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John Romita Sr.

1930 - 2023

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John Victor Romita (; January 24, 1930 – June 12, 2023) was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating characters including Mary Jane Watson, the Punisher, Kingpin, Wolverine, and Luke Cage. Romita was the father of John Romita Jr., also a comic book artist, and the husband of Virginia Romita, who was for many years Marvel's traffic manager. His first comics work was in 1949 as a ghost artist for Timely Comics, the precursor to Marvel, through which Romita met editor-in-chief Stan Lee. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Romita Sr. has received more than 826,480 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Romita Sr. is the 102nd most popular comic artist (up from 105th in 2019), the 5,718th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,428th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, John Romita Sr. ranks 102 out of 174Before him are Willy Vandersteen, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Hal Foster, Jacques Martin, Greg, and Roy Thomas. After him are Hajime Isayama, Tsukasa Hojo, Claire Bretécher, Jean Tabary, Nobuhiro Watsuki, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, John Romita Sr. ranks 327Before him are Jānis Krūmiņš, Herbert Erhardt, Roger Vonlanthen, Henri Coppens, Malcolm Fraser, and Ivan Kolev. After him are Odetta, Horst Bienek, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Marni Nixon, Arsenio Iglesias, and Jan P. Syse. Among people deceased in 2023, John Romita Sr. ranks 232Before him are Menahem Pressler, Ion Druță, Sherif Ismail, Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Raoul Servais, and Theodoros Pangalos. After him are Aracy Balabanian, Arsenio Iglesias, Klaus Teuber, Mikio Sato, Charles Simic, and Barry Newman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Romita Sr. ranks 5,718 out of 18,182Before him are Freddie Prinze Jr. (1976), Mary Wickes (1910), Hart Crane (1899), Jessica Harper (1949), Mykelti Williamson (1960), and Irwin Allen (1916). After him are Frankie Laine (1913), Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), Bob Bondurant (1933), Stephen F. Austin (1793), Jennifer Carpenter (1979), and Phyllis Diller (1917).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, John Romita Sr. ranks 24Before him are Robert Crumb (1943), Al Taliaferro (1905), Lee Falk (1911), Joe Simon (1913), Jim Davis (1945), and Roy Thomas (1940). After him are Floyd Gottfredson (1905), Richard Corben (1940), Alex Raymond (1909), Larry Lieber (1931), John Buscema (1927), and George Herriman (1880).