Comic Book Legend Passes Away 1925 – 2013

Yesterday comic book legend Carmine Infantino passed away at the age of 87. The news was announced by Vanguard Productions publisher J. David Spurlock through is facebook page.

Infantino was born in Brooklyn in 1925 and began his professional career in the comic book business by inking Frank Giacoia’s pencil drawings and Jack Frost stories in Marvel’s predecessor Timely in their USA Comics 3 in 1942. 

By 1956 he became one of the most important people in the comic book world, by inspiring the Silver Age of comics, bringing back titles like The Flash, but with a re-design in both costume and origin. 

In 1961 with “The Flash of Two Worlds” he introduced the concept of Earth Two, a parallel world that was the foundations for DC’s Multiverse which is still used today not only in comic books but in games, animated movies and tv shows. 

In 1964 he added the yellow oval to the symbol on the chest of Batman. In the mid 60’s he co-created the Barbara Gordon version of Batgirl for the massive tv show Batman, starring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as the Robin. 

By 1971 he became the publisher of DC Comics, after he had risen to art director and editorial director. In the late 70’s Carmine Infantino returned to Marvel, drawing the Star Wars comics, this helped Marvel from financial collapse.

The Comic Buyer’s Guide Millennium Poll named him one of the greatest penciller of all time.

Carmine Infantino won at least 14 awards, one National Cartoonists Society Award for the best comic book in 1958, he won twelve Alley Awards for different titles and categories, including one for being the person  "who exemplifies the spirit of innovation and inventiveness in the field of comic art". In 1985 he was named as one of the honorees by DC Comics, in the company’s 50^th anniversary publication.

For more on the Golden and Silver Age of comics see here.

Here are some work by Carmine Infantino, followed by some of the titles he worked on.

In his work you can see:

DC Comics:

Superman

Nightwing

Green Lantern

Deadman

Black Canary

Detective Chimp

Batman

Teen Titans (Not cartoon show)

The Brave and the Bold (not cartoon show)

Flash

Justice League of America

Legion of Super-Heroes (Not Cartoon show)     

 Phantom Stranger

Red Tornado

Adam Strange

Gorilla Grod

Supergirl

Marvel:

Avengers

Captain America

Daredevil

Defenders

Ghost Rider

Howard the Duck

Incredible Hulk

Iron Man

Doctor Strange

Star-Lord

Ms. Marvel

Nova

Spider-Woman

Star Wars

Captain Marvel

Warren:

Creepy

Earie

Vampirella

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