


How did you come to write Spider-Man and what was your first impact with the character? I would occasionally pass Jim Shooter in the hall and he might ask me, “ Are you happy? Are people treating you well?” Everyone seemed to be focused on making good stories and having a good time doing it. Writers were appreciated, and there was a feeling of being a part of something important–and fun. Marvel was a great place to work from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. You lived through the golden age of the Spider, between the 80s and 90s of the last century, you wrote fundamental stories on Amazing Spider-Man illustrated by Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen and Mark Bagley: what it meant to work at Marvel at that time, on main series of this character, together young illustrators who would later become the “disruptive” names of late twentieth century comics? Hello David and welcome on Lo Spazio Bianco

We asked the comic writer a few questions about what it meant to work at Marvel Comics in those years, on one of its leading characters. David Michelinie was the writer of Amazing Spider-Man between 19, a fundamental period for the character, both from a narrative point of view (the marriage with Mary Jane and the birth of characters like Venom and Carnage), and from that of the artists involved (two names above all: Todd McFarlane and Erik Larsen ).
