REVIEW: Gwen Stacy #1 has a tough job but does it well enough

By Zack Quaintance — Since reading Gwen Stacy #1, I’ve been torn about how broad this book’s appeal is. It is, essentially, a prequel to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s Amazing Fantasy #15 / Amazing Spider-Man #1, way back in the 1960s, and its a prequel that centers on Gwen Stacy, a character who as the backmatter for this book notes did not appear in Spider-Man’s world until Amazing Spider-Man #31 (crazy, right?).

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