Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway and Len Wein and Archie Goodwin and Marv Wolfman - everyone really - added their own spins to the mix, and lord knows they were all much more experienced writers than I was. You don’t get to write Spider-Man unless Marvel thinks you’re qualified. “Not that any of the talented writers who succeeded Stan and preceded me were doing it wrong - far from it. “Beyond that, I wanted to write the sort of stories that had attracted me to Spider-Man when I was a teenager, the sort that Stan Lee had told with Steve Ditko and with John Romita Sr. I saw my job as trying to write the best Spider-Man stories I could, to do it every month, and to do it well enough that readers would want to pick up the next issue. Stern, who still writes the occasional Webslinger tale every now and then, recently recalled that when he took over the flagship series, his goal was “first, to do no harm. His run during the 1980s was overshadowed by the subsequent artistic renaissance the character experienced under Todd McFarlane’s pencils but that slight is finally being corrected.Ĭoming in at a whopping 1296 pages is Spider-Man by Roger Stern Omnibus and while that sounds pretty spiffy, it’s even better when you realize the artists who collaborated with him on those memorable stories: John Romita, Jr., Marie Severin, Jim Mooney, Ron Frenz, Mike Zeck, John Byrne, Steve Leialoha, Rick Leonardi, Denys Cowan, Luke McDonnell, Ed Hannigan, Al Milgrom, and Bob Hall.

A while back, Comic Book Resources identified the top 10 Spidey writers and coming in at #3, after Stan Lee and Steve Ditko naturally, was Roger Stern. Spider-Man debuted in 1962 and since then he has had some of the most creative people in the comics field chronicle his escapades.

Spider man by stern omnibus