The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation.

All the issues were really fun, with the story building up to the Infinity Gauntlet, Starlin was on top of his game here.

1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. Jim Starlin's run on the Silver Surfer is so much better than Englehart's and the art of Rom Lim is a perfect match. 1988), and the storyline 'Batman: A Death in the Family', in Batman #426-429 (Dec. In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character, Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. Following his defeat in their previous battle due to Thanos's unexpected power increase at the hands of Mistress Death, the Surfer squares off with Thanos prepared to face him down. Starlin also drew 'The Secret of Skull River', inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974). Silver Surfer 38 Their second battle takes place four issues later in Jim Starlin and Ron Lim's Silver Surfer 38. Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for 'cosmic' tales and space opera for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. 'Jim' Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist.

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