He then drew three issues of Iron Man, that introduced the characters Thanos and Drax the Destroyer. Starlin's first job for Marvel was as a finisher on pages of The Amazing Spider-Man. At a Steve Ditko-focused panel at the 2008 Comic-Con International, Starlin said, 'Everything I learned about storytelling was him or Kirby. Starlin was part of the generation of artists and writers who grew up as fans of Silver Age Marvel Comics. Īfter writing and drawing stories for a number of fan publications, Jim Starlin entered the comics industry in 1972, working for Roy Thomas and John Romita at Marvel Comics.

Early career Īfter leaving the Navy, Starlin sold two stories to DC Comics. During his off duty time, he drew and submitted various comics. In the 1960s, Starlin served as an aviation photographer in the US Navy in Vietnam. Jim Starlin was born on October 9, 1949, in Detroit, Michigan. For Epic Illustrated, he created his own character, Dreadstar. Later, for DC Comics, he drew many of their iconic characters, including Darkseid and other characters from Jack Kirby's Fourth World, and wrote the seminal storyline A Death in the Family which featured the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin, during his run on Batman. Beginning his career in the early 1970s, he is best known for space opera stories, for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock, and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, Nebula, and Shang-Chi, as well as writing the acclaimed miniseries The Infinity Gauntlet and its many sequels, namely The Infinity War and The Infinity Crusade, all detailing Thanos' pursuit of the Infinity Gems to court Mistress Death by annihilating half of all life in the cosmos, before coming into conflict with the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, the Elders of the Universe, joined by Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange, Gamora, Nebula, and Drax. Starlin (born October 9, 1949) is an American comics artist and writer.

Batman by Jim Starlin