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Jim Shooter: From Comics Superstar to Outcast


It's amazing how many times Shooter has been fired as head of a company, or how many times a company he has led went bankrupt. And each time he comes roaring back with new investors, another company, or another line of comics and characters. He must be a remarkably confident guy, to have endured those kind of failures, and be able to so quickly re-group and come back with a different set of ideas to market. And certainly has had many remarkable successes as well. Sometimes replaced despite his success (Et tu, Bob Layton?)

I missed the symbolism at the time of blowing up Philadelphia (Shooter's hometown) in STARBRAND (scripted by Byrne).
And Byrne's outdoor cookout with Marvel staffers where they burned a life-size Jim Shooter in effigy, just prior to his being fired as editor in chief at Marvel.
Wild stuff.