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From the Comics Beat: Gerry Conway, legendary Marvel and DC writer, dead at 73
The writer, best known for co-creating the Punisher, and writing The Night Gwen Stacy Died, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2022.
By Christopher Chiu-Tabet- 04/27/2026 3:05 pm
Gerry Conway, legendary Marvel and DC writer, dead at 73
This is a very thorough article, which gives much more information about Gerry's career.
Before we were together, one of my wife's aunts died of pancreatic cancer. It's a particularly horrible way to die. Gayle and I worked in different sections, but had the same immediate boss. After he retired he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I think he was in stage 4 when it was discovered. He had the option of hopeless treatments. He wisely decided to do nothing and enjoy what he could in what was left of his life.
Someone on Facebook shared this sequence from the great Gerry Conway and the great John Romita Sr. Mary Jane Watson's redemption.
Marvel Creator Collection No. 1 - Barry Windsor-Smith at Marvel (released today!) collects Conway's collaboration with Barry Smith on an epic tale of civil war in Ka-Zar's Savage Land from Astonishing Tales #3-6 & 10.
I sort of lost track of Gerry Conway when he was at DC and I spent three years following only three title (all Marvels) via subscription. When the subscriptions lapsed and I ventured into a comic book shop (as opposed to a newsstand or drugstore) for the first time, I began tentatively dipping my toe into the DC pool. One of the titles I liked was the "Detroit Era" of the Justice League of America. I realize I'm swimming upstream against popular opinion on that one, but if you ignore the name, it wasn't a bad little team book. Took guts.
I was disappointed that it suffered so much from Crisis. IMO it was a better book than what came right before or right after it.
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