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Jan 27, 1921 Died on 01 Jun 1973 (aged 52)
American comic artist
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- Werner Roth (January 27, 1921 – June 1973) was an American comic book artist, perhaps best known for immediately succeeding Jack Kirby on Marvel Comics' The X-Men. Roth's work began appearing in Marvel Comics, then known as Atlas Comics, in 1953.
- Atlas editor Stan Lee has described being impressed with Roth's portfolio, particularly his drawings of women, "So I took his samples to show [then-publisher] Martin Goodman.
- I suggested we should use Werner, even create a comic for him.
- Which we did, and that was how Lorna, the Jungle Girl was born." Roth drew the first dozen issues of Lorna.
- He drew a number of other features for Atlas, including most of the stories of the Apache Kid.
- He later drew romance stories for DC Comics. Roth returned to Marvel to work on the X-Men in 1966, initially using the pseudonym Jay Gavin, taken from the names of his two sons, to conceal his Marvel work from his editors at DC.
- His true name was revealed in the "Bullpen Bulletins" page of Fantastic Four #54.
- X-Men series writer Roy Thomas later commented that Roth, though a talented artist, was a poor fit for the X-Men, being more oriented towards character interactions and relationships than action.Roth later drew more Western comics for Marvel, and penciled issues of Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane for DC Comics.
