Peter Parker/Spider-Man Commission - Jim Mooney

Peter Parker/Spider-Man commission by the great Jim Mooney!

11" x 17" - On loan from the Rauseo Galleria of Milan, Italy

Excerpt from the Jim Mooney Wikipedia entry:

Marvel editor Stan Lee had Jim Mooney work with The Amazing Spider-Man penciler John Romita. He would go on to ink a classic run of Amazing Spider-Man (#65, 67-88; Oct. 1968, Dec. 1968 - Sept. 1970), which he recalled as "finalising it over John’s layouts". Mooney, who combined a slick, polished line with a down-to-earth, Everyman feel, also embellished John Buscema's pencils on many issues of The Mighty Thor.

As a penciler, Mooney did several issues of Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man, as well as Spider-Man stories in Marvel Team-Up, and he both penciled and inked issues of writer Steve Gerber's Man-Thing and the entire 10-issue run of Gerber's cult-hit Omega the Unknown, among many other titles.
Mooney also worked on Marvel-related coloring books, for the child-oriented Spidey Super Stories, and for a Spider-Man feature in a children's-magazine spin-off of the PBS educational series The Electric Company, which included segments featuring Spider-Man.

In 1975, Mooney, wanting to move to Florida, negotiated a 10-year contract with Marvel to supply artwork from there. "It was a good deal. The money wasn't too great, but I was paid every couple of weeks, I had insurance, and I had a lot of security that most freelancers never had".

Jim Mooney passed away in 2008.