The late John Victor Romita Sr. was well-known as an American comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics’ The Amazing Spider-Man and co-creating characters including Mary Jane Watson, the Punisher, Wolverine, and Luke Cage.
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Romita has died at the age of 93. He died of natural causes in his sleep. His son, John Romita Jr, also a successful graphic novelist, confirmed the death in a Twitter post on Tuesday night.
“I say this with a heavy heart,” Romita Jr wrote. “My father … is a legend in the art world and it would be my honor to follow in his footsteps. Please keep your thoughts and condolences here out of respect for my family. “He was the greatest man I ever met.”
Romita was born in 1930 in Brooklyn to a family of five children, Romita Sr found early success in the comics industry. Two years after graduating from Manhattan’s School of Industrial Art, he began contributing to the series Famous Funnies, at age 19.
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