Two weeks' worth of strips were written by Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee and illustrated by John Romita Sr., but the series was never picked up.
[2] Stan Lee's brother, Larry Lieber, briefly illustrated the strip but found he could not keep up with the schedule, and in August 1981 Fred Kida took on the assignment.
Unlike most artists who worked on The Amazing Spider-Man, Kida found that drawing Spider-Man in daily strip form did not present any challenges, but he finally left in July 1986, later commenting that he found the strip's violence to be excessive.
[2] Story arcs in the newspaper strip have varied in length (one storyline ran for seven months), but most last eight to 12 weeks.
In the case of "Brand New Day", reader reaction to the continuity change ("Brand New Day" establishes that the marriage between lead characters Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson never happened) was so negative that Lee opted to reveal the entire story had been a bad dream.
(Long-time Marvel comics writer Roy Thomas had been plotting and/or ghost writing the strip under Lee's supervision since 2000.
)[7] In March 2019 it was announced the strip would be undergoing creative changes; ostensibly, new content was "temporarily" being put on hold, to be replaced with reprints of previous adventures.
The first, Spider-Man Newspaper Strips Volume 1, was published in 2009, reprinting stories by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr.[3] Spider-Man Newspaper Strips Volume 2 was published in 2011, reprinting stories by Lee, Romita, and Larry Lieber.
Starting in 2015, Marvel and IDW Publishing began co-publishing hardcover reprints from the strip's beginning in a series called The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection, published by the IDW imprint, The Library of American Comics.