Gerry Conway passed away a couple of days ago. I saw his work sporadically in the eighties (a few issues of Firestorm), likely seeing more of his work via television and cinema. I didn't pay much to writers for a long time. The first time I ever noticed his name was in Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8, where he closed the chapter on Gwen Stacy via a supposed clone.
It was a retcon that also served as a heartfelt bow to the character s he wrote in his own youth. Dialogue boxes were just starting to take over thought balloons, and I was very impressed with how Conway was experimenting mixing dialogue box with Peter Parker's own word balloons. I've never seen it done quite like this since.
From the annual written by Conway with pencils by Mark Bagley(!) and inks by Keith Williams.
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