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Jim Shooter (b. September 27, 1951) is a writer. Jim Shooter started submitting scripts to DC when he was 13. The following year, with a great deal of study of DC and Marvel's respective narrative styles, he was writing and penciling rough layouts for the Legion of Super-Heroes. Four years later, he retired from comics at 18. Thanks to some gentle prodding from Legion fans Mike Flynn and Harry ...
Apr 7, 2020 · Firstly, Jim Shooter was a child prodigy. Even at the tender age of 5, he displayed an intelligence and precociousness well beyond his age. Second, Jim Shooter was curious and an insatiable learner. The middle school years are where most kids are picking their noses, yet Shooter was studying the medium of comics, willing to put in the work to ...
Apr 21, 2011 · Features. Jim Shooter: Groundhog Day in the Land of the Apocryphiars. Gary Groth | April 21, 2011 . Running alongside his storied career as a comics writer, editor, and publisher, Jim Shooter began a second, parallel career sometime in the 1990s: that of recounting his first career in vainglorious prose and delusional detail.
Oct 10, 2000 · Straight from Shooter's mouth. MICHAEL DAVID THOMAS: You started writing the Legion of Super-Heroes at the age of 13. How did that come about? JIM SHOOTER: My family needed money. And at the age of 13, you can't get a job in a steel mill. So you can't get any kind of real job, maybe running newspapers.
As an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman, Jim Shooter (b. 1951) remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium. Starting in 1966 at the age of fourteen, Shooter, as the young protégé of verbally abusive DC editor Mort Weisinger, helped introduce themes and character development more commonly associated with DC competitor Marvel Comics.
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