THE GEORGE PEREZ INTERVIEWS: A birthday salute — with DC reprinting Crisis as Facsimile Editions… — UPDATED 6/9/24: The late, great George Perez was born 70 years ago, on June 9, 1954. Perfect time to re-present this piece since DC is right now reprinting Crisis as monthly Facsimile Editions. This first ran in June 2019 as part of THE GEORGE PEREZ INTERVIEWS. — Dan — Welcome to THE GEORGE PEREZ INTERVIEWS, a weekly series where the comics master discusses his greatest series. Over 13 weeks, Perez, who’s retiring from the world of comics, gives you his take on each installment of our recent TOP 13 GEORGE PEREZ COUNTDOWN, which was written by 13th Dimension contributor Anthony Durso. (Click here for much more on that.) The segments are culled from a panel Perez and I did at East Coast Comicon. Last time was #3 — The New Teen Titans. (Click here.) This week, it’s Crisis on Infinite Earths, which Perez launched with writer Marv Wolfman in 1985: Dan Greenfield: Number 2 on the list was Crisis on Infinite Earths: George Perez: Ah, yes. I call it my fanboy wet dream. (Laughter.) Again, from what I’ve been told, I was not the original artist signed to the book. But the reason I wasn’t asked was because I had worked on The New Teen Titans and everything else, they didn’t know if I’d be interested. When I heard about it and came in, when they were still doing story conferences about it, I had my fingerprints all over it before I even touched a page: “Are you crazy?! Unless you have somebody you really want, I would love to do a book like this. Draw everybody? Now you do mean everybody right? We don’t have to leave anybody out?” (Laughter.) They did leave somebody out — Hal Jordan wasn’t in that book, I always regretted that. Because John Stewart was the predominant Green Lantern at the time. But I said, “No, I will gladly do it,” and they said, “Do you really want to?” I said, “Yes!” It was, again, like the Who’s Who covers — how many times can I draw the Legion and Anthro? I can go from future to past. I can draw characters (from the) obscure to the most well-known. I can do the Golden Age Superman in...