Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man

Marie Anita Severin was born in East Rockaway, New York on August 21, 1929. She briefly attended the Pratt Institute. She became a comic book artist. She started in the industry in 1949 as a colorist for EC Comics. Most of her career was spent at Marvel, where she worked full-time from the 1960s until the late 1990s. She drew covers for Marvel titles like Daredevil, Iron Man, Captain America and often amended, retouched, or updated other artists' work. Her most notable superhero work were runs of Doctor Strange, The Incredible Hulk, and The Sub-Mariner. She also designed the first Spider-Woman. She was a skilled humorist and in the late 1960s she drew many stories for Not Brand Echh. She died of a stroke on August 29, 2018 at the age of 89.

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