Story Another one of the big names from my younger days gone.
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Oh no!
Yet another marker that the world I was familiar and confortable with is dissolving before my very eyes.
It feels that if I read a comic book story during my halcyon days and did not take the trouble to read the credits there was a fair chance that it would have been written by Gerry Conway.
Of course, he is only 16 years older than me. Sobering thought.
Gerry Conway certainly deserves a tribute thread of his own. I always honor deceased comic book writers and artists by reading there work. In the case of Gerry Conway, it will be The Last Days of Animal Man, his last comic book work (that I am aware of).
He apparently co-wrote a What If special that revisited the death of Gwen Stacy a few years ago, but I don't know much about it. But I read somewhere (the Beat, I think) that that was his last comic story.
Ah.
He helped the Green Goblin kill Gwen Stacy.
I didn’t realize that Gerry Conway went pro at 16, almost as young as Jim Shooter. He went on to write for the Law & Order TV franchise, particularly the often overlooked Law & Order Criminal Intent. Here is a link to his many IMDB credits, which aren’t mentioned in the obit.
Gerry Conway - IMDb
And Luis: he was younger than I am.
(If you enjoy Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk you would enjoy him as lead character Detective Robert 'Bobby' Goren in 141 episodes of Criminal Intent.)
I did! He had lots of personality.
Gerry Conway was in his 20s when I started reading his stories. I still read and enjoy them today, but he was "grandfathered" in. If there was a new comic book written by a 20-something, I couldn't see myself reading it. He is between my sister and my brother in age, and they're both dead as well.
I knew Conway mostly through his DC work -- Firestorm, All-Star Comics, JLA (Satellite and Detroit), Steel, and more. Superman vs Wonder Woman remains one of my favorite comics, and I was thrilled to be able to pick up a new treasury-size version last year. And he was the first writer to really pull me into Batman stories; I never followed the character until his run.
He brought a lot of imagination into the world, and we're all richer for it.
I know exactly which box The Last Days of Animal Man is in, but as it happens, it is very difficult to get to. (Besides, I kinda want to read the Animal Man by Tom Veitch & Steve Dillon Omnibus first.) So instead I went in the opposite direction and read Giant-Size Super-Stars #1. Not only was it my second "real time" Hulk/Thing battle (following Marvel Feature #11), it was the first Gerry Conway story that really connected with me.
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