Information about John Romita, Sr.
| John Romita, Sr. | |
) John Romita Sr. at Comicon 2006. | |
| Born | January 24 1930 |
| Nationality | ){kind=small} American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
| Pseudonym(s) | John Romita |
Romita is the father of John Romita, Jr., also a comic-book artist.
Biography
Early life and career
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Captain America #78 (Sept. 1954). Cover art by Romita.
Romita was working at the New York City company Forbes Lithograph in 1949, earing $30 a week, when a friend from high school whom he ran into on a subway train offered him $20 a page to pencil a 10-page story for him as uncredited ghost artist. "I thought, this is ridiculous! In two pages I can make more money than I usually make all week! So I ghosted it and then kept on ghosting for him", Romita recalled.<ref name="keefe" /> The friend worked for Marvel's 1940s forerunner, Timely Comics, which helped give Romita an opportunity to meet editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee.
Romita's first known credited comic-book art is as penciler and inker on the six-page story "The Bradshaw Boys" in Western Outlaws #1 (Feb. 1951) for Marvel's 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics. He went on to draw a wide variety of horror, war, romance and other comics for Atlas. His most notable work for the company was the short-lived, of Timely's hit character Captain America, in Young Men #24-28 (Dec. 1953 - July 1954) and Captain America #76-78 (May-Sept. 1954).
He also was the primary artist for one of the first series with a Black star, "Waku, Prince of the Bantu" — created by writer Don Rico and artist Ogden Whitney in the omnibus title Jungle Tales #1 (Sept. 1954), and starring an African chieftain in Africa, with no regularly featured Caucasian characters. Romita succeeded Whitney with issue #2 (November 1954).
Spider-Man
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The Amazing Spider-Man #50. Cover art by Romita and Mike Esposito.
| I had inked an Avengers job for Stan, and I told him I just wanted to ink. I felt like I was burned out as a penciler after eight years of romance work. I didn't want to pencil any more; in fact, I couldn't work at home any more — I couldn't discipline myself to do it. He said, 'Okay,' but the first chance he had he shows me this Daredevil story somebody had started and he didn't like it, and he wanted somebody else to do it".[2] "[He] showed me Dick Ayers' splash page for a Daredevil [and] asked me, 'What would you do with this page?' I showed him on a tracing paper what I would do, and then he asked me to do a drawing of Daredevil the way I would do it. I did a big drawing of Daredevil ... just a big, tracing-paper drawing of Daredevil swinging. And Stan loved it.[3] |
Romita began a brief stint on Daredevil beginning with issue #12, initially penciling over Jack Kirby's dynamic layouts as a means of learning Marvel's storytelling house style. It proved to be a stepping-stone for his famed, years-long pencilling run on The Amazing Spider-Man. "What Stan Lee wanted was for me to do a two-part Daredevil story [#16-17, May-June 1966] with Spider-Man as a guest star, to see how I handled the character".<ref name="keefe" />
Coming to The Amazing Spider-Man as successor of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, Romita initially attempted to mimic Ditko's style, but brought his own clean, soap operatic style of illustration to the book, and made the character his own.
Marvel Comics art director
When editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee assumed the position of publisher, he promoted Romita to the latter position. In that capacity, Romita played a major role in defining the look of Marvel Comics and in designing new characters. Among the characters he helped design are the Punisher, Wolverine, and Brother Voodoo.Later career
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TV Guide (April 17-May 3, 2002): Cover by John Romita Sr.
He both penciled and inked the 10-page backup story "The Kiss — a flashback in which Peter Parker (Spider-Man) and his girlfriend Gwen Stacy share their first kiss — in Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man #1 (Jan. 1999). He also drew an alternate-universe version of the Spider-Man characters in the one-shot Spidey: A Universe X Special (2001), and penciled the final four pages of the 38-page story in the milestone The Amazing Spider-Man #500 (Dec. 2003). Romita also drew one of four covers to the April 27 - May 3, 2002 issue of TV Guide.[4]
Additionally, Romita contributed to multi-artist jams in commemorative issues. He did a panel in Captain America vol. 3, #50 (Feb. 2002), starring the first Marvel superhero he'd drawn; a portion of Iron Man vol. 3, #40 (May 2001), although the hero was not one of the artist's signature characters; a panel for Daredevil vol. 2, #50 (Oct. 2003); and a few pages featuring Karen Page in Daredevil vol. 2, #100 (Oct. 2007), done in the style of the romance comics he had drawn decades earlier. Romita both penciled and inked the cover of Daredevil vol. 2, #94 (Feb. 2007) in that that same romance-comics style.
In the mid-2000s, Romita sat on the board of directors of the charity A Commitment To Our Roots.
Footnotes
1. ^ Keefe Studios: John Romita interview (late 1980s; exact date n.a.)
2. ^ Comic Book Artist #6 (Fall 1999): Interview with Romita
3. ^ Alter Ego #9 (July 2001): Interview with Romita, conducted by former Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas
4. ^ First Look at Spider-Man TV Guide Covers, by Jonah Weiland, April 6, 2002, Comic Book Resources
2. ^ Comic Book Artist #6 (Fall 1999): Interview with Romita
3. ^ Alter Ego #9 (July 2001): Interview with Romita, conducted by former Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas
4. ^ First Look at Spider-Man TV Guide Covers, by Jonah Weiland, April 6, 2002, Comic Book Resources
References
.| Preceded by Bob Powell/Wally Wood | Daredevil artist 1965–1966 | Succeeded by Gene Colan |
| Preceded by Jack Kirby | Captain America artist 1966–1966 | Succeeded by Jack Kirby |
| Preceded by Steve Ditko | Amazing Spider-Man artist 1966–1970 | Succeeded by Gil Kane |
| Preceded by Jack Kirby | Fantastic Four artist 1970–1971 | Succeeded by John Buscema |
| Preceded by Gene Colan | Captain America artist 1971–1971 | Succeeded by Sal Buscema |
| Preceded by Gil Kane | Amazing Spider-Man artist 1972–1973 | Succeeded by Ross Andru |
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