COMIC ARTIST

Jim Starlin

1949 - Today

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James P. Starlin (born October 9, 1949) is an American comics artist and writer. 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, and Shang-Chi, as well as writing the miniseries The Infinity Gauntlet and its many sequels including 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, and the Elders of the Universe, joined by the Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange, Gamora, Nebula, and Drax. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jim Starlin is the 164th most popular comic artist (up from 165th in 2019), the 11,513th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,605th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Jim Starlin ranks 164 out of 226. Before him are Seishi Kishimoto, Inio Asano, Mort Walker, Yoshitoshi ABe, Marv Wolfman, and Oh! great. After him are Alison Bechdel, Peter David, Tooru Fujisawa, Jules Feiffer, Bill Watterson, and Yuu Watase.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jim Starlin ranks 683. Before him are Percy Rojas, Paul Orndorff, Soumaïla Cissé, Osamu Muramatsu, Evgeny Lovchev, and Boy Hayje. After him are Aleksandr Salnikov, David Perdue, Ingrid Newkirk, Scott Asheton, Ann Reinking, and Aleksandar Tomov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Starlin ranks 11,515 out of 20,380. Before him are William Eustis (1753), N. Scott Momaday (1934), B. J. Novak (1979), Kurt Sutter (1960), Ja Rule (1976), and Ezra Taft Benson (1899). After him are Nicki Aycox (1975), Phyllis Somerville (1943), Thane Baker (1931), Abby Mann (1927), Eric Van Lustbader (1946), and George Amick (1924).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Jim Starlin ranks 38. Before him are George Herriman (1880), Mort Walker (1923), Neal Adams (1941), Harvey Kurtzman (1924), and Len Wein (1948). After him are Marv Wolfman (1946), Alison Bechdel (1960), Harvey Pekar (1939), Bill Watterson (1958), Scott Adams (1957), Peter Laird (1954), and Robert Kirkman (1978).

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