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[[File:shooter.jpg|frame|NOT [[Heroes (TV series)|Sylar]] or [[Psycho|Norman Bates]]. (But nearly as scary.)]]
Jim Shooter (1951-) is a notorious American comic book personality, known both for his work as a writer and editor, and for the controversies surrounding him.
Shooter began his career at the age of 13 (!) after a script for ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
He eventually went to work for [[Marvel Comics]], writing among other things [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]. One of his most notable stories there was "The Korvac Saga" in which a supervillain gains cosmic powers but decides to use them for the good of the universe; however, an attack by The Avengers (who were not aware of his motives) ruined his plans, leading him to commit suicide, a unusual [[Downer Ending]] for such stories at the time.
Shooter eventually rose to the position of Editor-In-Chief at Marvel. Some of his notable works in that position include:
* Turn Marvel's very disorganized and frequently late talent into a tight ship. This helped the company, but made him a lot of enemies.
* [[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;
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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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* [[Comic Book Time]]
* [[Dark Age]]
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* [[Future Slang]]
* [[Gay Panic]]
* [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card]]
* [[Horde of Alien Locusts]]
* [[JLA-Avengers]]
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* [[Running the Asylum]]
* Take That - [[Take That/Comic Books|Comic Books]]
* [[Legion of Super-Heroes (
* [[The New Universe]]
* [[Valiant Comics]]
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