John Romita, Jr. is the co-creator of several notable Spider-Man stories in the 1960s and 1970s. He began his career at Marvel UK, doing sketches for covers of reprints: his debut was with a six pages story in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #4.
Romita’s early popularity began in 1976 working on Iron Man with writer David Michelinie and artist Bob Layton. In the early-1980s, he had his first regular run on the Amazing Spider-Man series, co-creating the character Hobgoblin. From 1983 to 1986 he had a run on Uncanny X-Men with author Chris Claremont.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Romita enjoyed an acclaimed stint on Daredevil and 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 crossover.
In the 2000s, Romita again came to prominence for his second run illustrating The Amazing Spider-Man for writer J. Michael Straczynski. He drew Marvel’s Wolverine with author Mark Millar as part of the character’s 30th anniversary celebration. In 2022 he once again returned to the Amazing Spider-Man title.