Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Romita Sr. left in the early 70s and he was long gone by the time the 80s rolled in. It's a really strange place to make a cut off mark for a thread focusing on the mid 1980s-1990s.
And in any case after Romita Sr. you had Gil Kane, you had Ross Andru, you had Keith Pollard, you had Romita's own kid John Romita Jr. (in my view better than Dad). So the answer is wrong in either case.
They did. Gil Kane and Ross Andru did follow on Romita Sr's designs (not least because he was the unofficial editor of Spider-Man titles and art director of Marvel at the time).
The point is as time passed and things changed, that art style was seen as outdated and passe.
In either case you are dead wrong. The art of Spider-Man Comics in the 1980s to 1990s was a creative peak for the titles.
-- Ron Frenz on ASM with Tom Defalco. Frenz also illustrated "The kid who collects Spider-Man" for Roger Stern.
-- Mike Zeck on KRAVEN'S LAST HUNT.
-- Todd Macfarlane on Amazing Spider-Man which was radical and revolutionary and special.
-- Sal Buscema on Spectacular Spider-Man with J. M. DeMatteis.
-- Erik Larsen on Amazing Spider-Man.
-- Mark Bagley after Larsen.