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Carmine Infantino is the artistic and publishing visionary whose mark on thecomic book industry pushed conventional boundaries. As a penciler and coverartist, he was a major force in defining the Silver Age of comics, co-creatingthe modern Flash and resuscitating the Batman franchise in the 1960s. As artdirector and publisher, he steered DC Comics through the late 1960s and 1970s,one of the most creative and fertile periods in their long history. Join historian and inker Jim Amash (Alter Ego magazine, ArchieComics) and Eric Nolen-Weathington (Modern Masters book series) asthey document the life and career of Carmine Infantino, in the most candid andthorough interview this controversial living legend has ever given, lavishlyillustrated with the incredible images that made him a star. CarmineInfantino: Penciler, Publisher, Provocateur shines a light on theartist's life, career, and contemporaries, and uncovers details about thecomics industry never made public until now. |