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BIG BROADCAST: Jim Shooter Speaks!

shooter-2244622He started in comics almost before he started junior high school – and four decades he is ready to make his comeback at the very spot where it all started. Yes, Jim Shooter tells The Big ComicMix Broadcast why he’s returning to The Legion of Super-Heroes!

We also give you a rundown of missing comics, new DC variants and the word on the Transformers DVD release – plus we tell you the story of a guy who hooked up with The Who, flamed on and had a hit record!

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Jim Shooter: Long as well as tall

268855658_d15476a334-4955944With the announcement that Jim Shooter is returning to a regular writing gig on Legion of Super-Heroes, he takes over a different title as well: he’s the man with the longest writing career currently writing a comic series.

Jim’s first comic, as we all know, was Adventure Comics #346, cover dated July 1966. Taking over Legion means that his career as a comics writer now spans over 41 years. But did you know that Jim laid out those early Legion stories as well as writing them?

New Shooter work at Valiant

zephyr-3077693Like many of you, I thought the Valiant universe was dead and gone. Well, not so fast.

CBR reports that Valiant will be releasing a hardcover collection entitled Harbinger: The Beginning (which will be "digitally recolored and remastered using state-of-the-art computer techniques") which will include a brand-new story written by one-time Valiant head-honcho Jim Shooter, with art by Bob Hall (who drew Valiant’s Shadowman) entitled "The Origin of Harada."

The book is solicited in June previews, which means it’ll be in stores in August (Valiant’s shooting, pun intended, for the 29th).  I’m very pleased because this item gives me an excuse to run a picture of one of my favorite all-time comic book characters, the lovely and zaftig Zephyr.

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