13 Facts About Roger Stern

Roger Stern broke into the industry as a writer in 1975 as part of the Marvel Comics "third wave" of creators, which included artists John Byrne and Frank Miller, and writers Jo Duffy, Mark Gruenwald and Ralph Macchio.

Jim Shooter claims that Roger Stern co-plotted his last few stories for DC Comics in 1976.

In 1987, after a dispute with editor Mark Gruenwald over upcoming storylines, Roger Stern was fired from The Avengers.

Roger Stern contributed to such storylines as "Panic in the Sky" and "The Death of Superman" which revived interest in the character in the early 1990s.

Roger Stern wrote the 1991 story wherein Clark Kent finally revealed his identity as Superman to Lois Lane.

Additionally, Roger Stern was one of the many creators who worked on the Superman: The Wedding Album one-shot in 1996 which featured the title character's marriage to Lois Lane.

Besides his work on Superman, Roger Stern wrote Legionnaires from 1996 to 1999.

In 1996, Roger Stern returned to Marvel to write the miniseries Spider-Man: Hobgoblin Lives, and contributed to three issues of Spectacular Spider-Man in 1998 which featured the first confrontation between Norman Osborn and Roderick Kingsley.

Roger Stern collaborated with Avengers writer Kurt Busiek on Iron Man and the miniseries Avengers Forever, and with John Byrne on Marvel: The Lost Generation.

In 2007, Roger Stern wrote an issue of The All-New Atom and reunited with Byrne to produce a five-issue story arc for JLA Classified for DC in 2008.

Roger Stern collaborated again with Busiek, co-writing several issues of Marvels: Eye of the Camera, the sequel to the Marvels miniseries.

Roger Stern has continued to freelance for Marvel, writing the 2010 miniseries Captain America: Forever Allies and Captain America Corps, another miniseries, in 2011.

Roger Stern married Cornell University chemistry teacher Carmela Merlo in Ithaca, New York, on June 19,1982, at a ceremony attended by many Marvel staffers, including editor-in-chief Jim Shooter.