R.I.P. Carmine Infantino, a legendary force in comic books
Carmine Infantino, a legendary figure in the Golden and Silver Ages of mainstream comic books, has died at 87. When Infantino was a high school student, he spent a summer working for Harry "A" Chesler, who ran one of the earliest comic book "packaging" studios. His first published work, inking Frank Giacoia's pencils on a Jack Frost story for Timely (later Marvel) Comics, appeared in 1942, when Infantino was 16. The book's editor, Joe Simon, offered him a staff job, but Infantino's father wouldn't let him quit school to take it. After graduating, Infantino worked as an artist for Simon and Jack Kirby's Prize Comics, DC Comics, Hilmman Periodicals, and other publishers, working on such characters as Airboy, the Heap, and the Golden Age Green Lantern.
In 1956, Infantino and writer Robert Kanigher co-created the new Flash, Barry Allen. Their work on the series inaugurated ...
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