#john romita senior

[pulpsandcomics2]

John Romita

#john romita senior #red sonja

[curtvilescomic]

Ghost Rider by Gerardo Zaffino in absolutely awesome homage to amazing Spider-Man #50 John Romita

#comics #Ghost Rider #Spider-Man #Gerardo Zaffino #Homage #john romita senior #Spider-Man no more

[makeminebronze]

RIP to the Master.

#marvel comics #john romita senior

[jeffpennington]

Space Ghost: Host No More cover art!

Just a fun fan comic I'm messing around with. This is a parody of the famous "Spider-Man No More!" John Romita Sr. interior art

#space ghost coast to coast #space ghost #sgc2c #cartoon planet #the brak show #jellystone #john romita senior #spider man #cartoon network #adult swim #comic book #comix #comic covers

[popping-your-culture]

#spider man #mary jane watson #Archie #archie comics #marvel comics #john romita senior #marvel #amazing spider man #goddess #legs and heels #legs for miles #smoke show #legs for days #comic book crush

[nevenkebla]

Portada de Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 #100 (1971) por John Romita y Frank Giacoia.

#cómics #portada de cómic #comic book cover art #marvel comics #amazing spider man #spider man #spiderman #john romita senior #frank giacoia

[p-c-ba-dcforever]

Wonder Woman Day pt 2

#dc comics #wonder woman #dick giordano #john romita senior #jim lee #frank cho #darwyn cooke #shane glines #chris sprouse #joe devito #julie bell

[funnypages]

#john romita senior #marvel #mary jane watson #wolverine #x-men

[mrsspidermanmaryjanewatsonparker]

Rest in Peace John Romita Senior

#mary jane watson parker #mary jane watson #mj watson #john romita sr #john romita senior

[evilhorse]

Captain America #193

#captain america #steve rogers #the falcon #falcon #sam wilson #riot #burning #fire #madbomb #jack kirby #john romita senior #marvel comics #comics #70s comics #bronze age comics

[hellzyeahthewebwieldingavenger]

Rest in Peace John Romita Senior

And thus passes the third of the three men who laid the foundation for Spider-Man.

A lot of people, rightly, praise Ditko's work but I think it is important to bear in mind how vital Romita Senior was to the mythology of Spider-Man, and his pop cultural success.

Spider-Man went far more mainstream when Romita Senior began working on the title, in part because his style was more conventionally attractive. This is to not frame him as lesser than Ditko, they were both masters of their respective approaches, those approaches were just very different.

Ditko was the only man who could have co-created Spider-Man with Stan Lee, but Romita Sr. was the only man who could have taken Spider-Man to the next step of his place in pop culture and also the character's personal development.

This is the man who not only co-created staples of Spider-Man's mythology like Joe Robertson, the Rhino, the Shocker, or the friggin Kingpin and the Punisher, but who's artwork defined the looks of Peter Parker, Spider-Man, J. Jonah Jameson, the Green Goblin, Norman and Harry Osborn, Gwen Stacy and essentially the world of Spider-Man from the mid-1960s-the late 1980s.

This isn't even touching upon the fact that his rendition of Mary Jane (a character he only technically didn't co-create, but might as well have) is the definitive take on the character Every rendition since 1966 has been defined by how similar or how different it is to his take upon her.

So influential was his era on Spider-Man that it became the default setting status quo for virtually every adaptation until the 2000s, and even then aspects of his work were liberally incorporated into what anyone else was doing.

His rendition of Spider-Man and his world was so iconic that Marvel essentially enshrined that everyone had to try and adhere to how he drew those characters throughout the 1970s and for most of the 1980s. Indeed, until arguably the 1980s, but definitely the 1990s, whenever you saw Spider-Man merchandise it was always Romita Senior's rendition.

Not to mention his MASSIVE body of work in the Spider-Man newspapers and critical contributions to other Marvel characters, Daredevil perhaps being the most notable example.

Whilst Kirby was the King of comics, Ditko was the Master of his style and niche in the medium, Romita Senior is the undisputed GOD of American Romance comics.

And where Spider-Man is concerned, if Lee and Ditko are Peter's father's then Romita Senior is undeniably his Godfather.

Rest in Peace legend.

#John Romita Senior #Spider-Man #Daredevil #Punisher #Kingpin #mary jane watson #Mary Jane Watson Parker

[pulpsandcomics2]

The Spectacular Spider-Man #1 - Treasury Edition (1974) by John Romita Sr

#marvel comics #spider man #john romita senior

[avengerscompound]

Steve Rogers

Captain America Comics (1941) #77

#marvel #avengers #marveledit #comicedit #steverogersedit #captainamericaedit #steve rogers #captain america #captain america comics (1941) #616 #john romita senior #marvel comics #avengerscompoundedit

[makeminebronze]

60 Years of the Original X-Men pt 2

#marvel comics #the x men #jack kirby #john byrne #ed mcguiness #mike parobeck #bruce timm #j. scott campbell #jim lee #john cassaday #john romita senior

[daredevil-artwork]

Daredevil by John Romita Sr. (& signed by Stan Lee)

#john romita sr #John Romita sr. #john romita senior #matt murdock #daredevil #marvel #art #artwork #marvel comics #marvel universe #stan Lee #the devil of hell's kitchen #marvel superheroes #the man without fear

[all-action-all-picture]

Rampage No. 15. The Defenders cover by Gil Kane and John Romita Sr (originally used on The Defenders No. 16, 1974).

#25jan #1978 #john romita #john romita senior #gil kane #marvel #marvel uk #the defenders