Re: Was Spider-Man an Angry Young Man?

In rec.arts.comics.misc Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>  gbostock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > Having said that, Gwen Stacy was poorly written too and that was why
> > they had to kill her off.
> Nonsense.  They killed her off because Gerry Conway's not a good enough 
> writer to do anything else.

	I have to agree. Ascribing any motives as clearly defined and 
deliberate as that to the Marvel editorial staff of 1973 strikes me as 
wildly optimistic at best -- "I'm sorry, this weak ****trayal of Gwen Stacy

doesn't meet our artistic requirements, she has to go." Yeah, I don't 
think so.
	Not that I have a problem with Gwen being killed off, but there's 
no way it was the result of anything more than what was essentially a wild

"aww, hell, let's kill her off, it'll shock the **** out of those 
readers!" romp. 
	IIRC, a Comic Buyer's Guide interview with Conway made it clear 
that he simply didn't know what else to do with Gwen.

	- Mikki