8 Times Marvel And DC Screwed Over Comic Book Creators

3. J. Michael Straczynski Clashed With Marvel Over One More Day

It's impossible to find a Spider-Man comic more controversial than One More Day. The comic undid years of Peter Parker's development by erasing the events of Civil War and 1987's The Wedding, which had seen Parker marry longtime love interest Mary Jane Watson, and has frequently been criticised as an example of mainstream superhero comics' inability to genuinely move forward.

Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada had a long running dislike for Parker and MJ's marriage, believing that Spider-Man was losing touch with the hip, modern youths of the late noughties. So in a bid to make him 'relatable' again, Quesada came up with One More Day, which he planned to draw as a conclusion to J. Michael Straczynski's run on Spider-Man.

Although Straczynski was reportedly okay with erasing Parker's marriage (at least according to Quesada), the writer went on the record to state how dissatisfied he was with the comic, and how he initially wanted his name taken off the last two issues. In a now deleted post, Straczynski said the following:

"In the current storyline, there's a lot that I don't agree with, and I made this very clear to everybody within shouting distance at Marvel, especially Joe [Quesada]. I'll be honest: there was a point where I made the decision, and told Joe, that I was going to take my name off the last two issues of the OMD arc."

Would Straczynski have preferred to end his Spidey run in a different way? Quite probably, one would surmise based on this statement. Instead, he was forced to cap it off with the worst Spidey story of all time, and it takes some beating to dethrone the Clone Saga in that category.