Jim Shooter: Difference between revisions

 

Shooter eventually rose to the position of Editor-In-Chief at Marvel. Some of his notable works in that position include:

* [[Executive Meddling|Ordering]] the death of Jean Grey at the end of the [[Dark Phoenix Saga]] on [[X-Men]] since he felt the character's murder of billions of alien beings (even though done while insane) needed to be properly punished (while [[Chris Claremont]] wrote the story, that was not the ending he had intended for it.) Although highly controversial at the time, this was later generally accepted as an appropriate ending and a classic storyline.

* Starting the whole [[Crisis Crossover]] fad with the [[Secret Wars]] series (in which The Beyonder, an [[The Omnipotent|omnipotent]] being, tried [[To Become Human]]) which he wrote himself;

Shooter went on to head his own comics company, [[Valiant Comics]], by modernizing several old existing characters, during the 1990s; it was successful for a time, but eventually closed down. Shooter tried a few more times, but without success.

 

 

 

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