About this episode

Brad Douglas interviews Spider-Man legend Gerry Conway about his influential work on the character and the comic book industry.

We lost Spider-Man legend Gerry Conway back in April of this year. It was 10 years ago that Brad had a chance to talk to him about his run on Spider-Man that lasted 40+ years. At the time of the interview Conway had returned to Marvel and was writing the Carnage ongoing title and the Renew Your Vows book with a married Peter Parker and Mary Jane. During the interview we discuss. Why killing Gwen Stacy was the best thing to happen to the character How Mary Jane was a much better love interest for Peter Parker. Why Stan Lee possibly wrote Gwen as the main love interest Why he wanted to kill Norman and set up Harry as the main goblin His time working with Steve Ditko on a Spider-Man annual in the 1980s. His time working with JR from our podcast on the book Webslinger The differences in working in comics in the 70's and today. We also answer your dozens of questions from our message board. Discussion on the differences on working with John Romita, Gil Kane and Ross Andru Discussion on the new ongoing Renew Your Vows.

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