THE DEATH OF GWEN STACY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE COMIC WORLD

ABSTRACT

This essay-article addresses the topic of how the death of Gwen Stacy, the girlfriend of Peter Parker, Spider-Man, impacted comics after the event. The relevance of this study lies in discussing the impact of fictional characters on real life and how they become part of human existence, becoming important and, later, when they leave these scenarios, the void they leave, accompanied by I miss you immensely. Gwen Stacy was a very important character in the stories of the Web Head , helping him to find himself in the midst of the turmoil of disconnected thoughts arising from a multifaceted existence with countless responsibilities, which generated a crisis of anguish and melancholy, unparalleled. Peter tries to remember her as an innocent and, at the same time, mature girl; full of life and joy. The impact of her death was so devastating that, after it happened, whenever Peter Parker looked in the mirror, he could no longer see a Super Hero; he always saw someone who had failed [ who he loved the most ] and what's more, all superheroes came to see themselves as failureable individuals. Much worse than this, society, ordinary individuals, finally understood that they were not the infallible gods in which all their faith was placed. A good part of Blondie or Buddy from the Neighborhood fans have not forgiven the writers for what they did, not to Gwen Stacy or the pain they inflicted on Parker, but for what they did to them. She deserves the place of honor that she holds in the memory of fans and, it can be said that over the next fifty years, several other works tend to emerge, enhancing her memory and her charming glow that, for years, guided Spider-Man through the dark path of being a teenage Super-Hero, with a load of enemies that would make any other of the genre, already established in the Comics World, envious.