/r/SpiderGwen
A subreddit dedicated to Marvel's Earth-65 Ghost-Spider, Gwen Stacy aka Spider-Gwen.
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
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
With regards to spoilers...
Be sure to mark your spoiler posts or discussion posts that might contain spoilers as [Series name, Issue number] and use the nsfw tag.
In the issue discussion threads, dont worry about spoiling things from that same series that happened in earlier issues (ie, in Radioactive Spider-Gwen 6 dont worry about spoiling anything from Edge #2 to Radioactive #5), BUT do be careful not to spoil things from other series (dont spoil things from Radioactive in Web Warriors discussions, for example).
In comments our spoiler tags are as follows.
[Spoiler Warning](/s "Peter is the Lizard!")
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Art by me :). It was meant to kinda look like a painting version of the scene with Gwen and Miles upside down. The point of the piece is to recreate the shot in a different style.
Did we ever see Gwen with an apple haircut?
I saw this at my local comic book store and I had never seen this Variant for Spider-Gwen Smash issue #1. I wish I had remembered the name of the issue, but the store wouldn’t let keep the name tag that was attached it. My ADHD made me forget already, if someone could tell me what variant this is, that would be amazing.
Thoughts on Kingpin Daredevil (E-65 Murdock)? I think he was a well-written character, but I'm surprised he never met/fought normal Daredevil. You have a dark Daredevil and a normal Daredevil. I think the story of the two meeting each other and fighting writes itself. Normal Daredevil, horrified to see how far a version of him fell. Kingpin Daredevil, secretly ashamed that there was a better way (although he is too proud to admit it).
I like how you had a big subversion of expectations for Murdock in E-65, and his arc vs. Ghost Spider was done very well. I do think a bit more could have been done with him, though.
Haven’t read her comics much so I’m not too particular on what’s going on but I’ve heard things. But I’ve never heard of a Black Cat or Felicia Hardy in her world for some reason. Have the comics ever gone into her?
Don’t hate me, but my suggestion for live action should be Dove Cameron. Yay or Nay? Why? I think she’d look badass as Spider-Gwen. I know there’s other alternatives like Emma Myers & Hailee Steinfeld but has anyone ever imagined Dove as Gwen?
Top Left: Gwen x Harry - image from Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider (2018) #7
Top Right: Glory x MJ - image from Spider-Gwen (2015) #23
Bottom Left: Miles x Gwen - image from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Bottom Right: Gwen x MJ - image from Giant-Size Spider-Gwen (2024)