Before that, he had a long stint on Dazzler, wrote the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man and Lethal Foes of Spider-Man mini-series, the Howard the Duck movie adaptation comic and various issues of several Marvel titles, including Avengers, Daredevil, Iron Man and What If?, as well as the Deathtrap: The Vault graphic novel.

Fingeroth also wrote The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels (featuring artwork by Mike Manley).

Fingeroth has taught comics writing at New York University,[6][7] The New School,[8] Media Bistro[7][9] and Soho Gallery for Digital Art.

[11][12] He has also taught classes, and functioned as organizer, moderator and curator of events at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.

The symposium, which was held March 24–25, 2012 at Columbia's Low Memorial Library, featured discussion panels with Fingeroth, Claremont, and numerous other mainstream and independent comics creators.