This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/19/2016
This lot features the comic book "Amazing Spider-Man: The Death of Gwen Stacy" issued in 1973. This was issue #121 created by Marvel. "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" became a watershed event in the life of the superhero Spider-Man, one of popular culture's most enduring and recognizable fictional characters. The two-issue story (#121-122), written by Gerry Conway, with pencil art by Gil Kane and inking by John Romita Sr. and Tony Mortellaro, features Spider-Man's fight against his nemesis, the Green Goblin, who abducts Spider-Man's girlfriend Gwen Stacy; during their battle, she falls off a bridge and dies, despite Spider-Man catching her before she hits the water. This issue remains in remarkable condition 43 years later. In the highest grade, this issue has sold for as much as $4,000.