Editing Jim Shooter (section)

=== Defiant and Broadway Comics ===
After being ousted from Valiant in 1992,<ref>"NewsWatch: Voyager Fires Jim Shooter," ''The Comics Journal'' #151 (July 1992), p. 15.</ref> Shooter and several of his co-workers went on to found [[Defiant Comics]] in early 1993.<ref>"Newswatch: Shooter Forms New Comics Company: Defiant Comics is New Imprint," ''The Comics Journal'' #155 (January 1993), p. 23.</ref> Despite some initial success with the first title, the new company failed to secure an audience in the increasingly crowded direct sales market and went out of business after thirteen months of publishing.<ref>"Comics Publishers Suffer Tough Summer: Body Count Rises in Market Shakedown," ''The Comics Journal'' #172 (Nov. 1994), pp. 13–18.</ref>

In 1995, Shooter founded [[Broadway Comics]], which was an offshoot of [[Broadway Video]],<ref>"Newswatch: Shooter&nbsp;— 4th Try a Charm?" ''The Comics Journal'' #174 (February 1995), pp. 29–30.</ref> the production company that produces ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', but this line ended after its parent sold the properties to [[Golden Books]].<ref>"Shooter, Fowlkes Finishing Run Off Broadway as Golden Books Cancels Comics Line," ''The Comics Journal'' No. 192 (December 1996), pp. 31–32.</ref> In 1998, he spoke of a planned self-publishing, Daring Comics, with a projected eight titles including ''Anomalies'' and ''Rathh of God'', with artist Joe James scheduled to draw at least one.<ref name=coville>{{cite news| url=http://www.collectortimes.com/1998_09/Clubhouse.html |first=Jamie|last= Coville |title=An Interview with Jim Shooter| work= Collector Times|date= September 1998| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120212024330/http://www.collectortimes.com/1998_09/Clubhouse.html | archive-date= February 12, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

Shooter returned to Valiant, by now called [[Acclaim Comics]], briefly in 1999 to write ''[[Unity 2000]]'' (an attempt to combine and revitalize the older and newer [[Valiant Universe]]s) but Acclaim went out of business after the completion of only three of the planned six issues.

[[File:7.17.10ShooterCaleroByLuigiNovi13.jpg|thumb|left|Shooter and [[Dennis Calero]] at a signing for [[Dark Horse Comics|Dark Horse]]'s ''[[Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom]]'' at [[Midtown Comics Times Square]], July 17, 2010]]