Marvel has announced it will be delivering Amazing Spider-Man three times per month later this year and has lined up a full stable of creators to make it happen.  The creative team is comprised of writers Bob Gale, Marc Guggenheim, Dan Slott and Zeb Wells and artists Chris Bachalo, Phil Jimenez, Salvador LaRoca, Steve McNiven, all working under the direction of editor Stephen Wacker.

The publication of three issues of Amazing Spider-Man every month will involve considerable juggling by the editors and cooperation and a certain amount of selflessness among the creative teams.  Working together the four writers have created a year-long overriding plot divided into four story arcs with numerous connecting subplots.  Each writer will be responsible for his own six-issue story arc (and the arcs can be collected and published as graphic novels) and the narrative flow will continue from week to week and help tie the books together even though the artists may change from issue-to-issue the writer's six-issue arc will come out consecutively so it will just take two-months to complete a six-issue story arc (rather than six months under the old once-a-month scheduling).

Amazing Spider-Man has long been the flagship Spidey title with stronger sales than the other Spider-Man books, so Marvel is hoping to bottle the ASM magic and release it three times a month rather than just one by utilizing what the company acknowledges is an experimental and as yet unproven editorial effort that will require lots of cooperation and coordination among the writers and artists involved.