Adventures of Superman Annual No.1 (writer, 1987).

After leaving the Navy, he sold two stories to DC Comics which started off his career. During his off duty time, he drew and submitted various comics. In the 1960s, James served as an aviation photographer in the US Navy in Vietnam. 'Jim' Starlin (Born October 9, 1949) was a American comic book writer,inker, and artist with a long career dating back to the early 1970's, James is best known for his 'Cosmic' tales and space opera for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock and for creating and or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora and Shang-Chi Master of Kung Fu. For DC he created Hardcore Station.James P. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. 1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. 1988), and the storyline 'Batman: A Death in the Family', in Batman #426-429 (Dec. In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character, Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. Starlin also drew 'The Secret of Skull River', inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974). Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for 'cosmic' tales and space opera for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. 'Jim' Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist.

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