Just so I know… I’m now about half way through Spider-man: Blue and there’s a panel where MJ goes “you jsut hit the jackpot”… I checked back and it’s not the same one… Was it just copied from an old one or something?

If something good or iconic ever appears in a Jeph Loeb comic, always assume it was copied from a good writer. Also, don’t read Jeph Loeb comics. Close Spider-Man Blue and track down some Lee/Romita Spider-Man reprints.

Ummm…what about Buscema’s splash of Silver Surfer rising from the hand of Galactus?

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There was Lady Dorma, Sub-Mariner’s girlfriend. There was also Una, lady love of Captain Mar-Vell. Finally, there was a girl from the Iron Man comics, I don’t remember the name now, but she was Tony Stark’s love interest from around the time he got his own comics.

But I think Gwen was the first time a MAJOR supporting character from a MAJOR superhero died.

What I find interesting is how much the attitudes have changed. Back then, those deaths were considered a major step in the development of superhero comics. A sign of maturity, that Marvel wasn’t afraid of change, and that in Marvel comics, there was real danger and real pain. And that was considered a good thing, almost universally.

Now character deaths are usually considered “cheap shock value,” or even a sign of “woman-hating” (if the character is female. And that when the deaths aren’t seen as a gimmick.

Another interesting thing to note is that Quesada’s rationale for One More Day isn’t anything new. The idea that a superhero with a content love life was a less intense and less interesting superhero is decades-old.

Stacy was truly dead, Jean Grey was truly dead, and so was Elektra. That goober fanboys resurrected those characters in later years thankfully haven’t washed away our memories of those moments

Gwen Stacy still is dead isn’t she?