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Ross Andru (born Rossolav Andruskevitch, June 15, 1927 – November 9, 1993) was an American comic book artist and editor. He is best known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Flash and Metal Men. His most frequent collaborator was inker Mike Esposito, with whom he worked on projects over a span of four decades. The two founded three short-lived comic books companies: Mr. Publications (1951), MikeRoss (1953) and Klevart Enterprises (1970). Andru was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2007. A Spider-Man story drawn by Andru in 1968 was originally planned as a fill-in issue of The Amazing Spider-Man but was published in Marvel Super-Heroes #14 when regular Spider-Man artist John Romita Sr. recovered more quickly than anticipated from a wrist injury. For the black-and-white comics-magazine publisher Skywald in 1971, Andru and Esposito contributed many stories across the line, including to the horror titles Nightmare and Psycho and the Western titles Wild Western Action, The Bravados and Butch Cassidy. With writer Gary Friedrich, they created Skywald's motorcycle-riding superhero Hell-Rider. Andru and Esposito formed the publishing company Klevart Enterprises in 1970, which two years later published two issues of a humor magazine cover-titled Up Your Nose (and Out Your Ear). The name, Esposito said, came from an expression used by late-night talk-show host Johnny Carson, "May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, and out your ear." A third issue was written but never printed because of financial problems. In the early 1970s, Andru left DC for Marvel Comics. Initially he did short runs on such titles as Marvel Feature where he launched the superhero team the Defenders in issue #1 (Dec. 1971 and Marvel Team-Up, starting in March 1972, where he drew Spider-Man teaming with other Marvel characters. In 1973, he began his five-year stint as regular penciler on The Amazing Spider-Man, which at that point was Marvel's highest-selling monthly comic. Andru and writer Gerry Conway introduced the Punisher, who would become one of Marvel Comics' most popular characters. In 1976, Andru penciled the first large-scale comic book Intercompany crossover, Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, in a story written by Conway and co-published by Marvel and DC. As one historian wrote, "The tale was written by Gerry Conway and drawn by Ross Andru, both among the few [at that time] to ever have worked on both Superman and Spider-Man...The result was a defining moment in Bronze Age of Comic Books."

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Ross Andru: Amazing Spider-man #184, page 31 (Spiderman vs White Dragon, 1978)

Art Details

Artist:	Ross Andru (Penciller) Frank Giacoia (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	Permanent collection
Views	2539
Comments:	13
Added to Site:	7/2/2017

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Ross Andru: Amazing Spider-man #184, page 31 (Spiderman vs White Dragon, 1978)
Artist: Ross Andru (Penciller)
Frank Giacoia (Inker)
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Ross Andru: SUPERMAN vs SPIDER-MAN, Page 8 (first Marvel / DC crossover)

Art Details

Artist:	Ross Andru (Penciller) Dick Giordano (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	2563
Comments:	18
Added to Site:	2/29/2012

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Member Since:	November 2010

Ross Andru: SUPERMAN vs SPIDER-MAN, Page 8 (first Marvel / DC crossover)
Artist: Ross Andru (Penciller)
Dick Giordano (Inker)
2563 Views, 18 Comments

There are 2 Pieces of Art In This Gallery.    

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