--- description: A new Marvel Comics series follows a parallel universe in which Spider-Man is actually Spider-Gwen, Peter Parker's girlfriend Gwen Stacy. title: Now You Can Read Comics About Gwen Stacy as Spider-Man image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e35c00f61a81385/6987812b5f570f02b7b157b1/spider-gwen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [comic books](/tag/comic-books/) ## comic books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Now You Can Read Comics About Gwen Stacy as Spider-Man  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 26, 2015 5:21 PM CUT  Spider-Gwen Spider-GwenMarvel  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 26, 2015 5:21 PM CUT What if there were an alternate universe were Spider-Man was a woman? [Now you can see exactly what that would be like in a new Marvel Comics comic book series](http://marvel.com/comics/issue/52521/spider-gwen%5F2015%5F1 "undefined"). Spider-Woman is Spider-Gwen, as in Gwen Stacy, girlfriend of original Spider-Man Peter Parker. Gwen was killed off in the 1973 Spider-Man comic books (and again last year in _The Amazing Spider-Man_ _2_ film). But in this parallel world, the radioactive spider bites Gwen instead of Peter. Spider-Gwen was originally introduced last year in the crossover story _Edge of Spider-Verse_ No. 2\. The first new Spider-Gwen issue came out this week and featured her playing in a female band called the Mary Janes and watching Peter die in her arms after he tried to give himself superpowers to be more like her. Her reintroduction is part of Marvel’s ongoing effort to reach out to its growing female fan base. In the last few years, Marvel writers have also created an all-female X-Menseries, relaunched the comics of female fighter pilot [Captain Marvel](http://time.com/3554606/captain-marvel-movie-kelly-sue-deconnick/ "undefined"), [introduced a female Thor](http://time.com/2987551/thor-marvel-woman/ "undefined") and created a new Avengers-like, all-female [superhero team called the A-Force](http://time.com/3699450/marvel-aforce-secret-wars-superhero-female/ "undefined"). **_Read Next:_**[_Why Marvel Decided to Create an All-Female Superhero Team_](http://time.com/3699450/marvel-aforce-secret-wars-superhero-female/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3724147/spidergwen-spiderman-comics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3724147/spidergwen-spiderman-comics/"},"headline":"Now You Can Read Comics About Gwen Stacy as Spider-Man","datePublished":"2015-02-26T17:21:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:47.093Z","description":"Spider-Gwen has returned","url":"https://time.com/3724147/spidergwen-spiderman-comics/","keywords":["comic books","Living","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e35c00f61a81385/6987812b5f570f02b7b157b1/spider-gwen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e35c00f61a81385/6987812b5f570f02b7b157b1/spider-gwen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"spider-gwen","caption":"Spider-Gwen","creditText":"Marvel","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/comic-books/","name":"comic books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3724147/spidergwen-spiderman-comics/","name":"Now You Can Read Comics About Gwen Stacy as Spider-Man"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Understanding the Marvel Cinematic Universe","description":"How do we get from Iron Man to The Avengers? 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