Real
Name: Gwendolyne Stacey
Occupation: Student,
model
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: Citizen of
the United States with no criminal record
Other Aliases: Gwendy
Place of Birth: Unrevealed, presumably New York City
Place of Death:
New York City
Known Relatives: Captain George Stacy (father, deceased),
Arthur (uncle), Nancy (aunt)
Group affiliation: None
Base of
Operations: New York City
First Appearance: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
#31
Final Appearance: (as living woman) AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #121
History: Formerly known as the "beauty queen"
of Standard High School in New York City. Gwen Stacy went
to college at that same citys Empire State University,
where she majored in biochemistry. During her first years
in college, Gwen lived with her father, George Stacy,
a retired captain in the New York City Police Department
who continued to serve as an advisor to the department
on a regular basis. George Stacys older brother,
Author, lived in London, England; possibly George Stacy
was British by birth.
As a freshman at E.S.U. Gwen Stacy first met Peter Parker,
another freshman who would major in biochemistry. During
their college careers both Gwen and Peter took courses
from Miles Warren, a professor of biochemistry. Unknown
to Gwen, Warren took an obsessive interest in her, which
he convinced himself was paternal in nature.
Nor did Gwen ever become aware that Peter Parker was
the costumed crime fighter Spider-Man.
When Gwen first attempted to get to know Peter, he was
preoccupied with the condition of his aunt May, who was
then seriously ill. Hence Peter seemed to ignore Gwen,
and Gwen assumed that he was intentionally snubbing her.
However, Gwen became intrigued by Peter (whose aunt fully
recovered in time), and soon the two of them began feeling
attracted to each other. This budding potential romance
was briefly sidetracked by Peters long delayed initial
meeting with Mary
Jane Watson, who became his wife years later. Peter
began dating Mary Jane, while Gwen, jealous of Mary Jane,
dated another fellow student, Harry
Osborn.
Gwen first saw Parker in his costumed identity of Spider-Man
in person when Kraven the Hunter abducted Harry Osborn
in the course of his plot to strike at Harrys father,
Norman. Spider-Man went after Kraven, and both Osborns
ended up safe. Norman Osborn had secretly been an adversary
of Spider-Man known as the Green
Goblin, but had forgotten his past as the Goblin due
to amnesia.
Gwen continued to want to be dating Peter rather than
Harry. Finally, Peter invited Gwen to accompany him to
a science exposition, for which Warren had given him two
tickets. Subsequently, Gwen and Mary Jane became rivals
for Peters affections. This situation soon resolved:
Gwen became Peters regular girlfriend, and, ironically,
Mary Jane became Harrys.
Peter and Gwen fell deeply in love with each other. Although
Peter had earlier been in love with Daily
Bugle secretary Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy was the first
great love of Peter Parkers life. Captain Stacy
approved of Peter as his daughters boyfriend, and
also came to respect Spider-Man as a crime fighter. However,
Captain Stacy was interested in learning more about this
mysterious masked vigilante.
Gwen was angry with Spider-Man on first meeting him in
his costumed identity, since she erroneously believed
he had abducted Peter Parker; she was overjoyed when Parker
finally reappeared. Later, both Captain Stacy and his
daughter were held prisoner by the Kingpin,
but were rescued from death by Spider-Man. Gwen now appreciated
Spider-Man, and soon thereafter, Spider-Man rescued Captain
Stacy from prison inmates who had taken him captive. Still
later, Parker secretly used his superhuman strength to
save Gwen from being crushed to death by a toppling truck.
Captain Stacy suspected that there was some connection
between Spider-Man and Parker, who continually succeeded
in getting photograph of the crime fight in action that
he sold to the Bugle. Later, while delirious from illness,
Parker confessed in front of both Stacys that he was indeed
Spider-Man. By convincing the first costumed adventurer
known as the Prowler to impersonate Spider-Man, Parker
manage to persuade Gwen that Spider-Man and Peter Parker
were two separate people. But Captain Stacy already suspicious
was apparently not deceived by Parkers trick.
Soon afterward, Spider-Man had a tremendous battle with
his arch foe Dr. Octopus
atop a New York City building. Arriving at the scene,
Captain Stacy tried to clear the area in front of the
building of bystanders. Octopus accidentally toppled a
chimney, and the pieces hurtled down from the roof towards
a small boy on the street below. Captain Stacy bravely
pushed the boy to safety, only to be fatally injured by
the falling debris himself. Spider-Man tried to get Stacy
to a doctor. Calling him Peter, Stacy asked Spider-Man
to look after Gwen, and then died in his arms.
Even though she realized that Spider-Man might not have
intended for her father to die, the distraught Gwen still
held the costumed crime fighter responsible for Captain
Stacys death. Nevertheless, she still deeply loved
Peter, whom she still did not know was Spider-Man, and
their romance continued.
Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson took both Parker
and Stacey with him on an expedition to the Savage Land;
Parker acted as Jamesons photographer, and Gwen
served as a model, posing amidst the jungle settings.
During this expedition, Kraven the Hunter abducted Gwen,
intended Gwen, intending to make her his mate, but she
was rescued through the efforts of Ka-Zar and Spider-Man.
Later, however, Norman Osborn once again became the Green
Goblin. Knowing that Peter Parker was Spider-Man, the
Goblin kidnapped Gwen Stacy to use as a hostage against
his longtime foe. Gwen fell into a state of shock and
was apparently unaware of all the events following her
capture by the Goblin. The Green Goblin brought the unconscious
Gwen to the top of the George Washington Bridge, where
he fought Spider-Man, who was desperately intent on rescuing
the woman he had loved. Finally, riding his flying "goblin
glider," the Goblin knocked Gwen off the top of the
bridge. Spider-Man caught her with his artificial webbing
before she hit the water, only to learn that the shock
of the fall itself had already killed her.
Vowing vengeance, Spider-Man defeated the Goblin in battle,
during this combat; the Goblin was killed when accidentally
impaled upon the sharp point of his own "goblin glider."
Professor Miles Warren, anguished over Gwens death,
used cell samples he had taken from her to create a clone
of Gwen, which he used unknown means to age rapidly to
the age Gwen was at when she died. As the costumed criminal
called Jackal, Warren later employed the clone of Gwen
Stacy in a plot to destroy Spider-Man, whom he blamed
for the real Gwens death. Warren failed to kill
and perished himself. The current whereabouts and activities
of the clone of Gwen Stacy are unknown.
Height: 5 ft. 7 in.
Weight: 130 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair:
Blonde
Strength Level: Gwen Stacy possesses the normal
human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build
who engages in moderate regular exercise.
Known Superhuman Powers: None
Other Abilities: Gwen Stacy was a gifted scholar
in the field of biochemistry.