Collection: John Romita Jr. Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

John Romita Jr., is an American comics artist. Born August 17, 1956, he is the son of Legendary Comic Book artist John Romita Sr, who was one of the signature Spider-Man artists since the 1960's. Best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics, John Romita Jr.'s first contribution to Marvel Comics was in November, 1969, at the age of 13 with the creation of the Prowler in The Amazing Spider-Man #78. His career began in earnest in the 1970's at Marvel UK, doing sketches for covers of reprints. John Romita Jr.'s American debut was with a six-page story entitled "Chaos at the Coffee Bean!" in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #11 in 1977.

John Romita Jr took on his first regular assignment the following year with Iron Man #113, teaming with writer David Michelinie and writer and inker Bob Layton for a groundbreaking story line that detailed Tony Stark's struggles with alcoholism.Since then he has worked on many other comic book series including Thor, Fantastic Four, Daredevil and X-Men. From that point on, Romita Jr. became one of the company's go-to talents. He launched Dazzler's solo book; turned out scattered issues of Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel Team-Up, and What If?; did a second stint on Iron Man; worked on Marvel Super Hero Contest Of Champions (Marvel's first-ever limited series); was the regular artist on Amazing Spider-Man from 1980 to 1983; took over as Uncanny X-Men's lead penciller from 1983 to 1986; and helped establish the ambitious New Universe as artist on the Star Brand series. Through this time he began to develop a more personal technique, shedding many of the traits that had stamped him as one of the primary practitioners of Marvel's "house style", and honing a thin-lined approach that melded dynamic layouts with sparsely detailed, carefully defined figures.

John Romita Jr began a trendsetting two-year run on Daredevil in 1988 with writer Ann Nocenti, telling stories that ranged from street-level narrative to social commentary to supernatural saga, taking Matt Murdock from Hell's Kitchen to the gates of Hell itself.By the time the '90's arrived, he seemed to be everywhere. He hopped back onto Iron Man for a third go-round, pencilled Cable's solo debut (the two-issue Blood And Metal miniseries), launched a new Punisher title (Punisher War Zone), returned to Uncanny X-Men for a short time, delivered a pair of prestige-format crossover specials (Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts Of Darkness, and the Marvel/DC joint production Punisher/Batman: Deadly Knights), as well as producing art for trading cards and other special projects.

John Romita Jr. joined forces with Frank Miller in 1998 for the hugely influential five issue Daredevil: Man Without Fear limited series, which retold and expanded the story of the character's formative years. And his style continued to evolve throughout, growing ever-more powerful and direct, his characters and settings imbued with a weight and solidity that few artists could match, pushing the boundaries of every page. He delineated futuristic technology with the same authenticity and attention to detail that he used to portray the streets of New York, depicting Kingpin as a towering force of nature, and Cable as a mountainous hybrid of flesh and cybernetics, Wolverine as a tightly-coiled ball of animal fury, Elektra as a believably battle-honed warrior.Throughout the rest of the '90's and 2000's, John Romita Jr. solidified his status as Marvel's #1 superstar.

John Romita Jr. re-established himself as one of the premier Spider-Man artists, with extended turns on both Peter Parker: Spider-Man and the flagship Amazing Spider-Man title. He drew the first six issues of 2005's best-selling Black Panther series, and handled defining runs on the Thor and Incredible Hulk titles. He collaborated with Neil Gaiman on a seven-issue Eternals series, joined with Mark Millar for a year's worth of Wolverine, pencilled the World War Hulk event, and spearheaded relaunches of The Avengers and Captain America.

John Romita Jr. also delved into creator-owned work, first with 2004's The Gray Area from Image Comics, then with the 2008 release of his and Mark Millar's Kick-Ass, which went on to spawn a trio of follow-up series and two well-received feature films.In 2014, Romita broke new ground, stepping away from his lifelong creative home of Marvel Comics to embark on a number of new projects for DC, including a year-long Superman story line, a number of covers, a one-shot tie-in to Dark Knight III, and the All-Star Batman title with writer Scott Snyder. The Artwork of John Romita Jr. is currently credited in 1,389 separate Comic Book issues.