QUOTE: Here's a question for the board: who would you rather have running Marvel right now, Joe Quesada or Jim Shooter? It's the taskmaster vs. the libertine.

Shooter even at his worst he never did the garbage that Quesada has.  He would never let some hollywood hack rip Spideys eye out.

Shooter is the classic example of "Power corrupts..Absolute Power corrupts absolutely"

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You think he would have learned froim past errors though.  He did do some good things, and it is a shame he did not learn in his new companies

He most likely would not allow the missed deadlines and the "characters being written out of character for shock value" stories, which are two of the biggest problems with present-day Marvel. 

I'll agree on the former, but I'm not so sure I'd trust the man responsible for "breaking" Hank Pym to stamp out "characters being written out of character for shock value stories".

I only find some X-men out of character in Secret Wars I and I really enjoy Doom.

Shooter onced vetoed the idea to give Spidey an illegitimate baby. At least he says so [2000 interview]:

Then Bill Mantlo walks into my office one time and he's having a major war with whoever was his editor at the time. He's insisting he wants to do this story where Spider-Man fathers an illegitimate child and I said, no. Tell you what, do that same story, call him Arachnid Man, do it for Epic. And everybody will really know that it's Spider-Man. He said, "Why not?" I said, "Look, we have licensed Spider-Man for Underroos. We have things in the contract that say we won't do things like that." I said, "Can you imagine, on a slow news day, the president of Union underwear wakes up and there on CNN, they're talking about Spider-Man fathering an illegitimate child. All over the Bible Belt, Underroos are being pulled off the shelves. ... The people who own this company have put me here in order to keep you from doing that. Do that in the adult line for Epic. These just aren't our characters and we can't just mess around with them like that. We do have obligations. I didn't carve them, but they're there."

He was out of his mind, he threw a fit. Does an interview about how I was denying him his creative freedom. You know what. Yes, I did. And I would do it every time. ... I always tried to make the best judgment at the time I made them. I never made one in self-interest.