John Romita, Sr. (better known as simply John Romita) is a comic book artist best known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel Comics in the 1960s. He came to the book as a replacement for Steve Ditko, bringing his clean, romantic style of illustration into the book.
His son is the comic book artist John Romita, Jr., with whom he collaborated in the 500th anniversary issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, drawing the last few pages of the issue.
JohnRomita graduated from the School of Industrial Art in 1947.
Romita was working at New York City company called Forbes Lithograph in 1949, earing $30 a week, when a friend from art 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.
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.
Romita later collaborated with Frank Miller on a Daredevil origin story entitled Man Without Fear, considered to be a companion of sorts to Miller's Batman: Year One tale.
Romita worked on a host of Marvel titles during the 1990s, including The Punisher War Zone, the Cable mini-series, The Mighty Thor, a return to Iron Man for the second Armor War written by John Byrne, and the Punisher/Batman cross-over.
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