Quote: Uh... Superman #75 happened in November 1992. The TV Show didn't even debut until 1993... most likely September 1993. At that time, Superman was dead. Yet that didn't affect the TV Show, now did it?
Woulda been a shitty thing if the TV Show had debuted with a dead superman, and four guys running around pretending to be him.
The show hadn't debuted when Superman #75 came out but it was being planned. If you look at the issues in the months before the Death, you'll see that everything was pointing towards the marriage, which was gonna happen in the next landmark issue (Superman #75 was the closest). Then the higher ups ordered that the marriage was postponed because a show about Lois and Clark relationship was being planned. Carlin (the Superman editor at the time) had to come up with a new "big" event to happen in #75 (they were expecting a lot of media attention for the Wedding) so the Death of Superman saga was born. I've read about this several times, once in a interview with Carlin. If you read that saga (Death, Return, Reign) you get the feeling that you don't know what's gonna happen next which makes it pretty cool, and that's because the writers themselves didn't know very well what was gonna happen next (like Karl Kesel admitted once).
