What is your verdict on Gerry Conway's Amazing Spider-Man run?

[Mister Mets]

Recently, I've done a few threads asking about relatively recent Spider-Man runs.

But let's look at a classic run, the tail end of the first 150 issues of Amazing Spider-Man.

I'm curious about what the consensus on it is.

To explain the potential scores, as it's possible for one man's B to be another man's C...
An A+ is the highest score. It's meant to be pretty rare, an indication that this run is up there with the best of the medium (Frank Miller's Daredevil, Byrne/ Claremont X-Men, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, etc.)
An A is impressive, but not quite on that level. It would be among the best for the character.
A B indicates that the run is good but not great. The majority of the material is still worth rereading. In terms of quality, it's largely a success.
A C is pedestrian. It's neither good nor bad, and most of the material is probably not worth rereading.
A D is poor. It's a flat out failure. Most of the material isn't worth reading in the first place.
An F is worse.

It's also possible that some of the people here might not have an interest in Silver/ Bronze age comics, so there is an option for those who probably aren't going to read any of it.

[Metamorphosis]

Haven't yet got to reading all of Conway's ASM run--hope to read in totality someday.

[exile001]

I'd give it a weak B. Not pedestrian as C suggests, but some forgettable, bland stuff.

That said, there is some absolute gold in there and he certainly changed the Spider-man mythos forever (and for the better). The death of Gwen Stacey, the introduction of the Punisher and the original Clone Saga are excellent reads.

[Mister Mets]

I'd give it an A.

There are some bad stories, but also a few that belong on lists of the best ever. The Night Gwen Stacy Died deserves all the accolades, the first appearance of the Punisher is great, and the Harry Osborn saga may just be underrated (in comparison to Dematteis's take, which was excellent, but built on Conway.)

The characters changed over the course of the stories, which was rare for a superhero comic. And Conway was also one of the first writers to tie up most of his loose ends at the conclusion of his run, even if the original clone saga was good but not great.

[oldschool]

I voted an A but a B+/A- is probably more accurate. Conway's run is when I started reading the title as a young boy so the pull of nostalgia is undoubtedly strong and weighs into my decision but, to be fair, the man wrote one of the indisputable classic tales ("The Night Gwen Stacy Died") and also had the stones to snuff out the Green Goblin. Additionally, he created the Jackal, Punisher, Hammerhead and Man-Wolf; his Ock/Hammerhead gang war subplot was always a strong one IMO despite the fact that he tended to write Ock powered down a bit. He created a few clunkers as well (Mindworm and Grizzly) and penned one really bad story (the Doc Ock/Aunt May almost-wedding issue) but the fact that he was the first regular writer to follow Stan (not counting Roy Thomas' handful of fill-in issues) and created the classic Gwen story as well as giving us The Punisher and the first (best) Clone Saga, I think it's fair to call his run one of the all-time best.

[Ozymandias]

I voted an A but a B+/A- is probably more accurate. Conway's run is when I started reading the title as a young boy so the pull of nostalgia is undoubtedly strong and weighs into my decision but, to be fair, the man wrote one of the indisputable classic tales ("The Night Gwen Stacy Died") and also had the stones to snuff out the Green Goblin. Additionally, he created the Jackal, Punisher, Hammerhead and Man-Wolf; his Ock/Hammerhead gang war subplot was always a strong one IMO despite the fact that he tended to write Ock powered down a bit. He created a few clunkers as well (Mindworm and Grizzly) and penned one really bad story (the Doc Ock/Aunt May almost-wedding issue) but the fact that he was the first regular writer to follow Stan (not counting Roy Thomas' handful of fill-in issues) and created the classic Gwen story as well as giving us The Punisher and the first (best) Clone Saga, I think it's fair to call his run one of the all-time best.

Welcome back, nice summer vacation, I take it.

You want accuracy? How about 4.28205128 (out of ten)?