an Inkpot Award in 1979 and was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2002. Romita was inducted into the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame in 2020. Personal life John Romita Sr. married childhood sweetheart Virginia Bruno in November 1952, who also worked on staff at Marvel from 1975 to 1996. They lived in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood until 1954, when they bought a house in the Queens neighborhood of Queens Village. Some years later, the family moved to Bellerose, New York, on Long Island. He and his wife have two sons, Victor and John Jr. (born August 17, 1956), who followed in his footsteps to become a noted comic-book artist himself. Bibliography DC Comics DC 100 Page Super Spectacular #5 (1971) Falling in Love #31, 35, 50, 53–55, 70, 81 (1959–1966) Girls' Love Stories #82–88, 90–99, 101, 116, 120, 138, 140, 162, 165, 170 (1961–1972) Girls' Romances #23, 62, 76, 85, 93–95, 114, 121, 129, 159–160 (1953–1971) Heart Throbs #63, 65–67, 77–86, 90, 93, 99, 101 (1959–1966) Secret Hearts #43, 60, 69–70, 78–93, 109, 152–153 (1957–1971) Young Love #39–43, 45–54 (1963–1966) Young Romance #125–128, 130–132, 171–172, 175 (1963–1971) Marvel Comics Adventures into Weird Worlds #21 (1953) All-True Crime #44 (1951) The Amazing Spider-Man #39–58, 67, 72, 82–83, 87–88, 93–95, 106–119, 132, 365, 500 Annual '96 #1 (as penciller); #89–92, 96, 120–125, 146, 151, 238, 247, 274, 400, Annual #16 (as inker only) (1966–2003) (Romita drew additional Silver Age issues as layout artist for pencilers Don Heck and Jim Mooney.) The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2, #18 (inker) (2000) The Amazing Spider-Man Special Edition (1982) The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip (1977–1980) Astonishing #7, 18, 24, 43, 57, 61 (1951–1957) The Avengers #23 (inker) (1965) Battle #14, 26, 39, 45, 49, 53, 57–59 (1952–1958) Battle Action #20, 22, 25, 27, 29 (1955–1957) Battlefront #6, 10 (1952–1953) Battle Ground #9 (1956) Black Knight #4 (1955) Captain America #114, 138–145, 148 (1969–1972) Captain America vol. 3 #50 (among other artists) (2002) Captain America Comics #76–78 (1954) Caught #2 (1956) Combat #3, 6 (1952) Commando Adventures #2 (1957) Cowboy Action #10 (1956) Crime Cases Comics #7 (1951) Crime Exposed #5 (1951) Daredevil #12–19 (1966) Daredevil vol. 2 #50, 100 (among other artists) (2003–2007) Doctor Strange vol. 2 #7 (inker) (1975) Droids #1–4 (1986) Fantastic Four #103–106, 108 (1970–1971) Frontier Western #7 (1957) Gunsmoke Western #38 (1956) The Incredible Hulk Annual #17