You're the creep who's going to pay! I'm going to get you, Goblin! I'm going to destroy you slowly, and when you start begging for me to end it - I'm going to remind you of one thing - You KILLED the woman I love! And for that you're going to DIE! 
Appearing in "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story and recap) (See chronology)
Supporting Characters:
- ⏴ Harry Osborn ⏵
- Mary Jane Watson (See chronology)
- Gwen Stacy (Death) (See chronology)
- Daily Bugle Staff
Antagonists:
- Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) (Main story and recap) (See chronology)
Other Characters:
- Ray (Doctor) (First appearance)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Referenced)
- Carruthers (Mentioned)
- Flash Thompson (Vision or hallucination)
- Aunt May (Vision or hallucination)
- Randy Robertson (Vision or hallucination)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- Harry Osborn and Peter Parker's Apartment
- Murray Hill
- Lower East Side
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Canada (Mentioned)
- Montreal (Referenced)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- London, England (Mentioned)
- North America (Main story and recap)
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters (Main story and recap)
- Goblin Armor (Main story and recap)
- Pumpkin Bombs
Vehicles:
- Goblin Glider (Main story and recap)
Synopsis for "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"
In the previous issue Harry Osborn had taken LSD, which made him fall into a clinical Psychosis. This issue begins with Peter as Spider-Man now watching through their apartment window as Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson are at Harry's bedside. The Osborn's family doctor Ray tells Gwen and Mary Jane that Harry has been taking drugs again. He gives Harry a shot of Thorazine, a tranquilizer to offset the effect of LSD. Spider-Man decides to do a quick change on the rooftop and go inside where he is then confronted by Norman Osborn.
Norman blames Peter for what has happened to Harry and later in this issue cracks under pressure returning to the Green Goblin persona.
Peter on his way to the Daily Bugle building feels a cold coming on from the change of climate between Montreal and New York. While talking to Robbie Robertson at the Bugle dropping off some pictures of the Hulk from his Montreal assignment, J. Jonah Jameson walks in and tells Robertson about Parker to "get this disease ridden menace out of my building. Before Peter leaves he points out that Robbie should have Jameson send him a bonus check for about two hundred dollars for the pictures.
When Norman leaves his son's bedside he begins to think how he has failed him as a father. Then he starts to hallucinate and sees his enemy Spider-Man coming at him, soon he flees from the apartment out into the street until he gets to Manhattan's lower east side.
There in a place he had almost forgotten lies his Green Goblin paraphernalia. Then after returning to the Goblin persona, he decides to kidnap Gwen. She is standing at the window of Peter and Harry's apartment wishing there was some way she could do to help Harry when the Green Goblin comes flying into view.
When Spider-Man finally swings back to the apartment all he finds is a pumpkin lantern and satchel left behind by the Green Goblin. He soon realizes that Gwen has been kidnapped and that he must rely on his Spider-Sense to lead him to where the Goblin is. His Spider-Sense leads him to the George Washington Bridge as it is Norman Osborn's favorite President where he spots the Green Goblin standing next to a motionless Gwen Stacy.
At the bridge Spider-Man attempts to get to Gwen but must fight the Goblin with everything he has. Both Spider-Man and the Goblin fight until the Goblin swoops down knocking Gwen off the side of the bridge. Spider-Man then goes to save her and as his Webbing catches her, her neck breaks and she dies instantly.
Spider-Man praises himself as he cradles the lifeless body of Gwen until he realizes that she is dead. The Goblin taunts him saying that "she was dead before your webbing reached her! a fall from that height would kill anyone before they struck the ground".
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Gwen Stacy's death
Holding the lifeless body of Gwen in one arm Spider-Man raises his fist into the air vowing to destroy and make the Goblin pay for the death of the woman he loved.
Notes
Continuity Notes[]
- Harry Osborn suffered from a drug addiction from Amazing Spider-Man #96–98.
- Norman Osborn learned Spider-Man's secret identity in Amazing Spider-Man #39–40, however, selective amnesia had prevented him from remembering his memories of being the Green Goblin, including Peter's double-identity.
- Gwen's death is told from her perspective in Clone Conspiracy #1.
Continuity Errors[]
- This story identifies the bridge that Spider-Man and the Green Goblin are fighting on is the George Washington Bridge. However, the bridge depicted is actually the Brooklyn Bridge. This mistake is rectified in reprints of the issue.
Chronology Notes[]
Events in this story happen behind the scenes that affect the chronology of the following characters:
Spider-Man:
- ⏴ Page 1-4, Panel 3 ⏵ - Peter goes to check on Harry Osborn, leading to an altercation with Norman Osborn.
- ⏴ Page 4, Panel 4 ⏵ - Peter thinks back to Norman Osborn became the Green Goblin.
- ⏴ Page 5-14 ⏵ - Spider-Man discovers that the Green Goblin has kidnapped Gwen Stacy, goes to confront him on the Brooklyn Bridge.
- ⏴ Page 15 ⏵ - Spider-Man confronts the Green Goblin.
- ⏴ Page 16-17, Panel 3 ⏵ - Spider-Man fights it out with the Green Goblin.
- ⏴ Page 17, Panel 4-Page 18, Panel 4 ⏵
- ⏴ Page 16 ⏵ - Gwen Stacy is killed in the battle and Spider-Man vows revenge.
Gwen Stacy:
- ⏴ Page 1-6 ⏵ - Gwen and her friends visit Harry Osborn after his overdose.
- ⏴ Page 11 ⏵ - Gwen is kidnapped at her apartment by the Green Goblin.
- ⏴ Page 23 ⏵ - Gwen is held prisoner on the George Washington Bridge
- ⏴ Page 17, Panels 4-6 ⏵ - Green Goblin knocks Gwen off the bridge.
- ⏴ Page 18, Panels 3-4 ⏵ - Spider-Man accidentally snaps Gwen's neck trying to save her.
- ⏴ Page 18, Panel 5-Page 20 ⏵ Spider-Man cradles Gwen Stacy's dead body.
Mary Jane Watson:
- ⏴ Page 1-4, Panel 3 ⏵ - Mary Jane Watson visits Harry Osborn after his overdose.
- ⏴ Page 4, Panel 4 ⏵ - Mary Jane and her friends leave the Osborn mansion.
- ⏴ Page 4, Panel 5 ⏵ - Mary Jane parts ways with the others.
Green Goblin:
- ⏴ Page 1-4, Panel 3 ⏵ - Norman demands that Peter Parker get out of his home.
- ⏴ Page 4, Panel 4 ⏵ - Norman begins to remember that he is the Green Goblin.
- ⏴ Page 5-14 ⏵ - The Green Goblin kidnaps Gwen Stacy
- ⏴ Page 15 ⏵ - Spider-Man confronts the Green Goblin.
- ⏴ Page 16-17, Panel 3 ⏵ - Spider-Man fights it out with the Green Goblin.
- ⏴ Page 17, Panel 4-Page 18, Panel 4 ⏵ - The Green Goblin knocks Gwen off the bridge.
- ⏴ Page 16 ⏵ - Gwen Stacy is killed in the battle and Spider-Man vows revenge.
Trivia
- A fan poll conducted by Marvel Comics for their series 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time voted this issue to be the 6th greatest issue of all time.[1]
See Also
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Links and References
References
- ↑ Spider-Man In The 100 Greatest Marvels Of All Time. Archived from the original on November 6 2002.