Jim Shooter
From The Transformers UK Appendix
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Jim Shooter (born September 27, 1951) is a comic book writer, editor, and publisher. He began his comic career aged 14. In 1978, Shooter became editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, instituting a revolutionary (if dictatorial) regime while Smilin' Stan Lee was in Los Angeles overseeing Marvel's animation, television, and film projects.
Shooter held the editor-in-chief position between 1978 and 1987, and is thus credited on the majority of TFUK's U.S. reprint content (though only as a consultant on Marv Wolfman's stuff, apparently). He was succeeded at the post by Tom DeFalco.
Work credited to Shooter in TFUK
Machine Man
- As roles variously containing the words "consultant" and "editor"
- "Introducing Machine Man" (uncredited)
- "Byte of the Binary Bug!"
- "Where Walk the Gods!"
- "Xanadu!"
- "The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls"
- As editor-in-chief
- "Kill Me or Cure Me"
- "Baron Brimstone and his Sinister Satan Squad!"
- "Arms and the Robot!"
- "Alone Against Alpha Flight!"
- "Jolted by Jack O'Lantern!"
- "He Lives Again!"
- "If This Be Sanctuary?!"
- "Rime of the Ancient Wrecker!"
- "Victory"
Planet Terry
- As editor-in-chief
Iron Man
- As editor-in-chief
Robotix
- As editor-in-chief
Rocket Raccoon
- As editor-in-chief
- "Animal Crackers"
- "The Masque of the Red Breath"
- "The Book of Revelations!"
- "The Age of Enlightenment"
Hercules
- As editor-in-chief
- "What Fools These Immortals Be!"
- "For the Love of Gods"
- "Whom the God Would Destroy!"
- "Not Just Another Galactus Story!"
Spitfire and the Troubleshooters!
- As editor-in-chief
- "Beginnings"
- "Behemoth"
- "Counter Attack"
G.I. Joe: The Action Force
- "Improvisation on a Theme"
- "Slaughter"
- "Serpentor"
- "The Battle of Springfield"
- "Thunder Machine"
- "Snap Decisions"
- "Pit-Fall"
- "Launch Base"
- "Unmaskings"
- "Jungle Moves"
- "Hush Job"
- "Strange Bedfellows"
- "Desperate Moves"
- "Divergent Paths"
- "Cross Purposes"
- "Beginnings... and Endings"
- "Evasion"
- "Transit"
- "Going Under"
- "Manoeuvreing for Position
- "Shuttle Complex"
Inhumanoids
- "The Coming of the Inhumanoids! Part 1"
- "The Coming of the Inhumanoids! Part II or "I Left My Monsters in San Francisco""
- "The Coming of the Inhumanoids: The Battle Down Below!"
- "Metlar Unleashed"
Notes
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- Shooter wrote the initial six-page treatment for The Transformers, before the project was handed to Bob Budiansky for further development.