Checking with the Wayback Machine shows that no amend was made to TMZ's original story to remove any mention of death threats. Writer Peony Hirwani only cites TMZ rather than any other report, it's not clear where the line about police responding to death threats came from, and Hirwani did not respond to inquiries made yesterday. Indeed, the writer of the comic book in question lives in Australia and the artist in Costa Rica, which may be a little outside the LAPD's jurisdiction.īut not for The Independent, the UK newspaper site, who took TMZ's story and made it even more sensational and even less rooted in truth, with a headline that read 'DC Comics illustrators call police after 'receiving death threats' over Superman's bisexuality' and ''The extra protection comes after major backlash that included some so-called fans making threats,' an LAPD source said'. And that there was no sign of LA police being called keep an eye out over creators or staffers. Bleeding Cool checked with our own sources and found that, if true, none of the DC Comics people involved with the production of the comic seemed aware it.

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