} Werner Roth (January 27, 1921 – June 1973) was an American

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artist, perhaps best known for immediately succeeding

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' ''

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''. 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 hen-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 Lorna the Jungle Girl, initially called Lorna the Jungle Queen, is a comic book jungle girl protagonist created by writer Don Rico and artist Werner Roth (comics), Werner Roth. She debuted in ''Lorna the Jungle Queen'' #1 (July 1953), published by ...

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

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. 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 "

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" 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

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for Marvel, and penciled issues of ''

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'' for DC Comics.

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Werner Roth on marvel.com
1921 births 1973 deaths American comics artists Marvel Comics people {{US-comics-artist-stub