Discover the relationship between Jim Shooter and the Western publishing.

If we stop for a moment to think of American publishers who have dedicated themselves to the publication of fantastic gender comics, thus entertaining readers of different generations, the first to mind, without doubt, are A.D y Wonder.

However, the Western publishing It was another company to be taken into consideration, since, from 1907 until the 1980s, he was responsible both for the genre and others with little relationship with said world, among which we can highlight the adaptations based on the most diverse problems, where, for example, those of the musical groups of the Beatles style or those of these mythical series such as Bonanza are included, I can see that you can see that you can see. Accompany this paragraph.

It turns out that the friendship between Richard Bernsteinreal estate investor who had managed to take control of the Western publishingy Jim Shooterwho exercised as an editor head WonderIt was the most solid. Therefore, when Singer industries Heart The house of ideas For sale, one of those who showed the biggest interest was their own Richard BernsteinAlthough everything went to Fret when, at the last minute, it was destined to increase a price that had already been agreed, that it was out of both the buyer and to lose interest for the company. However, at that point Richard BernsteinI had already had several speeches with Jim Shooter.

In 1987, following these conversations, a Richard Bernstein It occurred to the idea of ​​making profitability to the characters of the Western publishingSince, although he still had the rights of copyright, he had canceled his production of comics for three years, so as to seem advantageous to give them the opportunity to give them WonderI had those little years to get the characters A.DSo he went to Jim Shooter In the following terms:

If you want the rights to be yours. I will not offer them to anyone else. When you are ready to start, let me know.

Although there were other interested in the characters of the Western publishingas in the case of DC Comics, Richard Bernstein He has shown that he was a man of speech by refusing any type of offer. However, the entire situation hit a drastic turning point when Jim Shooter Not only was he fired from his position as editor -in -chief, who was occupied by Tom Defalcobut it was fully fired from The house of ideas.

You don’t have to be any lumbra to give the cold water jar that should Jim Shooter be expelled WonderAbove all because he could not find work in any other editorial and came to think that the world of ninth art had closed the doors definitively. Of course, your departure from The house of ideas assumed that the treatment he had made with Richard Bernstein On the characters of the Western publishing Nothing will remain.

However, Jim Shooter He did not surrender at all and, at the end of 1988, he joined a group of investors to buy it Wonder A Photo of the New Worldwho was his new owner and crossed economic difficulties. However, although they have reached 81 million dollars on the table, Ronald Perelman It was what the cat brought to the water, offering 82.5.

Annoying for what he considered a speculative management from Perelman, Jim Shooter reacted with these prophetic words:

I think they were easy. Instead of being creative, the members of their team work in the short term. Much of what has been done is illusory, even if at least they have shown that the potential of Wonder To become a new Disney I was there.

However, in 1989, Jim Shooter founded the editorial Valiant Comicsso that it was where the characters of the Western publishingalthough not in its entirety, since it preferred to concentrate on the most popular, such as Magnus, Solar or TurokTo which we can see in the lower image, since it has considered them functional simply by modernizing them a little. Considering that this was the best way to pay what Richard Bernstein He had done for him. And the game went well, since then Valiant He started his journey big.

If the characters of the Western publishing it would be over WonderUnless they had gone to a separate line, we could have seen crosses like Iron Man with Magnus, Conan in it Turok Lost Valley or Solar opposite The AvengersEven if we never know what would have happened.

And let’s not talk about itself Western publishing I would have acquired Wonder When the possibility was on the table. It is another option that we could solve only in an alternative reality.