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Bedrich Batka was born on 21 August 1922 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for Sign of the Cancer (1967), Ctyri v kruhu (1968) and 105 % alibi (1959). He died on 6 June 1994 in Floral Park, New York, USA.- Writer
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John Victor Romita Sr. was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating characters including Mary Jane Watson, the Punisher, and Wolverine. Romita was the father of John Romita Jr., also a comic book artist, and the husband of Virginia Romita, for many years Marvel's traffic manager.
His first comics work was in 1949 as a ghost artist for Timely Comics, the precursor to Marvel, through which Romita met editor-in-chief Stan Lee. In 1951, Romita began drawing horror, war, and romance comics for Atlas Comics (previously Timely), and also drew his first superhero work, a 1950s revival of Captain America. He began working exclusively for DC Comics from 1958-1965 and was the artist for many of their romance comics. During these years, Romita further developed his ability to draw beautiful women, which he later became well-known for.
Romita joined Marvel in 1965, initially drawing Daredevil comics. In 1966, Spider-Man artist and co-creator Steve Ditko left Marvel, and Romita was chosen by writer Lee as the new artist for Amazing Spider-Man. Within a year of Romita becoming the Spider-Man artist, The Amazing Spider-Man rose from Marvel's second-best-selling title to the company's top-seller. Romita brought a new romance style to Spider-Man comics that soon became the new house style for the character. In June 1973, Romita was promoted to Marvel's art director and heavily influenced the look of Marvel comics throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002- Additional Crew
Already a seasoned announcer at 26, Bill Wolff began his career in American broadcasting at the age of 15 at WRKC in Cincinnati, a CBS affiliate.
Following his Navy service in World War Two, Bill Wolff began his television free lance work with WLW-T in Cincinnatit, WLW-T in Dayton and WLW-C in Columbus. At WLW-T he worked on a television show called "Live It Again", which he deemed his most difficult announcing assignment, as it involved his "memorizing over 15 minutes of Dates, Names and Places" for each half-hour show. Also featured on the show were the McGuire Sisters on the Arthur Godfrey Programs.
Wolff's deep, authoritative voice made him a natural as a newscaster with Paramount-Movietone News on WCPO-TV Cincinnati. In 1950, Bill Wolff was offered work at Station WHFC in Chicago, where he handled a variety of announcing and broadcasting assignments. Bill was added to the WBBM staff in April of 1953 as a summer relief, but proved to be too good to lose and quickly became a regular staff announcer.
At WBBM, Bill Wolff hosted the Saturday afternoon Show " Music, Inc." with his engaging on-the-air personality and for his choices in poplar music. This made his radio show an unusually smooth and sophisticated music program. Bill has a WBBM newscast every Sunday night and a Saturday evening sports review. Bill also hosted the WBBM "Music for You", the CBS Network "Chicagoans" and the musical broadcasts from Melody Mill, Argon and Truanon, renowned Chicago ballrooms.
In 1960, Bill Wolff moved to New York City and began his career with National Broadcasting Company (NBC).