{"id":84,"date":"2010-04-07T14:49:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2010-04-07T14:49:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:49:50","slug":"before-they-were-stars-1-jim-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/before-they-were-stars-1-jim-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Before They Were Stars #1 Jim Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don’t even start at Marvel or DC. Here’s a look at some work by comic book creators … before they were stars.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"SolsonAfter more than twenty years in the business, the name Jim Lee <\/strong>is sure to conjure up many different thoughts, depending on who you are. His credits include pencilling and co-writing 1991’s X-Men <\/em> vol. II #1, launching Image Comics <\/a>with several other creators, creating the Wildstorm Universe and most recently he was named co-publisher of DC Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, during the indy comic boom, Solson Publications <\/strong>put out a strange variety of titles including Reagan’s Raiders <\/em>(yep. Ronald Reagan), the How to Draw Comics Comic<\/em>, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles <\/em>Martial Arts Guide, and a book called Samurai Funnies <\/em>that put a samurai slant on horror movies. In a similar vein, they produced the Solson Christmas Special <\/em>starring Samurai Santa <\/strong>in 1986. This comic is Jim Lee<\/strong>‘s first published work, as he shares the art chores with Don Secrease<\/strong>. The inside front cover even has a mini-bio on Lee. Who would have imagined that five years later, he would have been part of the best selling comic of all time (X-Men<\/em> vol. II #1)?<\/p>\n

On Ebay<\/u>: Jim Lee<\/a> | Solson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don’t even start at Marvel or DC. Here’s a look at some work by comic book creators … before they were stars. After more than twenty years in the business, the name Jim Lee is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-they-were-comic-book-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}