Mike Carlin

Michael "Mike" 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.

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

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 in 1986, where he became Superman group editor. From 1996-2002, he served as an executive editor at DC Comics.

• 1994 Eisner Award for Best Editor, for the Superman titles

Nominations

• 1992 Eisner Award for Best Editor, for Superman titles and The Psycho

• "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. 
• "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. 

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, 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.