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Trouble Shooter
“I wanna be Jim’s Shooter!” some ‘clever’ wag in fandom said once in the 80s. HA HA GOT ‘IM. Cool way to enjoy comics, bro. There was a LOT of vitriol around Jim Shooter then in those times (and certainly extending into the 90s as he launched several failed publishing ventures), some of it warranted,…
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When cometh… THE COMMUTER
Peter Allen David got it. He was a journalist. He wrote stuff. The amazing thing was… Marvel editorial didn’t want him. They were locked in battle against the forces of the Sales Department, which is where PAD got his foot in the door at Marvel. It took maverick editor Jim Owsley (now known as the…
