John Romita Sr.

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1930-01-24

Deathday 2023-06-13 (93 years old)

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As John Victor Romita, John Victor Romita Sr., John Romita Sr.

John Romita Sr.

Biography

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 Spider-Man and for co-creating 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 Marvel's traffic manager. His first comics work was in 1949 as a ghost artist for Timely Comics, the precursor to Marvel, through which Romita met editor-in-chief 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 1958–1965 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 well-known for. Romita joined Marvel in 1965, initially drawing Daredevil comics. In 1966, Spider-Man artist and co-creator Steve Ditko left Marvel, and Romita was chosen by writer Lee as the new artist for The Amazing Spider-Man title. Within a year of Romita becoming the Spider-Man artist, The Amazing Spider-Man rose from Marvel's second-best-selling title to the company's top-seller. Romita brought a new romance style to Spider-Man comics that soon became the new house style for the character. In June 1973, Romita was promoted to Marvel's 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Writer

2024
Deadpool & Wolverine

as Characters

2020
Helstrom

as Characters

2017
Marvel's The Punisher

as Comic Book

2013
Truth in Journalism

as Characters

1989
The Punisher

as Characters

Crew

2024
Echo

as Thanks

2024
X-Men '97

as Thanks

2021
Black Widow

as Thanks

2021
Hawkeye

as Thanks

2021
What If...?

as Thanks

2017
Logan

as Thanks