8 Creators Who Secretly Defined Your Favourite Heroes

4. Gerry Conway And John Romita - Spider-Man

Even though Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and John Romita undeniably built the defining image of Spider-Man, the wall-crawler isn't so unique that later creatives haven't been able to leave their own mark on the character. There's the iconic Alien Costume Saga of the eighties, which saw several seminal stories emerge from the likes of Peter David, J. M. DeMatteis and Tom DeFalco.

The nineties - although often seen as an awkward period for the web-slinger - also saw important developments made as far as visuals were concerned, with Todd McFarlane, Mark Bagley and John Romita Jr. all emerging as key forces.

However, there's another duo that deserves to be held in nearly as high regard as Lee and Ditko, and that's Gerry Conway and John Romita Sr. Romita had succeeded Ditko on Spider-Man when the artist left Marvel, but Conway was still a relative newcomer. In fact, he was only nineteen when he first started scripting The Amazing Spider-Man. Nineteen!

Conway and Romita are important to Spidey for different reasons, with the latter responsible for crafting the defining version of Spider-Man's world, and the former more-so because he oversaw the introduction of several important Marvel staples. Conway scripted The Night Gwen Stacy Died, introduced the Punisher and Jackal, and ultimately left the character having changed his world forever.