Mike Carlin

Michael " Mike" Carlin ( born October 6, 1958) is an American comic book writer and publishing editor.

Life and work

Carlin began working in the 1970s as an editor for various U.S. publishers. In this context, he was entrusted with the editorial support of various magazines and comics, before he finally decided in the early 1980 in favor of his work in the comic book industry.

For Marvel Comics he hired himself soon after the first time in the form of artistic work as an author and illustrator of stories for the humorous magazine Crazy Magazine, before he was promoted as Assistant Editor Assistant to the Publishing Director of Marvel, Mark Gruenwald. After a few more Author jobs - including the Captain America Series (1985-1986) - Carlin eventually switched to Marvel's main rival, DC Comics.

At DC Carlin took over in 1986 as the successor of Julius Schwartz, the editorial management of the " Superman department " of the publishing house, which is responsible for the artistic design and coordination of the comic books to the famous comic book heroes from the planet Krypton and thus the control of one of the most important Trade Marks and resources of the entertainment company Time Warner, to the DC Comics heard exerts. Among the series that included published under Carlin's aegis, among other Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Superman, Superman: Man of Steel and Superman: man of Tomorrow, as well as the spin-off series Superboy, Supergirl and Steel. Among the most spectacular decisions which the Superman department precipitated under Carlin's line, decisions as to let die and resurrect Superman ( 1993) to marry him (1996) and his nemesis Lex Luthor in the fiction of Superman stories as U.S. president included are chosen to leave. Added to this was the marketing of the character in television series such as Superman: The Adventures of Lois and Clark, Smallville and Superman: The animated series, in which Carlin - who bore the nickname "The great Carlini " because of its far-reaching control of the character in the 1990s - was always involved in a major.

  • Comic author
  • Americans
  • Born in 1958
  • Man
Spin-off (media) Steel (John Henry Irons)
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