{"id":20346,"date":"2023-06-14T07:34:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20346"},"modified":"2023-06-14T07:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:34:25","slug":"loss-of-a-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/loss-of-a-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss Of A Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Legendary Marvel artist John Romita passed away yesterday at the age of 93, according to his son, fellow artist John Romita Jr.\u00a0 Romita defined the look of Spider-Man for a generation and was Art Director for Marvel from 1973 through the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

Romita’s career began in the late 1940s at what was then known as Timely Comics.\u00a0 Following a stint in the Army, Romita returned to what was then known as Atlas Comics, helping to relaunch Captain America in 1953.\u00a0 After a short stint at DC working on romance comics, Romita returned to the newly christened Marvel Comics, where, following a short stint on Daredevil, he took over the art duties on Amazing Spider-Man<\/em> following the departure of creator Steve Ditko in 1966.\u00a0 Along with his tweaks to the design of Spider-Man and Peter Parker, Romita helped create iconic characters like\u00a0Mary Jane Watson, Rhino, Kingpin, Shocker, and more.<\/p>\n

As Art Director, Romita also designed a number of characters on titles that he wasn’t working on, including Wolverine and Punisher.\u00a0 He was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2002.<\/p>\n

I have at least 38 comics drawn by John Romita in my collection, starting with issue #44 of Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>, cover dated January 1966, and ending with issue #132, from May of 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legendary Marvel artist John Romita passed away yesterday at the age of 93, according to his son, fellow artist John Romita Jr.\u00a0 Romita defined the look of Spider-Man for a generation and was Art Director for Marvel from 1973 through the early 2000s. Romita’s career began in the late 1940s at what was then known […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10047],"tags":[2869,10675,1624,2527,2259,10672,10673,1515,6605,520,8081,10674,10676,345],"class_list":["post-20346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-atlas-comics","tag-captain-america","tag-daredevil","tag-dc","tag-john-romita","tag-john-romita-jr","tag-marvel","tag-punisher","tag-spider-man","tag-steve-ditko","tag-timely-comics","tag-will-eisner-hall-of-fame","tag-wolverine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20348,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions\/20348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}