Jim Shooter
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Jim Shooter(bornSeptember 27,1951) is a comic book writer and editor. Shooter is perhaps best known for serving asMarvel's editor-in-chief during the mid-1980s.
He worked on a number of story treatments for toy companies and had an acrimonous relationship with sister companyMarvel Productions,claiming they thought little of the comics company (to the extent of ignoring Marvel Comics treatments for toy properties) and that the relationship didn't improve untilMargaret Loeschtook over. One property he worked on including a proposed transforming-robot toyline borrowed from Japan... calledMysterians,which never got made after Knickerbocker Toys was bought out by Hasbro. Hasbro came to Marvel to work on a treatment fortheirtransforming robots and Shooter wrote the initial six-page treatment forThe Transformers.He then handed it over toDenny O'Neilto do character treatments for it but considered O'Neil's work to be "cranked out, pithless stuff"[1]and went looking for another writer-editor to do it.Bob Budianskywas given the job after Shooter's first few choices turned it down.[2]
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- Shooter sold his first professional comic story, an issue ofLegion of Super-Heroes,when he was 14 years old.
- After being theongoing writerfor some time, he then briefly retired from comics because he graduated high school.
- Shooter also helped develop the concept of the company-wide crossover, beginning with Marvel'sSecret Wars.
- Basically, if you're reading Marvel orDC Comicstoday, you owe the man.
- (nobody mentionWarriors of Plasm.)
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