Except the story behind Life Story as a comic book is nothing like the tale of how El Sorprendente Hombre Araña came about. Plus it's interesting to hear from the artist of the series instead of mostly second hand speculation, which it mostly was a month or so ago - hardly a nothingburger by my account. But thanks for your comment.
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I would if it was actually what people thought it was for a hot second which this newsarama post confirms it wasn't...i.e. a protest run that had Gwen survive. This was basically just an attempt to pad out comics with dream sequences and spinning of wheels. And nope, it's no feminist protest at fridging, it's basically all about Gwen's perfect behind and the many creative ways they can compose the cover to feature it without repeating themselves. Milo Manara eat your heart out. Nor is this evidence of any Mexican fan following of Gwen Stacy specifically.
The good bit is that the artist is getting some attention, and if this gets reprinted and translated then I hope he gets pay and some credit, and maybe more work.
i must have missed the bit where people saw this as a feminist protest, but the internet does tend to take a ball and run far far far with it these days.
i see it as an oddity. but i also love stuff like marvel uk transformers and how trippy stuff like robotech is in contrast to macross.
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Just that it's best not to be broard about it. Using one Earth version as the bases for all versions usually don't work. Before you wrote the statement which holds true the person before you wrote: "Life Story #2 showed a married Gwen Stacy and it's not a dream there" It's a statement written in a way that feels like the person is saying 'All Peter and Gwen's of the Multiverses can't be and here is proof by one recent version'
Like saying for Peter and MJ will also turn out be a bit of a nightmare and can't have a child because one versions made a deal with the devil (fortinuite that dream to nightmare can shift back to dream and I hope will soon) and another MJ died by spider sperm. Multiverse and writers for characters of Multiverses can be influenced by past versions but the power of anything can happen and imagination is still the biggest positive factors in the Multiverse vs repeating the exact same story, characterizations, fates, pathways, choices, powers, and so much more.
The greatest nightmares for these characters are not the one's they had no power over but the one's they did and still made a nightmare from for themselves and others when morally or consciousness choices or words faulting. Usually when emotions override moral and/or critical thinking and actions.
In Life Story Norman, Miles, Peter, and Harry made various choices of words or actions that lead to Gwen dying outside of Gwen's or Helen's power or choice yet they are amoung the victims in turn. Helen made the only moral correct choice and stated words that served as Gwen's best hope to live after others made their words and actions happen but in the end Gwen still died. Helen was in shock and disgust at Miles and Norman as the others yet still was the only one to make the right morel choice yet having no power to take action had to influence Peter to make the right moral action when he wasn't (and agian if there was any hope to survive it lowers as time passes per second).
Marvel should print this and sell it as a special trade "Gwen Lives" limited or something, I'd buy it.
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IIRC, these were done without Marvel's consent. If so, not sure how the copyright would work to have a TPB on something that was done illegally.
Edit: Yep, it looks like it was done without Marvel's consent. I found this Sorprendente Hombre Arana cover with characters that aren't owned by Marvel.
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Never mind, found this:
(too lazy to check if this has already been posted)
The hero became the banner of Marvel in Latin America. He was the most recognized character by children and adults, and his stories, located between adventure and drama, made the world feel identified with him. Such was the success that the publication returned to be biweekly, then weekly and the press and Sunday strips were added in the newspaper of the same name of La Prensa.
The need to have more material to publish from the superhero caused the director of La Prensa to travel to the United States, to the Marvel offices in New York, and request a special permission to the license they had acquired from the arachnid in order to publish material own, created with a 100% Mexican team.
The director of La Prensa did not arrive empty-handed. He had asked some artists of the publisher to do tests that he could teach in Marvel, and demonstrate that they could generate their own licensed content. Marvel not only gave him permission to make his own comics, but also selected the artist in charge of performing the feat. Your name: José Luis Durán.
In an interview, the teacher Durán narrates those events in the following way :
"The director of the newspaper went straight to propose the test material to see if they gave him permission to make the material of Spider-Man, to fill the holes that were left in the monthly publication of the gringos, compared to Mexico that was biweekly. Then I began to draw with permission, not direct in Marvel but to the Press, which was the owner at that time of the 'service'.
In this case, Duran called "service" to draw what the publisher requested and in it, although young, was not inexperienced. In his curriculum he could already boast of having created more than 40 covers for the comic of El Santo published by José G. Cruz. In addition, the Mexican had already worked drawing the "friendly neighbor" of New York "in the newspaper of La Prensa.
"I started drawing daily for the newspaper, followed by Sunday and then we launched into the magazine. We made all three options, "he said in another interview.
Thus it was that from number 123 of The Surprising Spiderman (March 15, 1972) was published the first comic of Spider Man made entirely in Mexico . Decades before Humberto Ramos fulfilled his dream of being a Spider-Ma n artist , the teacher Durán became the first Mexican artist to take the reigns of Spiderman and with adventures created expressly for the Mexican public.
In total, there are 45 Mexican episodes, written mostly by Raúl Martinez and with drawings by the aforementioned José Luis González Durán. In addition, Duran drew more than a thousand strips of the character created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; replaced on some occasions by Roberto Ávila. In that same era, there were also published adventures by Nick Fury made in Mexico, drawn by Ramiro Zittle.