The Night Gwen Stacy Died

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The Night Gwen Stacy Died is a story arc published in Spiderman issues 121 and 122 by Marvel Comics in 1973. It features Peter Parker [Spiderman], his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, and his nemesis the Green Goblin, father of his best friend, Harry Osborn.

Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, has become amnesiac and lost all memories of his time as the villainous Goblin, as well as his knowledge of Spiderman’s secret identity. Upon learning of his son Harry’s drug addiction and subsequent hospitalisation, Norman’s parental grief leads to a breakdown, and his memories return. Again donning the mantle of the Green Goblin, he concocts a plan to wreak havoc in Peter’s life. He abducts Gwen and lures Peter to Brooklyn Bridge. The two clash, and he hurls Gwen off the bridge. Peter shoots his webbing at her leg, catching her just before she hits the water. As he hauls her up, he thinks he has saved her, but quickly realizes that she is dead. Unsure of whether her neck was broken by the whiplash from her sudden stop or had already been broken by the Green Goblin before he threw her, he blames himself for her death. The Green Goblin escapes, laughing hysterically.

In the next issue, Peter tracks him down to an old warehouse and viciously beats him but cannot bring himself to kill him. The Green Goblin sets his glider to impale him from behind, but Peter dodges, and the Green Goblin is impaled instead, and apparently dies.   At home, he encounters his neighbour, Mary Jane Watson, who is equally shocked and saddened as she has lost her close friend. The issue ends with the two comforting each other, and bonding over their shared loss.

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