Gerry Conway, the influential comic book author who co-created dozens of characters for DC and Marvel, among them The Punisher, Ms. Marvel, Firestorm and Power Girl, and some of the most impactful Spider-Man stories ever published, has died. He was 73.
Conway, who served briefly as an editor-in-chief at Marvel in the mid-1970s, had been battling cancer. He made what would be his last convention appearance at CCXP in Brazil in December and did a store signing near his home in Thousand Oaks in February.
“Gerry Conway brought real stakes to his writing, able to weave together sensational super heroics with the human and relatable, and in doing so created some of the most memorable stories and characters of all time,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said in a statement. “His writing has been hugely impactful across our comics, but it has also inspired so much of
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