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Copyright War For The Flash (Comics Artist Carmine Infantino Sues DC Comics, Inc.)
Newsday.com ^
| 6/5/04
| Bloomberg News
Posted on 06/05/2004 12:13:10 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
By 1956 The Flash, 26, was slowing down, when an editor at DC Comics commissioned Carmine Infantino to breathe some life into the speedy superhero, a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court says.
Infantino, a 79-year-old New York illustrator, says he revived the declining character, originally created in 1940, and now he wants a federal judge to declare that he, not DC parent Time Warner Inc., owns the rights to the fastest man alive. Infantino says in his suit that he's also the creator of Batgirl, and he wants a court to acknowledge that too.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: batgirl; carmineinfantino; comicbooks; comics; dccomics; flash
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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posted on
06/05/2004 12:14:52 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Hmmmm.....
BTW, I received "The Amazing World of Carmine Infantino" as a Xmas present last year. Highly recommended for comics fans!
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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posted on
06/05/2004 6:51:35 AM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(Big DC Comics fan as a kid in the late 1950s through mid 60s)
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
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posted on
06/05/2004 6:56:16 AM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(Big DC Comics fan as a kid in the late 1950s through mid 60s)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; PJ-Comix
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posted on
06/05/2004 7:02:27 AM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(Big DC Comics fan as a kid in the late 1950s through mid 60s)
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