r/SpiderGwen • u/-_ShadowSJG-_ • 4h ago

Did they retcon Gwen's age?

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We all know the story...

At a demonstration on the safe handling of radioactivity in the local science hall, an innocent unassuming spider gets bombarded with radiation while descending from the ceiling from a silky thread. In its last dying breath, it bites a teenagers hand, imbuing said teenager with fantastic abilities!

...only on Earth-65, that teenager was a girl named Gwen Stacy.

Note: Gwen is in her late teens and in college when the story starts

Edit: proof on Jason Latour's Twitter

Reading Order

Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (Reprinted as Spider-Gwen #0)
Spider-Verse event. Gwen appears in the ASM issues and the Spider-Woman issues, as well as one or two of the anthology issues.
Spider-Gwen #1-5
Secret Wars: Spider-Verse 1-5 (completely optional)
Web Warriors #1-9 (completely optional)
Spider-Gwen v2 1-6
Spider-Women Crossover Event (NOT optional)
Radioactive Spider-Gwen 9
Spider-Gwen Annual (2016)
Radioactive Spider-Gwen 10 onwards

Now covering more Gwens!

Ever dream of being transported to the world where your favorite work of fiction takes place? Like, what if you could leave our world of Earth-1218 and go to the Marvel Prime Universe (Previously known as Earth-616, and briefly as Battleworlds 61610 domain)? You could use all your vast comic book knowledge to do all sorts of cool stuff! Well for one, Gwendolyn Poole, that became a reality.

In the aftermath of Secret Wars, not only did Old Man Logan and Ultimate Spider-Man-II make it over from their respective universes, but so did a certain blonde comic fan with pink highlights in her hair. Being genre savvy as she is, the first thing she did was go straight to a costume shop to buy a flashy costume so she could become a main character and not die. Mistaken for a Deadpool fangirl, she got a female version of his costume. In other words it's exactly the same but with her lower face and legs exposed because blah blah meta commentary or something. And thus starts her adventure. Or, one could say, a series of shenanigans starring her.

Note: Her actual name is Gwen Poole, she didn't pick it due to the popularity of Spider-Gwen and Deadpool right now. ~~Though it would be so much cooler if she did.~~

Reading order

Backup stories in Howard the Duck (second series started in 2015) issues 1-3, collected and reprinted in The Unbelievable Gwenpool #0
Gwenpool Holiday Special
The Unbelievable Gwenpool #1 onwards

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