Mike Carlin

Mike Carlin

Mike Carlin at San Diego Comic-Con International in 2007
Born Michael Carlin
(1958-10-06) October 6, 1958
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, Penciller, Editor
Notable works
 Superman
Awards "Best Editor" Eisner Award (1994)

Michael "Mike" Carlin (born October 6, 1958)[1] is a comic book writer and editor. He has worked principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics since the 1970s.

Early life

Carlin attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan.[2]

Career

Mike Carlin started out in the business at DC Comics as a summer intern in 1974.[3] 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[4] 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).[5] Carlin moved to DC in 1986, where he became Superman group editor. From 1996-2002, he served as an executive editor at DC Comics.

Awards

Nominations

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.[8]

Superman: The Man of Steel #75, a pastiche of Superman's death in Superman vol. 2|Superman]] volume 2 #75, 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.

Bibliography

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

References

  1. ↑ Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Iola, Wisconsin. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  2. ↑ Talon, Durwin S. (2007). Panel Discussions: Design in Sequential Art Storytelling. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 1-893905-14-4.
  3. ↑ Superman vol. 2, #4 (April 1987) letters column
  4. ↑ "Bullpen Bulletins," Marvel comics cover-dated February 1984.
  5. ↑ DeFalco, Tom; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1980s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 216. ISBN 978-0756641238. The January-dated books in 1984 featured a company-wide event that became known as 'Assistant Editor's Month'...a humorous story in Marvel Team-Up #137 featured Aunt May as the new herald of Galactus.
  6. ↑ "1994 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees and Winners". Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on July 25, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  7. ↑ "1992 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees and Winners". Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  8. ↑ Batman: Gotham Adventures #13 at the Grand Comics Database
Preceded by
J. M. DeMatteis		 Captain America writer
1984–1985 		Succeeded by
Mark Gruenwald
Preceded by
Andy Helfer		 Action Comics editor
1987–1996 		Succeeded by
K.C. Carlson
Preceded by
Andy Helfer		 Adventures of Superman editor
1987–1996 		Succeeded by
K.C. Carlson
Preceded by
Andy Helfer		 Superman (vol. 2) editor
1987–1996 		Succeeded by
K.C. Carlson
Preceded by
n/a		 Superman: The Man of Steel editor
1991–1996 		Succeeded by
K.C. Carlson
Preceded by
Dick Giordano		 DC Universe Executive Editor
1996-2002 		Succeeded by
Dan DiDio
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