John Romita Sr.
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Nov 3, 2026
OliviaHOST
So his real name is Herman Schultz.
OliviaHOST
He is introduced in Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. Spider-Man in 1966.
OliviaHOST
And he wears...
OliviaHOST
This is...
XanderGUEST
And it was the first time that the actual artists that I had drawn on top of their covers reposted it and shared love for it.
XanderGUEST
Where before, you know, I was mainly drawing on Jack Kirby, Neil Adams, John Romita.
XanderGUEST
I was doing all these old school books.
XanderGUEST
And these are my legends.
Scott KoblishGUEST
I went into Marvel.
Scott KoblishGUEST
I met John Romita Sr. at a small convention in my hometown in New Jersey.
Scott KoblishGUEST
And I had been putting together a portfolio, but I hadn't gotten very far.
Scott KoblishGUEST
And I had just graduated from college.
Dave BuesingHOST
A lot of those comics are really fun.
Dave BuesingHOST
It's a pretty exciting time in culture and in comics where they're building this thing, there's great stuff happening, there's Jack Kirby and Ditko and John Romita and all these people doing really great work.
Dave BuesingHOST
Right.
Dave BuesingHOST
And then you get to late 60s, early 70s and Kirby leaves and Stanley the Manly is kind of moving into a different phase.
JamieHOST
Oh yeah.
JamieHOST
I get the same vibe from this era of Nightwing that I do from like John Romita's senior era Spider-Man, where the posing is doing so much of the heavy lifting.
RyanHOST
Yeah, and he looks like a, what is it, acrobatist? Like, is that the term? Acrobat.
RyanHOST
An acrobatist.
David PriceHOST
Like there are some names where they're just, they're, they're good at what they do.
David PriceHOST
They just weren't as, um, They weren't as just in your face or as dynamic as Keith Pollard or John Romita Sr. or anybody of that ilk.
David PriceHOST
So anybody I didn't necessarily care for, it was very fleeting.
David PriceHOST
But there are a couple.
Ray KryssingGUEST
There's a couple other ones that are argumentative, but that one, to me, stands out.
RonaldHOST
So you were one of the Romita Raiders.
RonaldHOST
Tell the fans a little about the Raiders and how you ended up being one.
Ray KryssingGUEST
This is one of those things that made me laugh because I was asking my wife because we were dating at the time.
Ray KryssingGUEST
I don't know how I got into...
Ray KryssingGUEST
I think I vaguely remember Steve Geiger... was the art director at the time.
Ray KryssingGUEST
He worked under John Romita, Sr.
Ray KryssingGUEST
And I think I vaguely remember trying to get work in the comics.
Tom RacineGUEST
so weird.
Tom RacineGUEST
I remember going, really? There's not a John somewhere? But that's why in the book, I came up with a brilliant idea, I think, of J is for J-A-R, Tolkien.
Tom RacineGUEST
And so I did put that in the other two books.
Tom RacineGUEST
So Q is for the queen of crime, Agatha Christie, and S is for Shakespeare because it's kind of fun, I think, to put them in the book.
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Tom RacineGUEST
because you have your voice.
Tom RacineGUEST
And I, over the years, came to appreciate that more and more.
Tom RacineGUEST
I think for a long time, I looked down on my own art because I was like, well, I'm not as good as, I'm not Frank Frazetta, I'm not John Romita, and I'm not Charles Schultz.
Tom RacineGUEST
So where am I in this? I can't be any of those guys.
Ray KryssingGUEST
I think I vaguely remember Steve Geiger... was the art director at the time.
Ray KryssingGUEST
He worked under John Romita, Sr.
Ray KryssingGUEST
And I think I vaguely remember trying to get work in the comics.
Ray KryssingGUEST
And...
Nick SmithHOST
I think it was mostly the title of it.
Nick SmithHOST
And it also – Stan Lee replaced Storenko's cover with a cover that was created by John Romita Sr., So that is something that really annoyed Stranko, and he actually dropped the book after just this one story.
Nick SmithHOST
Like I got the impression this was going to be kind of his thing, and then he left Marvel because of Stan Lee's involvement in this, and Stan Lee poked his finger in, which is a real shame because, I mean, Stranko's art is just incredible.
Nick SmithHOST
He's so inventive.
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