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Pete
believes shes dead. Faustus knows shes not.
How
did this happen?
Gwen's
Story
"All
Kinds of Amazing"
Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Gwendolyn
Stacy began her comic book life as a stuck up lass from across town that Peter
Parker (Spiderman, for those of you living in caves) met his first day at
college.
Gwen was a highschool beauty queen, probably
what we down here in Texas would call a "Homecoming Queen" or
"Football Sweetheart".
Blond, and with reasonable good looks, and
intelligent to boot, she was quite a package. Some jocks were probably driven
off by her intelligence, others by her haughty manner. She was used to all the
attention fawned on her, and developed special ways to keep the horn dogs at
bay, so to speak.
Nobody knew just what Gwen was REALLY like
until Peter Parker entered her life.
The first thing that happened is that Peter,
lost in thought over his ill Aunt May, paid no attention to her at all. This
immediately got her attention in ways no other man ever did.
How DARE Peter Parker not drool over her like
Harry, Flash, and all the other lechers round about! This will not do!
Gwen treated him coldly, thinking him
possibly too stuck up to even notice her. The feeling was mutual.
Peter took to her, but then so was every
other guy on campus. But mutual interest in biochemistry put them together
enough that something began to grow. Something very very powerful, that neither
was sure of at first. Pete, of course, was never sure of Gwen, or any of the
other women interested in him, but things began to roll.
Then the ice finally broke, and love
blossomed.
The guy in the background is professor
Warren. He has a crush on Gwen too, but in a more sinister way. While this was
going on, he was working behind the scenes to clone Gwen, and a host of other
folks. The man was truly a mad scientist, and as revelations showed, he was
also funded by the undieing and mad Norman Osborne; The Green Goblin! Warren is
key to my version of events.
Marvel began to catapult Gwen on the road to
her doom. Back in those days Superheroes usually didn't get married. With Pete
and Gwen's relationship, dispite some touching tender moments, and expressions
of true love the likes of which we haven't seen since Romeo and Juliet, Marvel
wasn't ready for Spiderman to marry. The Betty and Veronica type relationship
between Gwen and Mary Jane Watson (Peter's other love intrest and the girl next
door) was beginning to wear thin.
IT WAS TIME FOR GWEN TO DIE!