Shirrel Rhoades (/ˈʃɜːrəl ˈroʊdz/ SHUR-əl ROHDZ; born May 19, 1942) is an American writer, publisher, professor, filmmaker, and the former executive vice president of Marvel Entertainment.

He quickly became the Sunday Magazine's assistant editor and chief feature writer, as well as the newspaper's film and theater critic.

In 1968, Rhoades became the executive editor of Etienne Dupuch Jr. Publications, the Nassau-based publisher of The Bahamas Handbook and other travel and educational titles.

Three years later, he was recruited to Charter Publishing as vice president of consumer marketing for Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, and Sport.

As vice president and group publisher, he simultaneously oversaw Scholastic's Consumer and Professional Magazines divisions.

Joining Reader's Digest as vice president of New Business Development, he went on to launch a new book division for RDA.

His clients have included Microsoft, Warner Bros., Time Inc., DC Comics, Mad Magazine, Disney Publishing, Hilton International, Discovery Channel, Canadian Living, Annie's, Strategic Fulfillment Group (SFG), Grey Advertising, J Walter Thompson Direct, Times-Mirror, Highlights for Children, Merk-Medco, Twinlab, Bronson Laboratories, Age Wave Communications, Guideposts, New York, Poets & Writers, Prudential OA, Johnson and Johnson, and Honduras-based OPSA.

[2][4][8] He has helped develop strategic plans for such media companies as America Online (AOL), The Saturday Evening Post Society, U.S.

He is known for his entertainment and travel articles (Saturday Evening Post, Good Old Days, Looking Back, Solares Hill, Sunday Magazine, Tropic Cinema blog, etc.).

He is a former correspondent for Amusement Business; his movie star profiles were a long-standing feature in Good Old Days magazine; and he has appeared as a regular co-host of Art Waves’ “Film on Friday” radio program on KONK AM.

), approved the rough cut for Men In Black, and was involved in planning later Marvel films like Spider-Man and Iron Man.

[12][13] In Key West, he produced a series of Official Fantasy Fest DVDs (starring Traci Bingham, Joanna Krupa, Melissa Wolf, etc.).

He acted as consulting producer on such films as Key West: City of Color, Veritas, Resurrection Mary, Year of the Donkey, and My New Life, among others.