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'''Jim Shooter''' (born [[September 27]], [[1951]]) is a comic book writer and editor | '''Jim Shooter''' (born [[September 27]], [[1951]]) is a comic book writer and editor, most famous for serving as [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]] editor-in-chief during the mid-1980s. | ||
He wrote the initial story treatment for ''The Transformers'' for Hasbro, a six page document, and then handed it over to [[Dennis O'Neil]] to do character treatments for it. For reasons unknown, he didn't approve of most of O'Neil's work and went looking for another writer-editor to do it; [[Bob Budiansky]] was given the job instead, after Shooter's first few choices turned it down. <ref>[http://traffic.libsyn.com/moonbase2/BobBinterview.mp3 Bob Budiansky interview at Moonbase 2]</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 23:05, 16 January 2011
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Jim Shooter (born September 27, 1951) is a comic book writer and editor, most famous for serving as Marvel's editor-in-chief during the mid-1980s.
He wrote the initial story treatment for The Transformers for Hasbro, a six page document, and then handed it over to Dennis O'Neil to do character treatments for it. For reasons unknown, he didn't approve of most of O'Neil's work and went looking for another writer-editor to do it; Bob Budiansky was given the job instead, after Shooter's first few choices turned it down. [1]
