Jim Shooter
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Jim Shooter (born September 27, 1951) is a comic book writer and editor. Shooter is perhaps best known 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]
Notes
- Shooter sold his first professional comic story, an issue of Legion of Super-Heroes, when he was 14 years old.
- 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 Comics today, you owe the man.
- (nobody mention Warriors of Plasm.)
