Back to back tributes to comic book legends, and this one even bigger than yesterday's both in contributions to the art form and in physical size.
Back then, we didn't have the Internet. So there was no easy way to learn things. I did not know much about Jim Shooter when I met with him. I knew he was Editor-in-Chief at Marvel and had done some great things since taking the role in 1978.
What I did not know, but had explained to me once I got to Marvel, was that Shooter was very famous for getting hired to write DC's Legion of Superheroes at the age of THIRTEEN!!
I was only three years old when he started writing at DC, and I did not become a huge Legion of Superheroes fan for quiet a while yet.
Dad and I went to see two movies in our weekend in New York: Buckaroo Banzai and Stop Making Sense.
#171: Big Jim
The big news story this week was the passing of former Marvel editor in chief Jim Shooter, who was lost to esophageal cancer. This wasn’t an entirely unexpected development for those of us in the know, as Jim had been battling the disease for some time, and had previously had a couple of close calls. One only needed to look at any of the recent photographs of him taken in his many convention appearances to see just how poorly he was looking as compared to only a year earlier. Even so, Jim’s sudden demise sent shock waves through the industry.
Pretty much everybody who eulogizes Jim uses some version of the term “complicated” or “complex” to describe him. This is a polite way of saying that Jim was instrumental in achieving a lot of good things for the comic book industry, but also had a number of serious flaws that led to his downfall time and time again. Nobody wants to recount any of Jim’s failings as we speak of his death, but neither do those who were in his orbit want to paint a picture of the man as a sainted figure. Hence, “complicated.”
What I can tell you for certain is this; Jim Shooter was a phenomenally talented man and a child wunderkind who broke into the industry at 13 years old by submitting stories to DC’s SUPERMAN editor Mort Weisinger, one of the most tyrannical editors in the history of comics. Mort didn’t realize Jim’s age until after he’d bought a number of his stories, and he was a bit chagrinned at the realization. Jim’s age, however, didn’t prevent Mort from belittling and mistreating him, as he did al of his creators, and I suspect this had a real impact on Shooter’s psyche. But in addition to dressing him down, Weisinger also educated Shooter, instructing him in how comics worked as a medium and as a business, and giving him the tools that he’d use for the rest of his career. Shooter would, in my opinion, become a bit too dogmatic and inflexible in his thinking as time went on, but it must be said that he nurtured and instructed a huge amount of talent throughout his time in the industry. He genuinely wanted to pass on the lessons that he had learned to the next generation and beyond.
I only had one or two short interactions with Jim myself, having come into Marvel about two years after he had been shown the door. So my firsthand experience here is limited. But his ghost permeated all throughout the Editorial department at that time, and those who had lived through his tenure universally shared stories about how difficult, demanding and mercurial he could be as a boss. I’d never seen the color drain from a person’s face in the manner of a Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon until Bobbie Chase was told that Jim was coming back to write a project for me around 2001. It was as though somebody had stepped on her grave.
That project wound up not happening, despite my best efforts, for reasons that Jim had honed into a “tight five” over the years as part of his convention reminiscences. I unsurprisingly don’t really agree with Jim’s version of events, and he would no doubt not agree with mine, so the truth lies someplace in-between. But this is not the time to tell that story. To my mind, Paul Levitz put it best in his eulogy to Shooter when he said, “His sense of history was not, in my view, as good as his sense of fiction.” Which is a fancy way of saying that Jim never told any story in which he wasn’t the absolute hero.
Years later, I almost had him convinced to do a one-page story for MARVEL COMICS #1000, the big anniversary book. He was intending to write a Doctor Doom page, and he wanted his fried Jim Starlin to illustrate it. That would have been fun, but it turned out that he didn’t like the money that was being offered and so ultimately declined the assignment. By the time I found out about that, the deed had been done. Had I heard about it earlier, I would have offered to pay Jim pretty much whatever he wanted out of my own pocket to get that one-pager to happen. But it never did.
Jim made the Legion of Super Heroes into a fan favorite series, he brought a bit of a Stan Lee sensibility to staid DC in the 1960s. He created a bevy of memorable characters, heroes and villains alike, he advocated for better page rates and sales incentives for the creators who worked for him, he created the line-wide company crossover, he experimented with new formats and new markets, he provided opportunities for any number of young up-and-comers who went on to become superstars, he created the editorial structure that Marvel still uses today, making order out of chaos. He started from scratch and reinvented himself with new start-up companies not once, not twice, but three times. he clearly loved this medium and this industry, even though, like so many, he was a bit chewed up by the machinery of it. And he wrote an awful lot of memorable comic book stories that can still be read today. As a legacy goes, that isn’t that bad at all.
https://www.comicsbeat.com/jim-shooter-73-has-reportedly-died-of-esphogeal-cancer/
Jim Shooter, 73, has reportedly died of esophageal cancer
Jim Shooter was the former Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics.
The news of Shooter’s passing was announced via on comic book writer Mark Waid on Facebook, who posted:
RIP Jim Shooter, 1951-2025.
I’ve just received word that Jim Shooter passed away of esophogeal cancer, which he’s been battling for some time. I realize that for many he’s been a controversial figure in the past (game knows game), mostly with regards to his managereal style, but my experiences with him lay outside that realm and began with my lifelong love for his writing beginning with the first time I ever picked up a copy of Adventure Comics in 1967.
For those who don’t know, Jim broke into comics at the age of 14. Let me say that again: 14. I don’t know about you, but when I was 14, I could barely put sentences together on paper. During a hospital stay, he’d been given some Marvel and DC comics and could clearly see how much more exciting the Marvel books were and couldn’t understand why DC’s books couldn’t have that same vitality. Having no idea how comics scripts were done, he literally wrote and drew a Legion of Super-Heroes story on notebook paper and sent it in to editor Mort Weisinger, who put him to work immediately–having no idea how young he was until later.
The mid-1970s to a DC that didn’t quite know what to do with him before moving to Marvel and eventually serving as their EIC for many years. Subsequently, he launched a succession of long- and short-lived comics companies. Over the past few years, he’d been making frequent comic convention appearances.
My meals and conversations with Jim were always genial, and I never failed to remind him just how inspirational his work was to me; there are storytelling choices and stylistic influences I got from him in nearly all my work. I regret that I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye, but I’m glad he’s finally at peace after years of suffering.
Jim Shooter was a highly influential American comic‑book writer, editor, and publisher, who sold his first professional stories at age 14, writing for DC Comics stories that included Adventure Comics, Supergirl, Superman, Superboy, and the Legion of Super‑Heroes. He is known for crafting key Legion stories that introcuded characters like Karate Kid, Princess Projectra, Ferro Lad, and the Fatal Five.
After working at DC in his teens, in 1976, Shotter signed on as assistant editor at Marvel, then quickly rising through the ranks to become Marvel’s ninth editor‑in‑chief in early 1978, succeeding Archie Goodwin. Under his leadership, Marvel streamlined production, ended chronic delays, launched creator royalties, and pioneered the first company‑wide crossover events, including Secret Wars. He also oversaw legendary runs like Chris Claremont and John Byrne‘s Uncanny X‑Men and Frank Miller‘s Daredevil.
In Tom Field‘s book Secrets in the Shadows: The Art & Life of Gene Colan, Roy Thomas spoke about the former Marvel EiC’s complicated legacy, saying, “When Jim Shooter took over, for better or worse he decided to rein things in – he wanted stories told the way he wanted them told. It’s not a matter of whether Jim Shooter was right or wrong; it’s a matter of a different approach. He was editor-in-chief and had a right to impose what he wanted to.”
In 1989, Shooter co‑founded Voyager Communications, which published comics under the Valiant Comics brand, bringing former Marvel talent on board and reimagining properties like Solar: Man of the Atom, Magnus, Robot Fighter, and other stories based on Nintendo and WWF licensed characters, including F-ZERO.
He also later launched Defiant and Broadway Comics.
Since the 2000s, Shooter has served as creative director at Illustrated Media, dabbling in custom comics, children’s books, animation treatments, and even screenplay writing. However, in 2024, it was announced via his Instagram page that he would be stepping down due to “health concerns.”
https://www.comicsbeat.com/remembering-jim-shooter/
Remembering Jim Shooter
There are so many Jim Shooter stories. Here are some of them.
As I was breaking into writing about comics into the 80s, Shooter was often more of the villain of the story, at least as the fanzines of the time had it, first for killing off Jean Grey by editorial decree, a story recounted by Shooter himself here. Later there was the controversy over Jack Kirby’s artwork. It was all enough to make him the bad guy in my book. In 1986, I believe, I made a trip to the Marvel offices to visit my friend Peter Sanderson. As I rode up in the elevator I thought to myself, “I hope I don’t run into Jim Shooter.” Of course, when the elevator opened up, there was Shooter himself, getting on as I got off. I must have mumbled hello and felt terrified.
Despite what I must now classify as youthful over-dramatization, Shooter was liked and respected by many as the below memorials will attest. He came back with Valiant Comics, one of the first and most successful character line reboots of the 90s. After that he came back with Defiant Comics, a company whose name was probably a little too on the nose. In the 2000s, Shooter was a constant presence at comic cons, most often found in the hotel bar hanging out and telling stories with all who would listen. He was a guest at last weekend’s Heroes Con. He truly loved comics and comics people until his dying breath.
I never got to know Jim Shooter, but here are some memories of those who did, and some photos that were being shared, starting with this of a very young Jim Shooter. He didn’t change much.
Paul Levitz: This is a hard one to write, and he’d have done it better if allowed by fate to write his own obit. Jim Shooter has apparently passed after a battle with cancer. Jim was a complex man, and our relationship just one of the minor complexities.
As an adolescent, he decided to learn to write comics and draw them, and tactically studied what he thought were the best written comics of the mid-1960s (Marvels, as written mostly by Stan), and targeted his pitch to what he thought was one of the most old-fashioned/weakest comics (DC’s Legion of Super-heroes). Ridiculously, impossibly, the first story he submitted was bought by editor Mort Weisinger, not an editor particularly focused on new talent. And even more incredibly, it was one of the best written comics on the stands that month. And he was 13 when he started this project, 14 when it was published.
I was 9 when I read about that in the Legion’s letters page, and sitting on my porch in Brooklyn, for the first time thought that I might do something writing comics…after all, 14 wasn’t THAT far away. (For the record, I didn’t sell a comics story until I was 17, and that was with the geographic advantage of being a New York kid, not working from Pittsburgh. And if I eventually measured up, it wasn’t until my 20s.)
Jim’s writing progressed, and his Legion was often the best written comic in the DC line, if not mainstream comics. He stopped trying to sketch out his stories, and that sometimes improved the art and sometimes didn’t, depending on who he was teamed with. But like a number of the best writers of my generation, his art skills made him a far better comics writer.
We played poker for years, rose to very different but significant positions in comics. We competed sometimes (didn’t think he could get Marvel’s management to follow our lead and start royalties since it would be much more expensive for them, but he did–and while I regretted DC not getting the advantage for a while, I was glad for our field that he did). We watched each other, learned from each other (I learned a lot that led me never to take an editor-in-chief role from the damage it did to Jim and his approach did to Marvel), occasionally conspired (the rescue of Jack Abel in a time of need), each championed the comic shop market within our companies in very different ways, and our paths crossed and paralelled in strange ways (we each had three distinct runs on Legion). I like to think our respect for each other continued throughout. And many of my best works as a writer were firmly based on characters he created or defined.
Jim was an excellent super hero writer, a character creator, an editor with an eagle eye, and a man who gave his all to what he did. From my perspective, he was far weaker as an enterprise leader, and unfortunately that was what he most wanted to be. His sense of history was not, in my view, as good as his sense of fiction. But what he did well, he did gloriously…and my inner child will always be grateful for his inspiration.
I’m glad we had lunch about a year ago, and shared a stage talking about the direct market at NY Comic Con not long past. And I hope he’s sitting down at a poker table on a cloud with so many of our card-comrades past, dealing out the deck to Denny, Marty, Roger, Jack, Len and the rest.
My condolences to Ben, and to everyone else who loved Jim or counted themselves a friend or collaborator with him. ANd thanks, Jim, for the stories.
I first met Jim up at Marvel when I started working there in 1975! I think he was an assistant editor at the time. He moved up the chain of command quickly. He was always a controversial figure; some great ideas (instituting royalties!) and others not quite so much (resulting in a mass exodus to DC…).
I always try to get along with those I’m working with which I did on several interesting projects. When trouble inevitably arose, I just tried to keep my head down until the dust cleared. That’s tricky when gravitating towards the tall guys in the room…
The last time I saw him a year ago, he bought me dinner! Thank you, Jim
Nick Barrucci: Jim Shooter passed away. You may have liked him as a person, you may not have. He had a very strong personality. I had good interactions with him. I liked him.
Regardless of how you feel, Jim was a champion of the industry, and we wouldn’t be where we are at today without Jim. He was a great man. He had vision. He strengthened the industry.
God speed Jim. You told some great stories, and your legacy is one that very few could ever hope for. Thank you for having blessed our industry.
Kurt Busiek: RIP Jim Shooter. A complicated legacy, but one filled with a tall, tall stack of good stories.
I only had one significant encounter with Jim Shooter, aside from seeing him in the office a lot. While the X-FACTOR launch crossover was in the works, he called me into his office (I was working as the assistant editor on MARVEL AGE at the time) and told me he’d heard they were using the idea I’d come up with as a fan to resurrect Jean Grey. He said he didn’t believe in comics pros not getting paid for their work, so he arranged for me to be credited in the issue of FANTASTIC FOUR that included my explanation (or a version thereof), and paid me for two issues of plot at John Byrne’s page rate. This was very, very welcome, since being assistant editor on MARVEL AGE did not pay well enough to live on in the NYC area.
I’m also told he had me (and Ernie Chan) fired from POWER MAN & IRON FIST, since the sales were flat, but I never had that confirmed, so I don’t know if that was the truth or something Denny used to avoid a conflict; Denny was known to blame things on Jim that Jim never had a part in. So who knows?
Other than that, I went by the Marvel offices when I was still in college, just to look at it, and when I was about to head in to the lobby through the revolving doors, he came out and almost bowled me over. And later, one time I was helping a friend of a friend move, we got to the apartment and he almost bowled me over again, coming down the stairs with an entire bureau on his back.
Oh, and after ASTRO CITY went on hiatus after the first 6 issues at Image, he was one of the publishers who offered to pick it up, though we wound up going with Wildstorm.
He was always a pleasant to interact with on a personal level, but I never worked for him directly, and I know that could be a very different experience.
I loved a lot of his writing, including his run on DAREDEVIL, first run on AVENGERS and of course the immortal WHAT IF 3.
He made a major impact on the comics industry, directly or indirectly shaping both Marvel and DC in the 1980s, and the echoes of his presence will be felt for a long, long time.
Well, shit–we just lost another one. Jim Shooter just passed away. He was 73.
Jim was the editor-in-chief at Marvel when I was an aspiring artist. I sent him samples, which he politely rejected again and again. Eventually, I got in somewhere and started figuring stuff out. Jim gave me my first Marvel gig–a fill-in on the Mighty Thor. The two of us hammered out a plot in the hotel bar during a Chicago Comic Con. He had his favorite writer script the story and his favorite inker ink the story and that’s how I ended up subbing for Jack Kirby in that classic creative team. It would be the last issue Stan Lee and Vinnie Colletta ever worked on.
Jim was much loved and much loathed. He had very specific ideas of how things should be done and drove creators away from the company at times. He had his list of rules and woe be it to anybody who crossed him. But his reign didn’t last forever and eventually Marvel kicked him to the curb.
Jim licked his wounds and went on to form rival Valiant Comics, until, again, he was shown the door.
After that it was the short-lived Defiant Comics.
I’m sure many people will go on and talk about his many virtues and talents. I just worked with him the one time so I don’t have many stories to tell. I just have the one book where I subbed for Jack in that classic Thor creative team and had my name misspelled.
Walt Simonson: As everybody knows by now, Jim Shooter, former editor-in-chief of Marvel back from the late 70s into the middle 80s, has caught the last train out. He was a lot more than the EIC there, of course, but his bio is all over the web already. He was complex, as has also been said already, and there are a million stories. I’ll leave it for historians to sum up, but Weezie and I always found a core within Jim that we liked. So I’ll add two short comments as footnotes to his history. The first is this:
In June, 1980, Weezie and I were about to get married. I headed down to Maryland a day ahead of the wedding where my folks lived to take care of last minute arrangements for the ceremony. Weezie stayed behind in the Marvel offices working on the adaptation of the movie, Xanadu, that HAD to get to the printer ASAP! I made her promise to catch the train, and then pulled Jim aside and told him to be sure she got out of the offices in time to get to Maryland. He agreed. When the time came, the book hadn’t gone to the printer yet, Weezie was still working furiously on it, and Jim went into her office to tell her to hit the road. Weezie, without breaking stride, barked at him to get out of her office because she still had work to do and she wasn’t leaving till it was done! Jim was 6’7” or whatever but he wisely beat a hasty retreat. Fortunately, the book went out in time and Weezie made it to the church just as the wedding rehearsal was getting started. Literally. And Jim gave us a really nice flashlight as a wedding gift so we could find our way in the dark. We still have it. Still works.
The other footnote is mine. When old Marvel was at 387 Park Ave. S., Jim’s office was adjacent to Anne Nocenti’s. Baseboard heating ran through Jim’s office into Anne’s. Consequently, some of the conversations in Jim’s office could be heard in Anne’s. I don’t remember who told me but it was reported that once my name came up and Jim was overheard to say, “Simonson. Another big gun who can’t be aimed.” I loved it. I’ll be using that as my epitaph. LOL.
We’re saddened by your departure but glad you’re free from pain, Jim. Godspeed.
Bob Hall: Just heard that Jim Shooter passed. He’d been in a lot of pain and I suspect he may have been ready. I hope so.
He was ten years younger than me when he took the reins of Marvel and I’ll confess that I was scared of him. I was just starting and felt I knew nothing. Jim was a remarkably tall kid who seemed to know everything. As the years went by we became friends. He was good to me. I was shy about whatever talent I may have had and Jim always seemed to like me – or my work or whatever. Any way he kept me in work for a long time. I remember once when I was in the office he asked what I was getting paid. After I told him, he announced to the room: “Just look at this guy. He does great work, he’s older than dirt and we’re paying him shit!” He seldom did things half way. He was on the board if a little Off- Off Broadway theatre company we had and later, at Valiant he convinced me I could write and offered me Shadowman, and that changed my life. Lately we hung around any number of comic cons, sometimes arguing over which of us was right about how Yellow Jacket slapping the Wasp was supposed to have gone but mainly telling each other stories, most of them true and closing bars in towns small and large all over the country. I will leave it to others to talk about the influence he had on the world of comics. I just want to say that he was my friend and I’ll miss him.
Kelley Jones: Jim Shooter has passed away.
When I got hired to draw comics for Marvel Comics many years ago Jim Shooter flew out to do several signings in my area and asked if I’d come and meet him, which I did with great trepidation because he was the boss of bosses and I was just starting out. When he finished a signing he asked if I’d like to go out for a meal anywhere I wanted and we could talk about making comic art professionally. I told him let’s go to McDonalds.
We talked for hours and a lot about Jack Kirby.
When it was over he asked why did I want to eat at McDonalds of all places. I told him very earnestly that I didn’t want Marvel to pay for an expensive meal as I was a nobody.
He laughed his ass off and hugged me saying I was Marvel material!!
He was always very kind to me all the years after.
God bless him.
Jim was a mixed bag that often didn’t mix well with others, but he always treated me with respect and cordiality. I believe he truly valued my friendship. He invited me to special Marvel dinners and lunches, movie previews, plotting sessions for books I was involved with or books he wanted me involved with, and to play volleyball in Central Park on Sundays.
Jim wasn’t happy when I left Marvel following Bruce Jones and April Campbell to San Diego, Pacific Comics and Somerset Holmes, but he respected my choice and lauded the work I did there and since. Jim Shooter was there for me in the very beginning when I needed a kind word, a bit of helpful advice, or a reality check when I was naive or callow.
I owe Jim a lot, and am glad for the opportunity to publicly express this in his memory.
Jim Lee: RIP Jim Shooter. A towering figure in comics-literally and creatively-who helped shape the modern Marvel Universe. As Editor-in-Chief in the late ’70s and ’80s, he raised storytelling standards, instituted fill in issues to keep the books out on time, and oversaw iconic runs like Claremont & Byrne’s X-Men, Simonson’s Thor, Miller’s Daredevil, and events like Secret Wars (my understanding was that he was, in fact, the Beyonder). A pretty damn magical time if you were a fan like me.
Later, after I broke into comics in 1987-l’ll never forget the first time I was brought into the Marvel offices. Jim gave me a 15-minute crash course in storytelling (which he apparently did for all new pros getting hired at the House of Ideas); it was as informative as it was succinct-absolutely masterful.
And long, long before that, I grew up reading that he had sold a Legion of Super-Heroes script to DC at just 13 years old.
That one fact gave me eternal (and probably overly optimistic) hope. Thank you, Jim, for that bit of kindling and of a lifetime of memories.Joe Illidge: A gentleman of comics has informed many of us that Jim Shooter has passed on, and comics is much lesser for it.
I knew Jim as his Valiant Comics, then later his Defiant Comics, operated during the same timeline as my time in Milestone, and the two groups intersected in various ways.
I reconnected with Jim in the early second decade of this century, and we had some good talks in which I always gained some kind of wisdom.
We know he changed comics and pop culture forever. We know he set a standard for story and rules that gained him respect and enemies at the same time, and with all that he was a man who in his career and life exemplified the words of the companies he worked for and built.
He was a marvel.
He was valiant.
He was defiant.
He was a meat and potatoes guy who decided that a beloved superhero had to die because you can’t kill a planet of 8 billion inhabitants and just go off into the sunset.
Sorry to see him go. Glad he’s no longer in pain.Jim Shooter's treatment for The Transformers: the eight pages that started a legend. RIP Jim Shooter (1/2)
— Simon Letch (@simonletch.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Fabian Nicieza: Having heard the news about Jim Shooter’s passing, I wish peace to a man who rarely seemed at peace.
First as a reader and then as a professional, he was instrumental in my having a writing career and I thank him for that.
I had nothing but spirited and positive interactions with Jim personally, both at Marvel and since then, but I also saw for myself and know firsthand from others who did not, so even in that I thank him for showing me multiple aspects of how office interactions work.
Though he was certainly complicated, I strongly believe Marvel, the direct market, and possibly the industry itself, might not exist today without what Jim Shooter did as EiC.
#RIPJimShooter — The Marvel comics I grew up with were shaped by his vision. The greatest EIC in comics history. Without Big Jim, the stories we love on the big screen wouldn't exist. A true legend. You’ll be missed. 🕊️ #JimShooter pic.twitter.com/rKkqQkauqj
— Charlton Hero (@Charlton_Hero) July 1, 2025
RIP Jim Shooter one of the greats responsible for me falling in love with comic books #ripjimshooter pic.twitter.com/2NEksxHZUm
— Dancy (@munchie1125) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/bnkkP7wzZm
— D. Adonis (¡Ordóñez!) (@DietrichAdonis) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/e1aRCcHZeW
— Scott R Dill (@scottrdill) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/WiUDcX8ukH
— Scott R Dill (@scottrdill) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/ebwliWDgL5
— Dave's Comic Heroes Blog (@DavesComicHero) July 1, 2025
Just heard about the passing of Jim Shooter, comic legend. My condolences to his family and friends. #RIPJIMSHOOTER pic.twitter.com/8FiIwH2KOw
— Michael Regina (@mikereginatorn) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/4hgucrkplX
— rick guzman (@rickguzman718) July 1, 2025
R.I.P to the legend#RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/ygcYbpiHbS
— Disgruntled Superman (@TurntKryptonian) July 1, 2025
Sorry to hear of the passing of Jim Shooter at the age of 73. Love him or hate him, he truly made his mark as EIC at #Marvel, promoted some great talent, and got the best work out of them, and #SecretWars is still the best Big Event ever. #RIPJimShooter. Farewell, and well done. pic.twitter.com/Hhd2SgzKIW
— Fred Schaefer (@Fcsnva) July 1, 2025
Jim Shooter had his own page in the Marvel Universe Handbook #RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/DM6GHBv7Vq
— Disgruntled Superman (@TurntKryptonian) July 1, 2025
I’m deeply saddened to learn that Jim Shooter passed away. I know that some felt he was a controversial figure, but @Marvel was under his stewardship at the time I began reading comics and I thoroughly enjoyed them! (Yes, INCLUDING the New Universe titles!)#RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/HsSLstxQED
— Geek To Me Radio (@GeekToMeRadio) July 1, 2025
I had the pleasure of meeting
— Jody Yerdon (@regalfan) July 1, 2025
Jim Shooter with my son in 2021 and realizing I only had a handful of Legion Comics, had him sign a silly WWF comic he wrote for Valiant in 1990. He happily signed it and shared a story about meeting Sgt Slaughter. Great guy #RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/F5BYudSdJj
Comic Legend Jim Shooter's Secret Wars Legacy. RIP.#JimShooter #SecretWars #MarvelComics #ComicBookLegends #DragonCon #RIPJimShooter #ComicBookIndustry #Superhero #Marvel #ComicBooks pic.twitter.com/lJBHPtSXQ4
— Super Hero Homies! (@SuperHeroHomies) July 5, 2025
#RIPJimShooter
— Ready to admit Thanos was right yet? (@OverlordOf_Evil) July 1, 2025
I met the man a couple of times at various shows & conventions.
Honored to have gotten the chance to spend any time in his presence, talking about the thing we both loved so much, comics.
And, of course, getting his autograph. pic.twitter.com/kjXAFWYCmp
Rest in Peace Jim Shooter, the greatest editor in Chief during Marvel’s greatest era in history. He has been missed in the industry for a few decades. A true legend in comic history, #RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/pgHdADtYmS
— Chris S (@cdstein69) July 1, 2025
Sad to hear about the passing of the brilliant and complicated Jim Shooter. I’m actually right in the middle of revisiting his Secret Wars series that captivated me as a youngster. #ripjimshooter #restinpeacejimshooter #comics pic.twitter.com/cZjoUxx39C
— Jim Ousley (@JimOusley) July 1, 2025
We lost one of the all-time greats today.#RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/XP6xz9QVOx
— People With Issues (@PeopleWIssues) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter#RIPStanLee pic.twitter.com/0Y1tB08ger
— Spider-Lou 🕸️↙️ (@spiderlou2099) July 1, 2025
Comics from this era have yet to be topped. #RIPJimShooter https://t.co/AB8b5E7QdM
— GeekTime TV (@GeekTimeNet) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter https://t.co/2cHTupjJ7S
— Richard Becerra (@RBECERRA21) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter ☹️🙏 A true Legend in the world of Comics and also the superhero tv, film and cartoon world wouldn’t be what it is today if not for this man’s Brilliant mind. Thank You and God Speed Jim #EXCELSIOR … pic.twitter.com/58qf3Cq7Xb
— kev beattie (@Iamzodkneel) July 1, 2025
Saddened to hear about the passing of Big Jim Shooter. Glad I got to meet the man twice. Even happier that all the stories his talent has provided will live on. #ripjimshooter #JimShooter #Marvel pic.twitter.com/OqtR80wnHI
— Joltin’ Joe K: //readatjoes.org (@thejoekucharski) July 1, 2025
👑🙏🪽 R.I.P Jim Shooter 🪽🙏👑
— Andy (@TheShinBatman84) July 1, 2025
Thank you for everything over the years working in comic books.#RIPJimShooter pic.twitter.com/UhqQvYksFl
#RIPJimShooter ….Legend! #Marvel #DC #Comics https://t.co/oJTTuzomdq
— The Robot Afro Show (@RobotAfro) July 1, 2025
G’Night, All!
— Will Pheesh (@WillPheesh) July 1, 2025
…and #RIPJimShooter https://t.co/VJdpdkoO9g
Jim Shooter was a giant of the modern comic-book industry in every way, most notably as Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief post-Stan Lee. RIP. 🙏 #RIPJimShooter #MarvelComics
— Rob Sinclair (@iamrobsinclair) July 1, 2025
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#RipJimShooter - very happy to be able to meet him in Baltimore, get a signed poster of Secret Wars 8, and tell him how much his work at Marvel and Valiant - in particular Magnus Robot Fighter - impacted the stories at Battle Quest Comics. He had a big smile when he heard that.
— Battle Quest Comics (@BQComics) July 1, 2025
I overheard someone at UKAC '89 or '90 say "Jim Shooter knows how to break eggs and make comic omelette!" 😅 #RIPJimShooter https://t.co/oQmtFNfLsr
— Science Fiction Book Club.org (@SFbookclub) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter
— Chett ⊗ (@ChettEyeKnight) July 1, 2025
If not for you, #Marvel ceases to exist right around 1974. https://t.co/JjT1in6KmT
Oh man. This is terrible news. #RIPJimShooter https://t.co/K5XDAzyNSR
— GeekTime TV (@GeekTimeNet) July 1, 2025
#RIPJimShooter Thank you for Secret Wars and for all of the glorious comics for which you were a creator and editor! Your influence was explosively significant for a generation of young comic readers. My sincere condolences to his family, friends, and fans. RIP legend. https://t.co/aZRJD4AIPM
— Will Pheesh (@WillPheesh) July 1, 2025
Shooter, like many creatives turned execs, could be polarizing. His return to the Legion in the 70s was my introductory issue to the team. So much of their foundation the mythology came from him as a teen. He molded the 80s comics scene for better or worse. #RIPJimShooter https://t.co/dbsxXeeaWH
— Sean Dulaney (@sdulaney) July 1, 2025
If all subsequent editors-in-chief were the size of a house, we wouldn't have had so many late books in the 2000's.#RIPJimShooter
— Ghost (@basebaritone) July 1, 2025
Not an understatement to say he commanded @MarvelComicsHQ greatest era. We were blessed.#RIPJimShooter
— @comixandcrypto (@comixandcrypto) July 1, 2025
Jim Shooter has passed at the age of 79 of oesophageal cancer. He brought legends, orchestrated the Secret Wars, his method Marvelous. #RIPJimShooter @DrunkSuperman3 @Fenrirtheicewo1 @DjuricTine @JeanGen09181213 https://t.co/UnK2Vzlno9
— Reaper Jones (The Mad Streamer) (@d_eorzea) July 1, 2025
Oh no.#RIPJimShooter, Marvel Editor-In-Chief Through Crucial 80s Era, Dies At 73 via @forbes https://t.co/oOgmjLCEtL
— Ready to admit Thanos was right yet? (@OverlordOf_Evil) July 1, 2025
Quem é cria dos X-Men de Claremont/Byrne, DD do Miller, Thor do Simonson, QF do Byrne, Aranha do Stern e, claro, Guerras Secretas... Tem uma dívida moral c/ Jim Shooter, editor linha dura que modernizou a Marvel entre 78 e 87. P/ muitos, um mala. P/ mim, um gênio. #RipJimShooter. pic.twitter.com/AM7oYfuWFM
— Os Escapistas (@osescapistas) July 1, 2025
Porque precisamos celebrar a memória do escritor, editor e empresário JIM SHOOTER. Arte de Mike Zeck. #JimShooter #RIPJimShooter #Marvel
— Claudio Basilio (@claudio-basilio.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Hands down one of my favorite authors growing up. An absolute legend. #ripJimShooter search.app/RWHJM
— finfangfo0m (@finfangfo0m.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Part 2 is shorter at just 3+ hours. #RIPJimShooter youtu.be/m4VrPRmoCZs?...
— TheRealityComics (@therealitycomics.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Legendary writer & editor, Jim Shooter passed away today at age 73 from esophageal cancer. His influence and legacy lives on thru his work with the great creators and major titles and publishers of the 70s & 80s. #RIPJimShooter
— Tosche Station (@toschenation.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Porque precisamos prestar todas as homenagens possíveis ao gigantesco escritor e editor JIM SHOOTER. Arte de Fred Hembeck. #JimShooter #RIPJimShooter
— Claudio Basilio (@claudio-basilio.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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#RIPJimShooter #RIPStanLee
— Spider-Lou (@spiderlou2099.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Comic artist Jim Shooter passed away recently. Life is short, eternity is forever. AfterDeathTruth.net Be Ready! #jimshooter #ripjimshooter #rip
— AfterDeathTruth (@afterdeathtruth.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Jim Shooter’s “Steel Nation” run on Magnus Robot Fighter is one of the most under-appreciated comics of the 20th Century. #RIPJimShooter, one of the greats of comics. www.cbr.com/jim-shooter-...
— An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog (@hugobookclub.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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#RIPJimShooter www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...
— Grim_Noir (@grim-noir.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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R.I.P. Jim Shooter, mångårig serieförfattare på DC och Marvel, mångårig chefredaktör på Marvel, grundare av förlaget Valiant… bland mycket mer. #ripjimshooter
— Serieteket (@serieteket.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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#RIPJimShooter I met the man a couple of times at various shows & conventions. Honored to have gotten the chance to spend any time in his presence, talking about the thing we both loved so much, comics. And, of course, getting his autograph.
— The Overlord of All That Is Evil (@overlordofevil.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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R.i.p to famous American writer, editor, and publisher in the comics industry jim shooter thank you for being a force in the comic industry too jim #ripjimshooter
— snlfanguy86.bsky.social (@snlfanguy86.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Just heard about the passing of Jim Shooter, comic legend. My condolences to his family and friends. #RIPJIMSHOOTER
— Read The Freaking Comics! (@xoanontorn.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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#RIPJimShooter
— Sir Jack Caramac (@jackcaramac.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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#RIPJimShooter. Best known for his work at #DCComics, #Marvel, #Valiant & #Defiant, characters and concepts he created appeared in #XMenTAS, #SpiderManTAS, #XMenEvolution, #LegionofSuperHeroes, #YoungJustice & #MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur.
— Saturday Mornings Forever (@satmforever.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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O lendário escritor e editor JIM SHOOTER infelizmente nos abandonou nessa semana. E nesse textinho eu falei um pouco sobre o seu precoce trabalho como escritor da LEGIÃO DOS SUPER-HERÓIS... #JimShooter #RIPJimShooter #dccomics #LegionOfSuperHeroes medium.com/sobrequadrin...
— Claudio Basilio (@claudio-basilio.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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#RIPJimShooter
— Mike Donachie (@mikedonachie.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Sad to hear about the passing of the brilliant and complicated Jim Shooter. I’m actually right in the middle of revisiting his Secret Wars series that captivated me as a youngster. #ripjimshooter #restinpeacejimshooter #comics
— Jim Ousley (@jimousley.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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RIP to a king of #comics ! 🫅🏻 #RIPJimShooter
— DURANT BOOKS 📚 a BRIAN BONDURANT company (@durantbooks.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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