![]() ![]() Unlike Betty or Liz, Gwen was also a science major and she was more of a kindred spirit for Peter. With their hero maturing, Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko clearly set up Gwen to be Peter’s first real girlfriend following his pursuit of Betty Brant and Liz Allen when he was in high school. Mary Jane actually made a cameo appearance a few issues earlier in #25, before she made her official first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #42. Instead, Peter didn’t meet Gwen until Amazing Spider-Man #31 when he was already in college. Young Love Gwen and Peter: The Early DaysĬonsidering the way that the films and animated series have depicted either Mary Jane or Gwen as Peter’s first love (or at least as a longtime school friend), it may be somewhat surprising to casual fans that, in the source material, neither of them actually knew Peter while he was in high school. With Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse here, we’re taking a look back at how Gwen Stacy went from one of the comic book industry’s most famous corpses to one of its most beloved heroines. ![]() ![]() Now, thanks to Spider-Gwen’s starring role in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and its sequels, she’s become even more iconic. And in recent years, in an odd quirk of fate, Spider-Gwen, a heroic variant from Earth-65, has proven to be far more popular than the original Gwen ever was. Although the original Gwen we first knew has actually stayed dead for decades - a comics rarity - she has rarely been entirely gone from Peter’s life for very long, either as a clone or a doppelganger from an alternate world. ![]()
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