Jim Galton is a retired American business executive known for being Marvel Entertainment Group's president.

Life

Galton grew up on Long Island in the 1950s. He attended Antioch College

Antioch College

Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was the founder and the flagship institution of the six-campus Antioch University system. Founded in 1852 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1853 with politician and...

 with a work study program to help pay for college. Initial a sociology major, he soon changed his major to business.

Career

After graduating, Galton accept an accountant position where he worked for four years. He then when to an advertising agency then to a magazine publisher, Moving up the ladder. Galton eventually ended up at a paperback publisher, Popular Library

Popular Library

Popular Library was a New York paperback book company established in 1942 by Leo Margulies and Ned Pines, who at the time was a major pulp magazine, newspapers and magazine publishers...

 Books. He was executive vice president when CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 purchased the company. He soon became president only to be fired by new CBS leadership over his business plan.

Galton then was hired by Cadence Industries

Cadence Industries

Cadence Industries Corporation, formerly Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation, was an American conglomerate owned by Martin "Marty" S. Ackerman. From 1968 through 1986, Perfect/Cadence was the parent company of the publisher of Marvel Comics....

 as Marvel Comics Group

Marvel Comics

Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...

 president in 1975. He move licensing in house starting with international in 1978 then domestic in 1981. He also moved the company more into animation with Marvel Productions

Marvel Productions

Marvel Productions Ltd. , last called New World Animation, was a television and film studio subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment Group , based in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, then New World Entertainment and News Corporation/Fox...

 in 1980 and publishing with Marvel Books

Marvel Books

Marvel Books refers to prose books licensed by Marvel Entertainment or its division in the 1980s that published coloring books and sticker books...

 division in 1982. He left Marvel in 1991.

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