He also created the younger-skewing “Spidey Super Stories” for the publisher under the tutelage of child psychologists and, in his early years with the company, helped Marvel turn “The Amazing Spider-Man” into its top-selling title. Romita Sr., known as “Jazzy” John Romita in the Marvel Bullpen, was the art director of Marvel Comics in the early 1970s and collaborated with late Marvel powerhouse Stan Lee. His wife of 70 years, Virginia, 91, was home with him at the time. The artist and art director died “peacefully in his sleep” at his longtime Floral Park, N.Y., home Monday morning, said his son comic artist John Romita Jr. is widely credited with transforming Spider-Man into Marvel's most iconic character.Legendary comic book artist John Romita Sr., who worked on timeless early issues of “Spider-Man” and breathed life into Marvel’s Wolverine and Mary Jane Watson with his work, has died at 93. drew him as a romantic hero - and gave him a beautiful new love interest in the form of Mary Jane Watson, whom Romita modeled after actress Ann-Margret. Ditko had given Peter Parker a nerdy, alienated look, but Romita Sr. took over as the regular artist on Amazing Spider-Man and helped make it Marvel's single most popular comic over the following years. Following the Marvel departure of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, Romita Sr. returned to Marvel in 1966, he brought the style of romance comics with him to his work on Spider-Man.

began to work on DC's then-popular romance comics. Back then, comics were not as defined by the superhero genre as they are today, and after working with Marvel on a brief '50s revival of Captain America, Romita Sr.

graduated from the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan in 1947 and soon entered the fields of commercial illustration and comic book art. Pe2K3ywbWXīorn in New York City in 1930, Romita Sr. Please keep your thoughts and condolences here out of respect for my family. He is a legend in the art world and it would be my honor to follow in his footsteps. I say this with a heavy heart, My father passed away peacefully in his sleep.

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