That's not all! Many consider this comic book story line to be the end of the Silver Age of comic books. Up until that story, comics had campy and cheesy plots, riddled with plotholes and plain silliness (for example Batman being turned into an 8-year-old and still fighting crime or Superman sneezing away a solar system). No one would ever dare to think about a major comic book character like Gwen being killed off for real, much less write a story about it. After "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" comic books started to take darker, edgier and more serious turns. Before "The Killing Joke" or when Bane snapped Batman's spine in two, before the death of Superman at the hands of Doomsday or Stark's drinking problems, there was the Death of Gwen Stacy. And to think DC fanboy's believe Marvel to be "kids' stuff" when it was Marvel that created the trend of dark stories in the first place. Ironic, huh?