Editing Jim Shooter (section)

== Early life ==
Jim Shooter was born in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], to parents Ken and Eleanor "Ellie" Shooter,<ref name="Shooter, Jim 1982">Shooter, Jim. "Bullpen Bulletins", Marvel comics cover-dated August 1982.</ref><ref>Shooter, Jim. "Bullpen Bulletins," Marvel comics cover-dated October 1982.</ref> who were of [[Polish people|Polish]] descent.<ref>{{cite comic|writer=Shooter, Jim|story=Bullpen Bulletins|title=[[The Fantastic Four]]|issue=241|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]|date=April 1982|page=22}}</ref> Shooter read comics as a child, though he stopped when he was about eight years old. His interest in the medium was rekindled in 1963, at the age of twelve, while he recovered in a hospital after undergoing minor surgery. He was impressed with the style of Marvel Comics, which had only begun publication two years earlier. Thinking that if he learned to write the types of stories that Marvel published, he would be an asset to [[DC Comics]] – whose books, he felt, "needed the help" – Shooter spent about a year reading and studying comics from both companies.<ref name=GraphicNYC />