James P Starlin was born on October 9,1949 and is an American comics artist and writer.
20 Facts About Jim Starlin
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Jim Starlin was born on October 9,1949, in Detroit, Michigan.
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Jim Starlin was part of the generation of artists and writers who grew up as fans of Silver Age Marvel Comics.
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Jim Starlin then drew three issues of Iron Man, that introduced the characters Thanos and Drax the Destroyer.
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Jim Starlin was then given the chance to draw an issue of the "cosmic" title Captain Marvel.
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Jim Starlin took over as plotter the following issue, and began developing an elaborate story arc centered on the villainous Thanos, and spread across a number of Marvel titles.
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Jim Starlin left Captain Marvel one issue after concluding his Thanos saga.
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Concurrently in the mid-1970s, Jim Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach.
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Jim Starlin then took over the title Warlock, starring a genetically engineered being created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the 1960s and re-imagined by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane in the 1970s as a Jesus Christ-like figure on an alternate Earth.
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Death and suicide are recurring themes in Jim 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.
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Jim Starlin occasionally worked for Marvel's chief competitor DC Comics and drew stories for Legion of Super-Heroes and the "Batman" feature in Detective Comics in the late 1970s.
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Jim Starlin was given the opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character.
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Jim Starlin wrote and drew Gilgamesh II in 1989 before returning to Marvel.
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Back at Marvel, Jim Starlin began scripting a revival of the Silver Surfer series.
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In 2003, Jim Starlin wrote and drew the Marvel Comics miniseries Marvel: The End.
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The series starred Thanos and a multitude of Marvel characters, and subsequently, Jim Starlin was assigned an eponymous Thanos series.
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Jim Starlin then worked for independent companies, creating Cosmic Guard published by Devil's Due and then Dynamite Entertainment in 2006.
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Jim Starlin returned to DC and, with artist Shane Davis, wrote the miniseries Mystery in Space vol.
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In 2016, Jim Starlin's drawing hand was injured in an accident, which limited him to writing stories without the opportunity to illustrate them.
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In early 2020 it was announced that Jim Starlin had rehabilitated his drawing hand and would be publishing a new Dreadstar graphic novel, Dreadstar Returns, backed by a successful Kickstarter campaign.