Taking A Second Look At The Carmine Infantino Lawsuit



Via Dan Nadel comes this lengthy posting and subsequent musing on the lawsuit filed in the middle of the last decade by Carmine Infantino against DC Comics for a bunch of characters, including nearly all of those affiliated with the title Infantino may be best known in a creative-contribution sense, The Flash. The post has a nice summary of folks' objections -- that Infantino waited until it was more politically expedient and perhaps legally savvy to file suit in the first place, and that some of his claims as to the nature of his contributions (including saying he was assigned covers to inspire writers) and to specific characters that lack a clear creative-credit pedigree, strained credulity. The suit was dismissed in 2004. Still, it stands as both an indication the company may not have always done right by certain major contributors and -- even ironically -- a signifier through the dearth of similar suits that work may have been done by DC to better sew up certain claims: a practice that's been rumored for years.

The post also includes damning analysis from Mike Esposito.
 
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