Carmine Infantino Dies At 87,Co-Creator of Barbara Gordon,Wally West & Barry Allen
 

Carmine Infantino is a comic legend who had worked in comics in the early days and had great success in ushering in the Silver Age of Comics,mostly working at DC he did a fair amount of work for Marvel in the 70s'. He is resposible for desgining the costume of Flash as we know him today in the famous Showcase#4 and later designed Barbara Gordon when DC assigned him to design a character for Gardner Fox in "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl" so she could be transferred to the t.v. show. His drawing style was simple and definitely captures the look of 1960s' art especially at DC. He retired from drawing in the early 90s'. In 2004 after drawing two tribute issues to legendary editor Julius Schwartz he had soured relations with DC in his attempt to gain copyrights of the four heroes he co-created Barbara Gordon,Wally West,Barry Allen, and Ralph Dibney. A legend in comics has gone on.
http://comicbook.com/blog/2013/04/04...tino-has-died/

I heard about his death on Twitter about the same time as I heard Roger Ebert's, but didn't understand the impact of his work. Didn't know he designed Flash's costume! RIP Mr. Infantino.

I didn't know of the contributions he made regarding the Flash, etc. I merely knew him from his artwork on Marvel's Star Wars run.

Its interesting to find out things about creators and other celebs one does not know like this. Infantino's art is DC Comics Silver Age look. The two go hand and hand.

That's awful.. Rest in Peace, Mr.Infantino. :tsad:

The man drew some classic comic book covers. Seems like the early issues of Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog (which I collected heavily) were very fond of homaging some of his Flash work.

Shame. He was great.

rest in peace

I recently saw a fun series of cover tributes to him:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources...omage-tribute/