{"id":13278,"date":"2008-09-11T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13278"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:30:58","slug":"gwen-stacy-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/11\/gwen-stacy-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwen! Stacy! Returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the 56th birthday of Gerry Conway, the writer who killed and then brought back Peter Parker&#8217;s girlfriend  Gwen Stacy in the pages of <i>Amazing Spider-Man<\/i>&#151;which makes this the right time to share another hidden bit of comics  history.<\/p>\n<p>When Gwen Stacy returned in the final panel of the May 1975 issue of <i>Amazing Spider-Man<\/i>, this is what readers saw in the published issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GwenStacyReturnsOriginal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GwenStacyReturnsOriginal-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"GwenStacyReturnsOriginal\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GwenStacyReturnsOriginal-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GwenStacyReturnsOriginal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GwenStacyReturnsOriginal.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what those who weren&#8217;t lucky enough to be working in the Marvel Bullpen at the time never saw was the alternate version originally handed in by artist Ross Andru.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GwenStacyReturnsPencils.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GwenStacyReturnsPencils-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"GwenStacyReturnsPencils\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GwenStacyReturnsPencils-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GwenStacyReturnsPencils.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps someone else has already shared this wild panel with the world, but if not, here it is, thanks to a photocopy I&#8217;ve been carrying around all these years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the 56th birthday of Gerry Conway, the writer who killed and then brought back Peter Parker&#8217;s girlfriend Gwen Stacy in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man&#151;which makes this the right time to share another hidden bit of comics history. When Gwen Stacy returned in the final panel of the May 1975 issue of Amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,32,20,23],"class_list":["post-13278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-gerry-conway","tag-marvel-comics","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13282,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions\/13282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}