Jim Shooter

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Jim Shooter (September 27, 1951–June 30, 2025) was an American comic book writer and editor. Shooter is perhaps best known for serving as Marvel's editor-in-chief during the mid-1980s.

Shooter worked on a number of story treatments for toy companies and had an acrimonous relationship with sister company Marvel 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 until Margaret Loesch took over. One property he worked on including a proposed transforming-robot toyline borrowed from Japan... called Mysterians, which never got made after Knickerbocker Toys was bought out by Hasbro. Hasbro came to Marvel to work on a treatment for their transforming robots and Shooter wrote the initial six-page treatment for The Transformers. He then handed it over to Denny O'Neil to do character treatments for it but considered O'Neil's work to be "cranked out, pithless stuff"<ref>Jim Shooter: Secret Origin of the Transformers Part 1</ref> and went looking for another writer-editor to do it. Bob Budiansky was given the job after Shooter's first few choices turned it down. <ref>Bob Budiansky interview at Moonbase 2</ref>

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Donny Finkleberg was given the brush off by an extremely tall editor at the famous comic book publishing company. The editor reminded Finkleberg that his Robot-Master comic book series had been canceled, and that he was uninterested in his idea for a Potato-Salad Man graphic novel titled This Man, This Mayonnaise. I, Robot-Master!

Notes

Shooter sold his first professional comic story at DC Comics, an issue of Legion of Super-Heroes, when he was 14 years old.
- After being the ongoing writer for 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's Secret Wars.
Basically, if you're reading Marvel or DC today, you owe the man.
(nobody mention Warriors of Plasm.)

References

External links

Official website
Jim Shooter's original treatment for The Transformers
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Editorial staff of Marvel Comics' The Transformers
Marvel U.S. editors	Bob Budiansky (1-4, Movie) Jim Owsley (5-9) Michael Carlin (10-21) Don Daley (22-69, Joe, HM) Jim Salicrup (TFU) Bob Harras (Joe) Rob Tokar (70-80)
Marvel U.S. editors-in-chief	Jim Shooter (1-32, Movie, TFU, Joe, HM 1-2) Tom DeFalco (33-80, HM 3-4)
Marvel UK editors	Sheila Cranna (1-21) Ian Rimmer (22-120) "Chris Francis" (121-207) Richard Starkings ("Ancient Relics!") Euan Peters (208-c.289) "The Nurse" (c.290-332) Staz (transitional assistance, c.290-c.298)

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