Jokergas: How did you get started in the comic book industry?

Marv Wolfman:
I produced fanzines and sent them to the editors. They liked what they saw and asked me to try out.

Munkeypunk: What is your "secret" way to bring back Barry Allen?

Marv Wolfman:
It's on my website, marvwolfman.com under Q&A. You can find it here. ( reprinted by permission)

So many people actually saw that comment I made in my forward and have asked me how I'd bring back the Flash, that I've finally gotten tired of explaining it.

So that I don't ever have to explain it again, here it is now, once and for all. Please remember, this is a very comic booky answer and you can probably blow holes in it somehow (but then nobody really complained how an anti-matter villain could co-exist with a positive matter good guy, so maybe physics isn't anyone's strong suit). This is what I proposed to DC back in 1985.

Please note that I didn't think it was a good idea to kill The Flash but those were my marching orders, so I did the best I could to make his death as moving as I could. Here is the given I worked from: Much of the reason the people in charge didn't care for Barry Allen was that he was considered dull.

I felt if I could come up with a way of making him vital again while keeping him alive, then perhaps Barry would be given a second lease on life. I came up with the idea of Flash moving back through time, flashing into our dimension even as he was dying.

So, thought I, what if Barry was plucked out of the time stream at one of those moments he appeared? What if that meant from this point on Barry knew that he was literally living on borrowed time, that at any moment the time stream could close in on him and take him to his inevitable death.

What would this mean to Barry?

1: from now on the fastest man alive would literally be running for his life.

2: He knew he didn't have much time left and believed (as Barry would) that he had to devote it to helping others.

3: This meant Barry would become driven and desperate to help others with each passing tick of the clock. I felt this new revitalized attitude might be enough to make the formerly dull police scientist into someone who now had to push himself as he never had to before. I was hoping that this would make the character interesting enough to live. Earlier, I said my explanation was comic booky.

In many ways it is because none of us knows when we are going to die.
But this knowledge would haunt a man like Barry Allen and change him from an unassuming character into a driven hero. At least that was the plan!

Nachtwing: What consequences of Crisis on Infinite Earths that have been undone do you wish were still in-continuity or around today?

Marv Wolfman:
I changed the DCU. I can't object if someone else wants to do the same.

Nachtwing: Which Teen Titan character was the easiest for you to write?

Marv Wolfman:
Nightwing.

Alexziq: Marv, you've managed to stay cutting edge for more 30+ years, how do you do it?

Marv Wolfman:
Every week I sharpen my head against a grindstone.

Alexziq: Did you ever have interest in working on one of the Vertigo titles since its inception, if so which one, or ones?

Marv Wolfman:
They are creator owned and only the creators should do them.

Csafounder: As you look at the characters that you were so intrical in developing, what is your take on the core Titans that you launched to stardom and their progression through different writer's and where would you like to see them go in the future?

Marv Wolfman:
I don't read other writersâ interpretations so I have no idea.

Louboot: What was it like working with Gene Colan on Tomb of Dracula?

Marv Wolfman:
He was great.

Louboot: Due to the darker nature of the book, did you receive much editorial interference when working on Tomb of Dracula?

Marv Wolfman:
No. Only comics code interference.

Mazingman728: Which character was your favorite creation?

Marv Wolfman:
Too many and I like most of them.

Mazingman728: What storyline are you most fond of?

Marv Wolfman:
See above.

Mazingman728: If offered to write your dream comic, which series would it be?

Marv Wolfman:
Superman

Bearscout: Do you miss working so much with George Perez?

Marv Wolfman:
Absolutely. He's great.

Jokergas: What can the fans ( myself included ) look forward to in the future from Marv Wolfman?

Marv Wolfman: Comics, video games, novels and animation.

Thank you for taking a break to answer some questions. Until next time people.

For more on Fred Van Lente and his work, please check out these links:
www.marvwolfman.com
Marv's Wikipedia page