Editing Doomsday (DC Comics) (section)

==Publication history==
[[File:Doomsday (concept design).jpg|thumb|right|Concept art for Doomsday by [[Dan Jurgens]].]]
Doomsday was conceived in 1991 during an annual brainstorming session with the editors and writers of Superman comics, in response to a concern by some writers that most of Superman's foes at this point either relied on technology or their intellect to outmaneuver Superman or had some natural advantage against him, wanting to create a new foe with great physical power to match him. Several writers proposed having Superman die at the hands of a "bestial foe", and editor [[Mike Carlin]] scribbled this idea on the wall chart as "doomsday for Superman". Inspired, they chose "Doomsday" as the name for this villain.<ref>{{harvp|Tye|2012|p=243}}: "Next [Mike Carlin] scribbled on his storyboard "doomsday for Superman". Others chimed in, trying to imagine a villain omnipotent enough to do in Superman and how a world without him would look. By the time they left the room, they had a rough outline for a series of stories. Superman would duke it out with an all-new evil predator who was tearing apart Metropolis. What to call him or it? The answer was there on Carlin's chart: Doomsday".</ref>

Doomsday had a cameo appearance in ''[[Superman: The Man of Steel]]'' #17 (November 1992) and made his first full appearance in ''[[Superman: The Man of Steel]]'' #18 (December 1992).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Cowsill |first1=Alan |last2=Irvine |first2=Alex |last3=Manning |first3=Matthew K. |last4=McAvennie |first4=Michael |last5=Wallace |first5=Daniel |title=DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle |date=2019 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1-4654-8578-6 |page=239}}</ref>