The John Romita Sr. 2001 Shoot Interview by David Armstrong

David Armstrong interviewed Silver & Bronze Age great, John Romita Sr. in 2001 on set at San Diego Comic Con about his entry into comic books with Les Zakarin, first meeting Stan Lee at Timely, his suspense science fiction stories like IT!, working for Famous Funnies, his relationship with Stan Lee in the 1950s, and again in the 1960s, getting inking advice from Joe Maneely, why he joined DC Comics to work on Romance Comics with Zena Brody and Robert Kanigher, discussing Alex Toth, the editorial culture at DC compared to Marvel, Jack Kirby, Martin Goodman, terrible distribution through Independent News, and DC Comics' achilles heel.

Interview conducted, recorded and copyrighted to David Armstrong.
Remastered, edited, timestamped and postproduction by Alex Grand.

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📜 Chapters
00:00 Starting drawing
00:42 First paid professional job
03:45 Getting into comics | Les Zakarin, Stan Lee
05:15 You weren't Zakarin? | Into the army
06:48 Learning to Ink | IT!
07:47 First job for Famous Funnies | Steve Douglas
08:40 Stan Lee
09:19 Did Stan Lee want to stay in comics?
11:09 Joe Maneely's drawing technique
14:26 Meeting Joe Maneely
15:42 Did Stan Lee ever talk about Joe Maneely?
16:01 Stan gave me raises at Timely's peak
17:52 Pay reduced $44 a page to $24 a page
18:30 Worked at DC Comics for $38 a page
19:03 Working for Zena Brody
19:45 Meeting other artists, Alex Toth
20:17 Romance Comics artists were fired
21:12 DC Editors were cutthroat corporate
21:54 No one at DC got credit
22:48 Working for Kanigher
24:52 Kanigher's motivations
26:16 Public didn't realize that comics are a craft
27:18 DC had various editors, Marvel had one editor
29:02 Romance Comics improved range
30:25 Art first and script second | Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
36:30 Marvel was David, DC was goliath.
39:48 At Marvel, the bullpen was an open book
40:38 Terrible distribution through Independent News
41:43 1960s culture contributed to Marvel's success?
43:19 DC old publishers were very narrow-minded
43:28 Martin Goodman | Spectacular Spider-Man b/w magazine
45:07 Did comics enrich you?
48:36 Outro

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