2007 Comic Book News Archives

Superman/Doomsday

April 13, 2007: Mike Carlin Remembers “The Death of Superman”

15 years after the event, Newsarama catches up with Mike Carlin to lay to rest any confusion regarding Superman's death in the comics...

    Carlin, who is in charge of Batman these days, offered some explanation about the death of Superman that put everything in perspective.

    "He was dead," he said simply. "The editors, writers, all of us believed he was dead. There was a lot of pseudo-science and doubletalk at work here, but Superman did indeed die."

    I knew it all along! Those people who said he was merely in a "death-like" state were dead wrong. Excuse the pun.

    "Yep, he died," continued Carlin. "We saw him heading toward the light and then we did not see him for a while. While on that trip to the light, through a combination of his own beliefs and his earthly parents beliefs about what happens to the soul, he sees Jonathan Kent's soul. Pa Kent had a heart attack and was having an out-of-body experience. His soul steered Clark's soul back to Earth.

    Carlin said when you consider that actual human beings do die and return to life on the operating table, the precedent is there.

    "Granted, humans die and return to life in a few minutes and it took Superman seven or eight issues, but the premise is the same," he said. Once his soul was back where it belonged, Superman was barely alive, in that "death-like state" we hear about.

Carlin also confirms he's part of the 70 minutes of bonus material on the making of the 75 minute animated feature "Superman: Doomsday" which is scheduled for release on DVD in September.

Read the complete interview with Mike Carlin at Newsarama.com.



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