The Carmine Infantino 1999 Shoot Interview by David Armstrong

David Armstrong interviewed Golden & Silver Age great, Carmine Infantino in 1999 about his entry into comic books with Fox Comics and Timely, meeting Harry Chesler, working at DC Comics with Sheldon Mayer, meeting Alex Toth and Joe Kubert, his favorite inkers & movies, his DC covers, the business side of DC, corporate shakeups, Sol Harrison, Irwin Donenfeld, Jack Liebowitz, the buyout from Kinney, Mike Sekowsky, All-American Comics, Mario Puzo, Robert Kanigher, merchandising and why he left DC Comics. Interview conducted, recorded and copyrighted to David Armstrong. Remastered, edited, timestamped and postproduction by Alex Grand. #CarmineInfantino #ComicBooks #Superhero #StanLee #JoeKubert #JuliusSchwartz #DCComics #Flash #Marvel #MarioPuzo #Superman #SilverAge #GoldenAge 📜 Chapters 00:00 Drawing & Formal training 00:37 Biggest influences 00:59 First professional piece? 01:35 Fox Comics, Timely Comics 02:48 After high school | Harry Chesler 03:47 Learning composition design 04:29 Learning story flow? 05:03 Working at DC | Sheldon Mayer 06:24 Alex Toth and Joe Kubert 07:24 Working for DC at night & for Timely at day 07:59 Your main inkers? 08:29 Learn from the inkers? 09:05 Hard time in the 1950s 09:45 Different subjects required different emotions 10:28 Alfred Hitchcock 11:05 Movies influenced storytelling 11:35 Theatre with Alex Toth 12:13 Challenges in the 1950s 13:37 Influences from architecture? 14:35 Any favorite stories or characters? 15:18 Where did your vignette style come from? 16:10 DC covers 17:57 Business side to comics 19:15 Distribution is key | Sol Harrison 20:00 DC Comics bought by Kinney 21:38 Becoming President of the company 22:45 Jack Liebowitz | Superman 25:36 All American Comics vs DC 26:31 Publisher roles: merchandising, films, or TV? 27:43 Mario Puzo 28:20 Superhero merchandising licenses 28:54 When Kinney became Warner 29:46 Kinney management 31:15 American comics and European comics 32:30 Why leave DC? 33:19 Sales figures. 33:47 Did your relationship changed with editors, writers, or artists? 34:18 Julius Schwartz 35:50 Robert Kanigher 36:35 Joe Kubert 37:23 Mike Sekowsky - St. John 38:36 Being publisher phased you out of the business? 39:01 Favorite remembrances? 🤔 Hope you enjoyed this video! 👍 If you enjoy this video, please like and share it. 👉 Don't forget to subscribe to this channel for more updates. 🚫 Subscribe by clicking this link 🔗 https://bit.ly/3i ⚡️ Swim into our playlists ⚡️ 🎶 CBH Docuseries by Alex Grand 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-Docuseries 🎶 CBH Interview Series 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-InterviewSeries 🎶 History of DC Comics Video Series by Alex Grand 🔗 https://bit.ly/3CrGqnV 🎶 Origin of Marvel Comics Video Series by Alex Grand 🔗 https://bit.ly/3yx4gvV 🎶 CBH Videos in Order of Episode Number 🔗 https://bit.ly/3lBl29H 🎶 Comic Book Flip Thru 🔗 https://bit.ly/3xz8QIO 🎶 Historic Footage 🔗 https://bit.ly/3AiukLR 🎶 CBH Motion Comics 🔗 https://bit.ly/3yvHMLX 🎶 CBH Panel Series 🔗 https://bit.ly/3s36voy 🎶 Comic Book Historians Playlists 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-Playlists ⚡️ Our Socials ⚡️ ✅ Facebook:   / comicbookhistorians   ✅ Instagram:   / comicbookhistorians   ✅ Twitter:   / comichistorians   🎙 Audio Podcasts 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.buzzsprou... 🌐 Website 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.com/ ✊ You want to support our project? We'd be happy for your support on Patreon. ⚡️ Check us out on Patreon 🔗   / comicbookhistorians   󰛝 An extra special thank-you to all my kind Patreon supporters. 🙏 Thank you for watching