John Romita Sr.

John Victor Romita Sr January 24 1930 June 12 2023 was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics The Amazing SpiderMan and for cocreating characters including Mary Jane Watson the Punisher and Wolverine Romita is the father of John Romita Jr also a comic book artist and husband of Virginia Romita for many years Marvels traffic manager His first comics work was in 1949 as a ghost artist for Timely Comics the precursor to Marvel through which Romita met editorinchief Stan Lee In 1951 Romita began drawing horror war and romance comics for Atlas Comics previously Timely and also drew his first superhero work a 1950s revival of Captain America He began working exclusively for DC Comics from 19581965 and was the artist for many of their romance comics During these years Romita further developed his ability to draw beautiful women which he later became wellknown for Romita joined Marvel in 1965 initially drawing Daredevil comics In 1966 SpiderMan artist and cocreator Steve Ditko left Marvel and Romita was chosen by writer Lee as the new artist for The Amazing SpiderMan title Within a year of Romita becoming the SpiderMan artist The Amazing SpiderMan rose from Marvels secondbestselling title to the companys topseller Romita brought a new romance style to SpiderMan comics that soon became the new house style for the character In June 1973 Romita was promoted to Marvels art director and heavily influenced the look of Marvel comics throughout the 1970s and 1980s He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002 Description above from the Wikipedia article John Romita Sr licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia