![]() ![]() ![]() 31, Peter Parker enrolled in college and met Gwen Stacy. For a while, the near-constant presence of Mary Jane Watson often seemed to undermine the seriousness of Peter and Gwen’s relationship, and the three of them sometimes fell into Archie-Betty-Veronica shenanigans. But Gwen dragged the squarish Parker into the spirit of the times: She went to Ralph Nader rallies, celebrated Betty Friedan’s birthday, and tried to drag him to see I Am Curious (Yellow). In 1973, the Green Goblin threw Gwen Stacy off the Brooklyn Bridge, Spider-Man caught her with his webbing, and her neck snapped.Īnd her buckskin dress, go-go boots, and bangs won the hearts of a generation of readers. She’s since returned, more than once, as a clone, but there’s still something creepy about the rejuvenation of a character who has loomed larger in death than she did in life, kind of like if Laura Palmer and Billy Briggs suddenly headed up a rom-com. ![]()
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