The result is a run that spanned from Amazing Spider-Man issues 224 through 252 and 2 annuals, as Stern created stories widely regarded as some of the greatest Spider-Man comics ever made and introduced a villain that would plague his hero for decades.
Stern would go on to write 17 issues of Spectacular and his success on the second string title would lead to Spider-Man Editor Tom DeFalco calling him up to the big leagues. In the meantime, Marvel had launched “Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man” – the hero’s second ever ongoing title – to meet an increasingly insatiable reader appetite for the character.Īnd when the time came for a new writer on Spectacular, enter Stern, who had left his editor position to be a full-time freelance writer. Meanwhile, the Wall-Crawler had entered one of his first fallow periods in Denny O’Neil’s time on Amazing Spider-Man, which simply never reached the heights anyone expected from the superstar writer. Under the pen of Roger Stern from 1980 through 1984, Spider-Man met some of his greatest physical and emotional challenges while his author left behind a legacy of unfinished business.īy the late ‘70s, Roger Stern had broken into Marvel Comics as an editor and part-time writer. What’s a great run on Spider-Man without adversity, for both its hero and its creator?
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