In the mid-1970s, Marvel Comics was undergoing a series of changes in the position of Editor-in-Chief.

Marvel enjoyed some of its best successes during Shooter's nine-year tenure as Editor-in-Chief, most notably Chris Claremont and John Byrne's run on the Uncanny X-Men, Frank Miller's run on Daredevil, Walt Simonson's run on The Mighty Thor, John Byrne's run on the Fantastic Four and Roger Stern's run on the Avengers.

This story was written by Shooter, then Editor-in-Chief at Marvel Comics.

Editor-in-Chief Len Wein's Marvel Comics-esque approach to the Disney characters was criticized by many older Disney fans.

The hiring of Wein has been championed by the comic book creative community as an alternative to the much disliked former Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter, who had made a favorable impression when interviewed by Disney management.

* Joe Quesada ( born 1962 ), Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics.

After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to.

In 1986, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter approached Hama with a mock-up of a comic book cover that was, as Hama remembers, " a color copy of the artwork from a G. I.

A tremendous roster of legendary creators have worked on Shadowman characters and storylines including current Marvel Comics Editor-in Chief Joe Quesada, former Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter, Sin City co-director Frank Miller, Garth Ennis, Rob Liefeld, Barry Windsor-Smith, Jamie Delano, Steve Ditko, David Lapham, Rags Morales, Fabian Nicieza, Jim Starlin, Bob Layton, Jimmy Palmiotti, Walt Simonson and Ashley Wood among many others.

The first major crossover event was spearheaded by the Marvel Editor-in-Chief at the time, Jim Shooter.

* Tom DeFalco, former Editor-in-Chief, Marvel Comics

In 1983, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter created the Marvel Try-out Book to draw new talent into the comic book industry.

The move was done in part due to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada's desire to emulate the success he had with X-Force, which was reformatted with a new cast of characters and status quo that was successful in sales and popularity.

DeFalco and Frenz were both removed from Amazing Spider-Man by then Spider-editor Jim Owsley, under the orders of Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter.

On March 12, 2007, the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, Joe Quesada, awarded Stephen Colbert the shield of the recently deceased superhero Captain America.

In 1971, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee was approached by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to do a comic book story about drug abuse.

In August 2005 Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada named him as one of Marvel Comics's " Young Guns ", a group of artists who have the qualities that make " a future superstar penciller ".

In 2009 Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada announced that Jimenez would take over the art chores on Astonishing X-Men beginning with Issue # 31.

** Joe Quesada extends his contract agreement with Marvel Comics, and in addition to his current role as Editor-in-Chief, he will take on the added role as the Chief Creative Officer, Publishing.

In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics.

* On The Colbert Report, following the death of Captain America in Marvel continuity, Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada bequeathed a " replica " of the Captain's vibranium shield to Stephen Colbert.

Comic book artist and former Marvel Comics Editor in Chief Joe Quesada also borrowed from Mucha's techniques for a series of covers, posters, and prints.

However, with Marvel EIC Joe Quesada's anti-smoking policy, this trait has completely vanished.

Marvel Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada said that he feels the marriage ages the characters, making them less appealing to young readers, and lessens the dramatic, " soap opera " possibilities, but also stated that " divorcing or widowing, or annulling the marriage ... would only be worse.

In addition to the Wolverine series and appearances in the various X-Men series, two other storylines expand upon the character's past: " Weapon X ", by writer-artist Barry Windsor-Smith, serialized in Marvel Comics Presents # 72-84 ( 1991 ); and Origin, a six-issue limited series by co-writers Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, and Bill Jemas and artist Andy Kubert ( November 2001 – July 2002 ).

The WaRP work eventually led to comic-book assignments from DC Comics ( Angel and the Ape, Plastic Man and Stanley and His Monster miniseries ), Marvel Comics, and First Comics ( back up stories in issues of Grimjack and scripting over Doug Rice's plots in Dynamo Joe ).

Siegel's later work would appear in Marvel Comics, where under the pseudonym " Joe Carter " he scripted the " Human Torch " feature in Strange Tales # 112-113 ( Sept .- Oct. 1963 ), introducing the teenaged Torch's high school girlfriend, Doris Evans ; and, under his own name, a backup feature starring the X-Men member Angel, which ran in Marvel Tales and Ka-Zar.

In 2006, Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada and Editor Mark Paniccia set in motion events to celebrate Marvel Comics ' 20th Anniversary of the New Universe.

* Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds-Viewtiful Joe

Artist and former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada begins with sketches much smaller than the actual size at which he will render the final drawing.

In 2001 Marvel Comics was undergoing a revamp by its new editor-in-chief Joe Quesada and one of his aims was to revamp the X-Men family of titles.

Cockrum discovered comic books at a young age ; an early favorite was Fawcett's Captain Marvel, especially Mac Raboy's Captain Marvel Jr. Other artists whose work the young Cockrum admired were Wally Wood, Gil Kane, Murphy Anderson, and Joe Kubert.

Around the time Bendis began Sam and Twitch, his friend David Mack began working for Joe Quesada's Marvel Knights imprint, of which Bendis himself was a fan.

Joe and The Transformers for Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions.

Joe Quesada and former Marvel president Bill Jemas were also involved in the creation of the line.

On July 24, 2010, Marvel Comics ' editor-in-chief Joe Quesada announced at the San Diego Comicon that Marvel ( by now, also a Disney-owned company ) would revive CrossGen titles.

Based on Bendis ' work on Jinx, Quesada invited him to pitch ideas for Marvel Knights, which included a planned, but ultimately unproduced Nick Fury story.

Marvel Comics President Bill Jemas, on the recommendation of Quesada, hired Bendis to write Ultimate Spider-Man, which debuted in 2000, and was specifically targeted to the new generation of comic readers.

Jemas and Quesada formed the public face of Marvel, taking the roles of, according to Comic Book Resources ' Rich Johnston, " good cop and bad cop ".

Jemas and Quesada's partnership would eventually suffer amid controversy generated by Jemas, which Marvel executives frowned upon, and which resulted in Quesada distancing himself from Jemas in the eyes of Marvel staff and freelancers.

In 1998, Marvel Comics, which had just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, asked Quesada to work for Marvel in a more exclusive capacity, and contracted him and his partners to produce a line of Marvel books dubbed Marvel Knights.

As editor of Marvel Knights, Quesada worked on a number of low-profile characters such as Daredevil, Punisher, The Inhumans and Black Panther, encouraging experimentation and using his contacts in the independent comics world to bring in creators such as David W. Mack, Mike Oeming, Brian Michael Bendis, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.