It wasn’t a consistent run as there are a few two to three issue arcs where we get a guest creative team but he was the principle architect of the Doctor Strange comic in the early ‘80s.

Michael Golden art from Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts #55 Stern was smart about his follow up run and took Doctor Strange out of this horror theme and wrote the book and Doctor Strange as a more super heroic figure. But this run had a horror vibe that had not really been present in the Doctor Strange tales before. Englehart and Brunner had revived Doctor Strange with an incredible run and Englehart and Gene Colan had continued with some great tales of their own. Stern had the daunting task of replacing the incredible Steve Englehart who had relaunched the title with Frank Brunner. Of all the great comics Stern has contributed to and of all his excellent runs one of my all time favorites is his time on Doctor Strange. They are entertaining comics but I’m personally more partial to his Marvel work. He also spent a long period of time at DC on their Superman titles. He was even instrumental in the creation of the West Coast Avengers, which just like Stern is an underrated book in Marvel history. He wrote one of the best runs on Captain America along with Byrne on art and his time on the Avengers is one of my all time favorite runs on that title. Stern had an epic run with Spider-Man, on both Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker: the Spectacular Spider-Man. Where his peers were launched to stardom and comics glory Stern seemed happy to write some of the best comics produced in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Stern joined the House of Ideas in the late ‘70s along with creators like John Byrne, Christ Claremont, Frank Miller, and Jim Starlin. Roger Stern is also one of Marvel’s most underrated writers.

Roger Stern is one of the Sorcerer Supreme’s greatest writers.

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