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Jim Shooter, Former Marvel EIC, Dead At Age 73

Jim Shooter, a comic book writer, editor and publisher known for his stint as EIC of Marvel Comics, has died at age 73.

With Stan Lee headed to the West Coast to supervise animation and follow his TV dreams, Shooter was mostly left alone to manage the comics. On the other hand, he reportedly alienated multiple creators, and famously forbade John Byrne from allowing the character of Northstar to be revealed as gay. Jim left comics in the late 1960s, returning in 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.

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