The next year, Stern returned to Marvel, where he wrote new stories for "Giant-Size Incredible Hulk", "The Amazing Spider-Man", "Young Allies" "70th Anniversary Special", "Amazing Spider-Man Family", "Web of Spider-Man" (vol. 2), "Captain America" and "The Many Loves of the Amazing Spider-Man". He collaborated again with Busiek, co-writing several issues of ', the sequel to the "Marvels" miniseries. Stern has continued to freelance for Marvel, writing the 2010 miniseries "Captain America: Forever Allies" and "Captain America Corps", another miniseries, in 2011. In 2012, he worked on an issue of the limited series "Hulk Smash Avengers" with artist Karl Moline, and wrote issue 156.1 of ' (vol. 2). In 2015, he contributed a story to "Spider-Verse Team-Up" #1.