“Guess I’ll finally have to sit down and watch the movie,” he wrote. Famous Characters: Batman Written by Jim Starlin Art by Jim Aparo and Mike DeCarlo Batman readers were allowed to vote on the outcome of the story and they decided that Robin should die As the second person to assume the role of Batmans sidekick, Jason Todd had a completel. In case Starlin’s post seemed too much like a commercial for DC, he did throw a little shade at the end of his post, admitting that he’d yet to find time to enjoy BvS for himself.

“I’m not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I’m getting a little something out of it.” Literally, it seems, a little something. “I’d like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first Avengers movie came out, Marvel and I - we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing,” he said. However, Starlin only did one more issue before being taken off of the book. Jim Starlin is the acclaimed author of classic graphic novels including, for DC Comics, Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: A Death in the Family, as well as the 1982 Marvel graphic novel The Death of Captain Marvel. Last year, Starlin told Heat Vision that he had renegotiated his deal with Marvel over its usage of Thanos, ahead of the character’s onscreen debut in 2012’s The Avengers. So yeah, Starlin definitely seems to show Batman as a changed person due to the death of Jason. Batman: A Death in the Family collects Batman 426-429. The character onscreen bears little similarity to the Starlin-created character, who - in DC’s comic mythology - is better known by his nom-de-plume, the K.G.Beast. After leaving the Navy, Starlin sold two stories to DC Comics. During his off duty time, he drew and submitted various comics. In the 1960s, Starlin served as an aviation photographer in the US Navy in Vietnam. (For the record, he’s the Russian warlord who kidnaps Lois in the beginning of the movie and later repeats that trick by kidnapping Martha Wayne. Jim Starlin was born on October 9, 1949, in Detroit, Michigan. What makes this particularly surprising is that Anatoli Knyazev is a relatively minor figure at best in the movie it’s possible that many viewers would have no idea who he was at all.

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