Jim Shooter, Editor Who ‘Saved the Comics Industry,’ Dies at 73

 



He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come.

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"Powerfully built, with a looming 6-foot 7-inch frame, Mr. Shooter dominated the comic-book world for much of the 1980s, reinvigorating an art form that had been in decline by finding new markets and new readers.

Though he was not yet 30 when he took over at Marvel in 1978, he was already an industry veteran. He sold his first comic story, to DC, Marvel’s rival, when he was just 14, and he worked for both companies while still a teenager."

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