John Romita Sr. who worked for Marvel. played a significant role in the creation of many Marvel characters.
Comic book artist John Romita Sr. is dead. A 93-year-old son died of natural causes by John Romita Jr by.
In 1966 Romita Sr. jumped to draw Spiderman-comic book, which had only been published for about three years by then. He replaced the draftsman Steve Ditko by undertaking Stan Lee as a close colleague.
Romita Sr. was the co-creator of Peter Parker’s love interest, Mary Jane Watson. He designed the appearance of the character. Romita also had a hand in the design of Kingpin and Rhinoceros.
Later, Romita Sr. got a job as the artistic representative of Marvel, where he enjoyed himself for a couple of decades. He designed or co-designed such classic comic characters as Wolverine, Tuomari (The Punisher) and Luke Cage, who was the first black superhero.
of the Guardian according to Romita Sr. didn’t want to work Spider-Man later in his career.
– Believe it or not, I wasn’t hoping for a continuation. The only reason I did Spiderman, was because Stan asked me and I wanted to help him. Like a good soldier, Romita Sr. told Alter Ego in 2001.