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The Atomika: God Is Red Omnibus Edition features more than 75 pages of new art, including work by Simone Bianchi, Simon Bisley, Tim Bradstreet, Claudio Castellini, Travis Charest, Gene Colan, Glenn Fabry, Gary Gianni, David Mack, Angel Medina, Eddy Newell, Alex Nino, Lucio Parrillo, Eric Powell, John Romita Sr., Steve Rude, Arthur Suydam, and Michael[...]

I know in my shop people tend to scoff when we have nice, raw copies of books like Amazing Spider-Man #100, for sure one of the all-time great comic covers by John Romita Sr The book itself is a personal favorite; I just love that Stan Lee left the book and gave Spider-Man six arms[...]

Marvel fans will go crazy for this cover art to the 1993 superhero calendar by John Romita Sr and Joe Sinnott This is exceptionally cool to see, this kind of art can even be cooler than actual comic art Promotional materials like this don't come up for auction all the time, but Heritage Auctions gets[...]

The Amazing Spider-Man newspaper strip by Stan Lee, John Romita Sr and others will be collected in a new deluxe hardcover edition. Launched in 1977, the Spider-Man newspaper strip begins with Peter Parker's arachnid alter-ego facing off against the deadly menace of Doctor Doom! Classic Spidey villains, including Kraven the Hunter, Doctor Octopus, Mysterio, and the Kingpin,  make[...]

This year marks the 15th Anniversary of IDW Publishing, and co-founder and CEO Ted Adams has a few reflections on his youthful obsession with books,

Initially, from a couple of corroborating reports on the show floor of San Diego Comic Con yesterday… and then all over the bars last night, where no less than eight people took me aside to tell me this top secret news that only they knew… John Romita Jr, son of the legendary Marvel artist John Romita[...]

The cover of Amazing Spider-Man #121 has just sold at Heritage Auctions for $286,800. This 1973 issue by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane, with cover by John Romita Sr. is considered one of the most important comic books of the Bronze Age As the Heritage Auctions blurb says, "'This was the end of innocence for comics… it remains[...]

The Heritage auction blurb nails down the importance of this 1973 issue by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane, with cover by John Romita Sr.: "Some say the death of Gwen Stacy marked the end of the Silver Age of comics 'This was the end of innocence for comics… it remains one of the most potent[...]

The original art for the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #49 by John Romita Sr sold for $167,300 at Heritage Auctions this afternoon. The cover is from early in Romita's influential run on the title (he took over from Steve Ditko with #39 in 1966), written by Stan Lee. The piece is noteworthy both for its visual and for the particulars[...]

John Romita Sr is one of the most important artists in the history of Marvel Comics  Original art collectors prize all his work dearly, particularly his early work from Marvel's formative years   His Amazing Spider-Man artwork is the most coveted from that era, and his covers don't change hands very often — and when[...]