>>87040821No, it's real, at least on some books. Here's Carmine Infantino talking about some of his early Flash covers.
Prof: What is it like to interpret a script and lay it down in pencil?
Carmine Infantino: Oh. Well the way we worked, Schwartz and I, was very different. I would create covers, and then he would write stories around them. It sounds crazy, doesn't it?
Prof: Yeah, it sounds exactly backward.
CI: Yeah, but let me explain something. I would do one thing…remember the Trickster?
Prof: Yeah.
CI: He's running in mid-air, right?
Prof: Right. [cover of The Flash #113]
CI: Flash came to a stop on the cliff behind him.
Prof: Right.
CI: Well, that's a cliff-hanger. You want to see what the hell's going on with it. And that's how it worked. So I'd create these covers…you look back at all the covers; they all have that kind of theme somehow on them. They're all cliff-hangers in one way or another, and they're very effective.
Prof: Yeah, apparently so. I read something somewhere, I don't know if it's true, that you were trying to stump Gardner Fox by coming up with the "Flash of Two Worlds" cover.
CI: That was Julie, not Fox. Yeah, because I'd do a cover, and dammit, they'd write the story around it, so I was getting very upset by this, so I said, "I'll fix you." I did a cover with some guy in the foreground and two Flashes running up, he's saying, "Help!" and they're both saying, "I'm coming!" So I put it on his desk and I said, "Here. Solve this!" and I walked out. By the time I got home my phone rang. He said, "We got it solved. I went through hell." I couldn't believe it. It was a great story, a terrific story.
