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Carmine Infantino cover/art; 1st app. of Poison Ivy (Pamela Lillian Isley)


The creation of Poison Ivy began with Batman team Robert Kanigher and Shelly Moldoff being inspired by a Nathaniel Hawthorne story. The florid femme fatale — immune to all toxins and able to control plants with her mind — still started out as a swinging '60s creation that would thrive for generations of classic comic-book storytelling. Her romantic entanglements with Batman are the stuff of legend, and Poison Ivy has only thrived in modern times as Harley Quinn's very close partner-in-crime. Legendary artist Carmine Infantino also had a big hand in the helming of this pop-art origin of one of comicdom's most complicated characters. This is where it all began, with fans already clamoring for Ivy to become part of the new big-screen DC Extended Universe.



Artists Information

High School of Art & Design alum Carmine Infantino got his start in the industry working Timely, a precursor to Marvel Comics, where he would do spot work on anthology features, in his first work at DC he helped create Black Canary and began his long-running involvement with the Flash during his Golden Age era, as well as illustrating the original Green Lantern. After the post-war comic book slump Infantino collaborated with writer Robert Kanigher and editor Julius Schwartz to help bring back superheroes and launch the Silver Age by updating the Flash in the pages of Showcase, the reboot was a huge success and led to the superhero rebirth that has continued into the modern day, Infantino's ability to capture speed and movement on a page made his Flash believable and engaging. Carmine was promoted to Art Director and then Publisher at DC over the course of his illustrious career,

Joe Giella is an American comic book artist best known as a DC Comics inker during the late 1950s and 1960s Silver Age of comic books. Giella's career began in the 40's at Hillman and later working with C.C. Beck on Captain Marvel stories at Fawcett. He would also assist on Captain America, Human Torch, Sub-Mariner and other stories at Timely. It was the Silver Age where he would come to his most prominence, working at DC on many of their biggest titles, including Batman, Green Lantern and Strange Adventures, working often with artist Carmine Infantino.

Moldoff is best known for his early work on DC's Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and was one of Bob Kane's primary "ghost artists" on Batman. He co-created the Batman villains Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, the second Clayface, and Bat-Mite, as well as the original heroes Bat-Girl, Batwoman, and Ace the Bat-Hound.