BILL ROSEMANNAge: 42.Hometown: Cherry Hill, N.J.Education: Notre Dame High School, University of Notre Dame.Vocation: Marvel Comics, editor.
On Friday nights before a football game at Notre Dame High School, Bill Rosemann would sneak away from the campus to visit the comic-book shop on Brainerd Road.
“Friday was new-comics day,” he said. “I would sneak off during that time between school and getting dressed out and then sit in my locker reading a comic book before the game. I was always known as ‘The Comic Book Guy.'”
Thirty years later, the phrase still fits him. Today, Rosemann is an editor with Marvel Comics, the only vocation he has ever imagined himself doing.
As a toddler, Rosemann said, he remembers seeing a cardboard cutout of Superman while at a mall with his mother. In first grade, he bought a collection of six issues of “The Amazing Spider-Man” at a book fair.