How did the ecologically themed SUPERMAN: FOR EARTH come about?
RS: As I recall, Jenette Kahn was interested in seeing a Superman eco-story, perhaps as a tie-in to Earth Day. I saw it as an opportunity to write a stand-alone Superman story that would maybe make people stop and think about our world. I’m still very proud of it. Of course, it was allowed to go out of print long ago, and most people aren’t even aware that it exists. Q: You wrote a lot of Superman-related reference material. How did you land the assignments to write both the SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL sourcebook for Mayfair Games and the majority of the Superman cast entries in the 1990 loose leaf binder WHO’S WHO series? RS: I think that I’d started writing the WHO’S WHO Superman entries first. And it’s funny… I hadn’t intended to write so many of them. In fact, I’d initially just asked to write the Starman-related entries… which of course someone else wound up writing. Anyway, I kept getting assignments to write Superman entries, and when the Mayfair assignment came along, Mike C
