Michael Carlin (born October 6, 1958) 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.
§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 also 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 in 1986, where he became Superman group editor. From 1996-2002, he served as an executive editor at DC Comics.
§Awards
- 1994 Eisner Award for Best Editor, for the Superman titles
§Nominations
- 1992 Eisner Award for Best Editor, for Superman titles and The Psycho
§Appearances within comics
The Batman Adventuresâ€"the first DC Comics spinoff of Batman: The Animated Seriesâ€"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, a pastiche of Superman's death in Superman volume 2 #75, where 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.
§References
§External links
- Mike Carlin at the Grand Comics Database
- Mike Carlin at the Comic Book DB
- Mike Carlin at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
- Mike Carlin at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators