programming and animation, as well as his own program The Chuck McCann Show and he also recorded comedy parody style albums. McCann was born in Brooklyn, New York , to Valentine J. McCann (whose father had performed in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West ) and

2208-737: Was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created Batman (with Bill Finger ) and most early related characters for DC Comics . He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996. Robert Kahn was born in New York City , New York . His parents, Augusta and Herman Kahn, an engraver, were of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future Spirit creator Will Eisner , Robert Kahn graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and then legally changed his name to Robert Kane. He studied art at Cooper Union before joining

2256-403: Was discontinued in 2012. Right Guard comes in the forms of invisible solid, deodorant stick, clear gel, and aerosol. It used to come in a clear stick, but this appears to have been discontinued by the manufacturer without notice. This product article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chuck McCann Charles John Thomas McCann (September 2, 1934 – April 8, 2018)

2304-431: Was the comedy sidekick on WPIX's long-running rock music showcase, The Clay Cole Show . During this time, McCann appeared at many New York area venues, including Palisades Amusement Park and Freedomland U.S.A. , to meet and entertain children. At Freedomland, McCann hosted a yo-yo contest, filmed several Halloween specials, filmed a WPIX Freedomland special with other children's show hosts and appeared with Clay Cole at

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