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This is an effort to catalog and promote the complete works
of Jim Shooter. I'm not a hard-core comic book fan because most of
what I have read has been garbage. It's hard to keep investing
money into a medium that doesn't consistently produce quality work.
My experience has been most comic books are the equivalent of an
overhyped, big-budget Hollywood movie: a formulated storyline
where the good guy does no wrong, nothing earth-shattering or
jaw-dropping happens and the viewer goes away wanting 2 hours of
their life back.
Comic book stories don't always have to take place in outer space
with parallel universes and time travel. Characters don't always have
to be indestructible mutants with super-human strength and the power
to resurrect themselves. Jim Shooter seems to understand this. His
comics don't suck.
This site is not for serious collectors. If you need to
have every variant, every send-away, every cardset, every lunchbox
or every poster, this is not the place for you.
This site is geared towards people who want to read the stories and
immerse themselves in the great continuity and storytelling of Jim
Shooter. The information and checklists on this site focus on
collecting only those issues needed to move the story along. Not all
of us needs to own three cover variations of the same issue, some of
us just like a well-told story that might make us think.
Shooter began writing comics for DC at the age of 13. In 1978 at the
age of 27, he became editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics which lasted
until 1987. After a failed attempt to buy Marvel Comics, Shooter
used his funding to start Valiant. After the huge success of
Valiant's Unity crossover, the founders wanted to sell and Shooter
felt he was getting a bum deal. After being forced out of Valiant,
he founded Defiant which got sued out of business by Marvel. His
last company, Broadway, tried to get started during the mid-90s
comic lull and closed a year later.
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