Jim Salicrup
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James Alexander Salicrup is an American comic book editor who lives and works in New York City. He is the Editor-in-Chief at Papercutz, publishers of the all-new Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Tales From The Crypt, Totally Spies!, and Zorro graphic novels. He is also a trustee at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (or MoCCA). He writes "Addicted to Comics" at http://www.popcultureshock.com and a blog at MySpace.
Salicrup began his comics career at Marvel Comics, where he worked for twenty years and edited The Uncanny X-Men up to the Death of Phoenix; Fantastic Four; Avengers; the best-selling Spider-Man # 1 by Todd McFarlane; Marvel Age Magazine for eight years; and many other titles, as well as writing Transformers, Sledge Hammer, The A-Team, the Marvel Toilet Paper, Spidey Super Stories, the child abuse prevention issue of Spider-Man, and more.
Salicrup was also Editor-in-Chief of Topps Comics, where he edited Bram Stoker's Dracula, The X-Files, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Zorro, Lady Rawhide, a line of Jack Kirby super-hero titles, Ray Bradbury Comics, and more. At Stan Lee Media, he served as Senior Writer/Editor, as well as the writer and voice of "Stan Lee's Evil Clone."
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- Papercutz website
- MoCCA website
- Salicrup's MySpace profile
- Evolved Friends Productions profile of Salicrup, including some of his Super deformed-style sketches
- A fan listing of comic books that Salicrup has worked on
- Interview with Salicrup at Newsarama
- Another listing of Salicrup's comics and graphic novels
- Audio interview with Salicrup about his career with Marvel and Papercutz