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The auction market for vintage comics has been incredibly strong over the past few months, but even in that context, this is an extremely impressive showing — and it's not over.  Detective Comics #359 is the first appearance of Batgirl (Barbara Gordon).  The cover story, "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!" was written by Garnder[...]

Batman artwork by Carmine Infantino is not going to pop up for purchase all that often, let alone something like this On auction over at Heritage Auctions right now is a piece of artwork from the iconic artist from the Kenner toys packaging for the animated series line in 1993 This stuff just does not[...]

Arlen Schumer, author of the Silver Age of Comic Book Art, is giving two more of his live 'visualecture' webinars next week for the New York Adventure Club, on the life and works of Carmine Infantino and Joe Kubert Priced at $10, he's running them during the early afternoon on the East Coast, rather than[...]

The cover is a beautiful Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson piece, featuring the dynamic duo looking at each other with hate in their eyes, while Poison Ivy stands there looking smug Has she used her toxins to turn the pair against each other? The issue of Batman #181 up for auction at ComicConnect Image Credit: ComicConnect Another[...]

It was a rather large story that took place in the Flash #323 through Flash #350 and was written by Cary Bates and drawn by Carmine Infantino Instead of the Thinker, though, it focused on the Flash being accused of the murder of the Reverse-Flash Plus the biggest difference, on the show it's Barry Allen[...]

But let's put that aside for now and focus on the comic book history of Abra Kadabra. Abra Kadabra first appeared in The Flash #128 in 1962, created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino. In the 64th century, science has made stage magic obsolete. But one Citizen Abra wants to be a magician so bad that he is[...]

For the 75th anniversary of the birth of the Flash, DC Entertainment has put together this video of the character through the three quarters of a century.

Gilbert, Jim Starlin, Joe Kubert, Arthur Adams, Walter Simonson, Paul Norris, Mike Grell, Mary Wilshire, Andy Kubert, Gil Kane, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bob Kane, Curt Swan, George Pérez, Howard Chaykin, Jan Duursema, Carmine Infantino, Jim Steranko, Gray Morrow, Neal Adams, Murphy Anderson, Dave Gibbons, Gilbert Hernandez, Dan Spiegle, Frank Thorne, Ramona Fradon, Matt Wagner, Ernie Colon, Irwin[...]

DC Comics recently published Tales Of The Batman: Carmine Infantino collecting the stories that turned Batman away from his more campy side and in the direction of the Batman of today But are the choice of issues all they're cracked up to be? The solicitation reads, The "new look" Batman made his debut in 1964, and[...]

Schwartz had a huge hand in what DC Comics is today but that hand was played behind the scenes. Carmine Infantino – An artist and editor, Infantino helped shaped DC Comics Silver-Age by taking the original Flash's Mercury inspired costume and replacing it with something much more sleek and iconic He also went on to be[...]

Hill did it all." – Carmine Infantino (Artist and former DC Editor) Now a campaign to honor Bill Finger is underway, led by Nobleman and gaining some very big name support… the campaign is to get a Google Doodle for Bill Finger this year for what would have been his 100th Birthday, February 8th.   Fellow nerds, please[...]

The strip was written by Batman editor Whitney Ellsworth and drawn by Shelly Moldoff, Joe Giella and Carmine Infantino The strip was very well received by readers. "Ellsworth and the artists perfectly captured the flavor of the television show," collection editor Dean Mullaney says 'It's a tremendous amount of fun, both as nostalgia and as a unique creation[...]

 It's good timing, as I've been thinking recently that with the 75th Anniversary of Batman's first appearance in Detective Comics #27 coming up in about 8 months (the issue hit the stands around the week of April 18, 1939, and I know of one copy with an April 19 arrival date stamp), it's time to[...]

Yet for someone who I'd place alongside Kirby, Ditko, and Steranko as the greatest of Silver Age artists – and who, in my opinion, was the best artist DC had seen after Dick Sprang – the number of attendees at the Carmine Infantino Tribute Panel was disappointingly small, especially considering that Carmine had just passed[...]

Eric talked about Kim championing some artists, including Jason which he wasn't convinced would do so well. [audio:http://www.thecomicbooks.com/Audio/2013-07-19-SD-CarmineInfantinoTribute.mp3] Carmine Infantino Tribute (49:22, 45.1mb) On the panel were Jon B, Cooke, Elliot S! Maggin, Paul Levitz, Martin Pasko and moderating the panel was J David Spurlock Carmine Infantino was a long time extremely important artist, editor and publisher, much[...]