RIP Jim Shooter

[MRP]

Jim Shooter lost his battle with cancer today. Multiple outlets are reporting on his death today.

Whether you like what he did on comics or not, he created a legacy that will endure. Avengers Set to arrive this week! is still one of my all-time favorite super-hero comics and Shooter's run on the Avengers in the 1970s is a majot reason I am a fan of super-hero comics and stories.

Rest well sir.

Cancer sucks!

-M

[powersthatbe]

RIP. He was from my town and to me he was a staple of 80s Marvel and second to Stan. I met him in 1995 at a local con.

[Dan2Dan]

Wow. In the mid-1980s as a teenager, I accepted the 'fan press' characterization of him as a corporate villain (in his last couple of years at Marvel, in particular), flush from the success of Secret Wars, having alienated John Byrne notably. But the more I read about him, and his time at Marvel, and even more so his experience at Valiant, I came to have a much more sympathetic view of him.

[TRDouble]

Jim Shooter was the reason this DC Kid started reading Marvel, during his EIC tenure, and at the time I didn't know, some of his writing too. And as a huge fan of The Legion of Super-Heroes, I was reading a lot more of his work than I realized. His tenure as EIC at Marvel is still my favorite Marvel time period. And in later years when his did his blog, for me it was must read stuff.

A true Giant in the industry.