Roger Stern

Roger Stern is an American comic book author and novelist. He is best known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, Captain America, and Doctor Strange for Marvel and for his work on Superman for DC including "The Death of Superman" storyline. Stern worked as an editor at Marvel from 1976 to 1980. His first regular monthly book was as staff writer for The Incredible Hulk taking over for departing Len Wein in 1978. Stern later became the writer of The Spectacular Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man. In addition to his Spider-Man work, Stern is known for his lengthy stints on Doctor Strange, and The Avengers. In 1982, he co-created Marvel's second Captain Marvel and the Hobgoblin, both with artist John Romita Jr. After Stern was fired from The Avengers, he began freelancing for DC, where he was one of the core Superman writers for almost a decade, working on Superman, Action Comics, and Superman: The Man of Tomorrow. He contributed to such storylines as "Panic in the Sky" and "The Death of Superman". Besides his work on Superman, Stern (with co-plotter Tom McCraw) wrote Legionnaires from 1996 to 1999. Other work for DC included a relaunched Atom series, drawn by Dwayne Turner and the co-creation of the Will Payton version of Starman with artist Tom Lyle. In 2000 Stern began writing for European publisher Egmont, for whom he produced scripts for Fantomen (The Phantom), and Panini UK, for whose Marvel Rampage magazine he wrote Spider-Man and Hulk stories.