John Victor Romita was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating characters including Mary Jane Watson, the Punisher, Kingpin, Wolverine, and Luke Cage. Romita was the father of John Romita Jr., also a comic book artist, and the husband of Virginia Romita, who was for many years Marvel's traffic manager.
See also: 1950s in comics, other events of the 1960s, 1970s in comics and the list of years in comics
Notable events of 1961 in comics.
Notable events of 1962 in comics. Starting January, most companies raise their comics from 10 to 12 cents.
Notable events of 1963 in comics.
Notable events of 1965 in comics.
Richard Bache Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10-year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s.
Notable events of 1951 in comics.
Notable events of 1952 in comics.
Notable events of 1984 in comics.
Notable events of 1968 in comics.
Notable events of 1977 in comics.
Notable events of 1982 in comics.
Notable events of 1970 in comics.
Notable events of 1974 in comics.
Notable events of 1975 in comics.
Marvel Fireside Books were a series of full-color trade paperbacks featuring Marvel Comics stories and characters co-published by Marvel and the Simon & Schuster division Fireside Books from 1974 to 1979. The first book, 1974's Origins of Marvel Comics, was very successful, and inspired a series of annual sequels.
Notable events of 1966 in comics.
Notable events of 1969 in comics.
Notable events of 1967 in comics.
