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Bellerose artist created X-Men's Wolverine

He may be best known as the Silver Age artist who helped Spider-Man swing to new heights after co-creator Steve Ditko left, but Bellerose resident John Romita Sr. is himself co-creator of Wolverine, the Punisher and a raft of other Marvel Comics characters.

In 1974, "Incredible Hulk" writer Len Wein approached Marvel art director Romita with "a new character called Wolverine. That was all...

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