Nationality American Notable works Superman | Name Mike Carlin Role Comic Book Editor | |
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Born Michael Carlin
October 6, 1958 (age 65) ( 1958-10-06 ) Area(s) Writer, Penciller, Editor Awards "Best Editor" Eisner Award (1994) Books Beginnings, Star Trek, the Next Generation: Beginnings Similar People Ron Wilson, Paul Neary, Dan Slott, George Reeves, Bud Collyer | ||
Mike carlin superboy tv series writer interview by rennie cowan
Michael "Mike" Carlin (born October 6, 1958) is a comic book writer, editor, and executive. He has worked principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics since the 1970s.
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- Mike carlin superboy tv series writer interview by rennie cowan
- Mike carlin on dc superboys interview by rennie cowan
- Early life
- Career
- Appearances within comics
- Awards
- Nominations
- References
Mike carlin on dc superboys interview by rennie cowan
Early life
Carlin attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan.
Career
Mike Carlin started out in the business at DC Comics as a summer intern in 1974. He was hired by Marvel Comics as a writer and artist on Crazy Magazine, the company's black-and-white humor title. He later became an assistant editor under Mark Gruenwald and wrote a short run of stories in Captain America as well as the Assistant Editors' Month issue of Marvel Team-Up (Aunt May and Franklin Richards vs. Galactus). Carlin moved to DC Comics as of October 6, 1986, his 28th birthday, and became group editor of the Superman titles. He oversaw "The Death of Superman" storyline and the subsequent introduction of such characters as the Kon-El version of Superboy and John Henry Irons. From 1996–2002, he served as an executive editor at DC Comics. As of 2014, he was DC Entertainment's Director of Animation.
Appearances within comics
The Batman Adventures #13, the first DC Comics spinoff of Batman: The Animated Series — features a screwball trio of incompetent super-villains: the Mastermind (a caricature of Mike Carlin), The Perfessor (a caricature of Dennis O'Neil), and Mr. Nice (a caricature of Archie Goodwin), a super-strong but childishly-innocent super-villain.
Superman: The Man of Steel #75 (Jan. 1998), a pastiche of Superman's death in Superman vol. 2 #75 (Jan. 1993), where Mister Mxyzptlk creates a duplicate of Doomsday. The confrontation culminates with Mxyzptlk meeting the Supreme Being who turns out to be Mike Carlin, the then-editor of the Superman titles, who promptly brings him back to life.