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.

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📜 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?

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