| Creator Jim Mooney (1919-2008) |
| Profession Penciller, Inker |
| Total Entries 12 |
| Articles Jim Mooney – Lambiek Comiclopedia Jim Mooney – Wikipedia |
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CBA: What brought you from DC to Marvel in the late ’60s? What precipitated that? Jim Mooney: At that time, I imagine you’re pretty well aware that they were trying to establish more or less of a style, the Neal Adams type of approach, and a lot of us who were drawing in the earlier, more simplistic style, well, let’s just say it was myself, George Papp, Wayne Boring, Al Plastino. Our style was pretty much what they wanted to be for Superman, and the Superman characters; but it wasn’t the illustrative style that Neal Adams established, and that was the direction they decided to go. Carmine Infantino was in the driver’s seat at that time, and he wanted us to work more illustratively. We tried, and I did do a few “Supergirl” strips at that time that were beginning to get a little bit more on the illustrative side, but finally, it came to my attention that I didn’t think my services were going to be needed there very much longer, so I went over to Marvel. Of course, I’d known Stan—we knew each other socially before that and I would have liked to have worked for Marvel before ’69, but their rates were too low at that time—they didn’t come up to DC’s rates—they weren’t equal. So, I approached Marvel and I said, “Is there anything in the offering?” And Stan said, “You picked a good time: We’d like somebody to do a little finalized penciling with John Romita, and inking.” And Stan asked me if I’d give it a shot, and that lasted for quite a while. ~ Jim Mooney Interview – TwoMorrows Publishing
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