But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

" Kane began penciling professionally there but "They weren't terribly happy with what I was doing. Eschewing that pen name Kane freelanced in the 1960s for Tower Comics' T. [citation needed]
An homage to Kane and to writer John Broome appears in In Darkest Night a novelization of the Justice League animated series.

Eli Katz (April 6 1926 – January 31 2000) who worked under the name Gil Kane and less famously Scott Edward Gil Stack and other pseudonyms was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character. 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.