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| Spider-Man: Death of Gwen Stacy | 
| Author: Gerry Conway
Creators: Gil Kane, John Romita, Tony Mortellaro
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
Buy New: $38.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 284827
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0785110267
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780785110262
ASIN: 0785110267
Publication Date: July 1, 2002
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Collecting Issues #96-98 and #121-122 January 9, 2008
This collection, featuring a new cover by "52" cover artist J.G. Jones, collects the seminal "Death of Gwen Stacy" arc from Amazing Spider-Man #121-122, along with an earlier story arc featuring the Green Goblin and Gwen Stacy from #96-98. As a collection, this is one of the most powerful pieces of comic drama ever written, and it stands up surprisingly well today. In fact, the death of Gwen Stacy is one thing that the recent Spider-Man mythos reboot "One More Day" didn't re-do.
 a MAJOR event in the Spidey mythos March 9, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The writing is good and the art is solid, but what makes this a must own is it's long lasting impact on Spider-man history. This is one of the defining moments of Spider-man mythology. Anyone looking to know the character should really read this as it is essential.
I cried for a week for two reasons. August 7, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
One, GWEN STACY DIED WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! She was like the best character in the Spidey world before ish #121 where she DIED WWWWWWWAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! And the second reason, the Green Goblin died...BUT THEN RETURNED WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! That dumb lunkhead shoulda stayed dead. Oh yeah, this is a review. Well, this collects Amazing Spider-man #96-98 and 121-122, along with the touching backup story to Webspinners: Tales of Spider-man #1. I have no idea why the first three are in there, maybe the significance of the Green Goblin and Gwen nearly being out of the Spider-comics forever. Yet, 121-122 cause the event that changed Marvel universe into a darker place. It's what made the X-Men comics the scariest comics ever. And the Hulk too. Bottom line, Gwendy's death was one of the most important things in the history of comics. It was so important that in Spider-Man 1, MJ is thrown off the Queensboro bridge by the Green Goblin as an echo of Gwennie's demise. Ecxept Spidey didn't shot out a webline that caught her so suddenly. And the girl falling actually didn't die. But 122, I don't know why, has more value than 121. The Green Goblin dies. So what? He's not dead anyway. But, the backup story clearly rocks. It's about Petey and Gwen's last date before she died. And that's all I'm gonna give away. Ultimately, this book is a must have for any Spidey fan and cherisher of the memory of the lost Gwendolyne Stacy, the woman who Peter Parker should have married.
Two of the most important deaths in the Spider-Man saga May 27, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Actually "The Death of Gwen Stacy" deals with more than the titular fatality and the end of the original Green Goblin in reprinting five classic comic books from Volume 1 of "The Amazing Spider-Man." You also get the previous three-story confrontation between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin that became infamous when the stories did not receive the Comic Book Code seal of approval because of a major sub-plot involving Peter Parker's roommate Harry Osborn being hooked on drugs: (1) "Amazing Spider-Man" #69, "And now, the Goblin," Story by Stan Lee, Art by Gil Kane and John Romita, Sr.; (2) "Amazing Spider-Man" #70, "In the Grip of the Goblin," Story by Stan Lee, Art by Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia; and (3) "Amazing Spider-Man" #71, "The Goblin's Last Gasp," Story by Stan Lee, Art by Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia. This was the first time when Norman Osborn remembered who he was along with Spider-Man's secret identity. Of course, the resolution of this crises leaves much to be desired since it is a tentative, at best, fix. The most memorable sequences in these stories is actually when Peter Parker and not Spider-Man takes down Harry's dealer. This trilogy sets up the other story, not just because it is the previous confrontation between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, but because another subplot has Peter and Gwen resolving their current interpersonal conflict.The key thing to remember when you get to the next pair of stories is that Stan Lee is no longer writing the book and therefore killing off Peter's girl friend was not his idea: (4) "Amazing Spider-Man" #112, "The Night Gwen Stacy Died," Story by Gerry Conway, Art by Gil Kane and John Romita, Sr.; and (5) "Amazing Spider-Man" #113 "The Goblin's Last Round," Story by Gerry Conway, Art by Gil Kane and John Romita, Sr. Of course, the title of that first issue does not appear until the final page, since it obviously gives the game away, but just as clearly that is not a problem for this trade paperback collection. I think Conway did away with Gwen because Peter was getting pretty close to actually being happy and Spider-Man needed to get back to the oppressive sense of guilt that drives him because of the death of a loved one. Now, in addition to Uncle Ben, there is Gwen (Spider-Man was much more responsible for Gwen's death than that of Captain Stacy). Little would we know that the end of this story, where Mary Jane Watson stays with Peter to comfort him after Gwen's death, that this would end up being the start of something special. Also included in this collection is "The Kiss," by John Marc DeMatteis and John Romita, Sr., which is reprinted from "Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man #1," which serves as a poignant epilogue to the main events. This 112-page edition has a new cover by new painted cover by John Van Fleet. I would not exactly say that the deaths of Gwen Stacy and the Green Goblin were "great" Spider-Man stories, but they were certainly important and constituted an impressive one-two punch for consecutive issues. The historical importance would apply to the Lee stories as well. Unfortunately, these events eventually led to introducing the horrible idea of clones into the story line, both for the late lamented Gwen and Peter himself. More often than not, the dead should stay dead, even in the world of comic books.
A Tragedy for spider fans every where March 11, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a TPB of the saddest moment in spidey history. The Green Goblin commited his most henous act killing Gwen Stacy ( spideys Girl Friend). But it was also shows a supposed final end (impaled by his own glider) It also left room for harry to take his fathers place.
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