John Romita, Sr. (often known as simply John Romita) (born January 24, 1930) is an Italian-American comic-book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002.
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.
The son of a baker, John Romita was born and raised in Brooklyn, Ne...
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John Romita, Sr. (often known as simply John Romita) (born January 24, 1930) is an Italian-American comic-book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002.
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.
The son of a baker, John Romita was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, with three sisters and a brother. He graduated from Manhattan's School of Industrial Art in 1947, having attended for the years after spending ninth grade at a Brooklyn junior high school. Among his instructors were book illustrator Howard Simon and magazine illustrator Ben Clements, and his influences included comics artists Noel Sickles, Roy Crane, Milton Caniff, and, later, Alex Toth, and Carmine Infantino, as well as commercial illustrators Jon Whitcomb, Colby Whitmore, and Al Parker.
Romita broke into comics on the seminal...
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