Carmine Infantino

Carmine Infantino's life-long assocation with comics began at an early age when, as a fan, he spent much time trying to find the people who drew the comics. At the age of 15 he met and befriended "Lone Ranger" artist Charles Flanders, who acted as a mentor and teacher to the budding artist. Infantino entered the comics industry in 1942, getting a job with Timely (now Marvel) comics as an illustrator on the "Jack Frost" title. He worked for several other publishers after graduating from art school, before finally landing at DC Comics. It was at DC that Infantino made his name. Superhero comics had all but disappeared in the early 50s, but DC was ready to begin a relaunch of this genre in 1956. DC editor/writer Julius Schwartz approached Infantino about his idea to both revive and revise the Flash. Schwartz' writing and Infantino's modernistic artwork helped make the Flash a big hit, and to also help usher what became known as the "Silver Age" of comics. Infantino went on to work on su