From “Amazing Spider-Man” # 15, there was a gag of aunt may try to create a disinterested peter with “Nice Girl” Mary Jane, the niece of the best friend of May Anna Watson. Everything paid in “Amazing Spider-Man” # 42 (designed by Romita). Finally, unable to get out of a date, Peter opens the door to meet Mary Jane, and she leaves both he and the reader amazed. MJ had more than looks for her too.
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A lot of MJ’s dialogue is the slang of the 60s, but that is what did it contrary to any other character in the book. She was confident, trendy and altache. In issue No. 43, while she and Peter get to know each other, she reveals that she already has her own apartment and her determination to become an actress, while Peter still lives with May. When the Rhino is tearing in in the middle of the city, MJ goes up with Peter on his motorcycle to see the action.
This led to a brief love triangle in the vein of Archie, Betty and Veronica, except that it did not last so far from being so long. Peter was pierced by Gwen and thought MJ was frivolous. MJ took this on the chin and went out with Harry Osborn instead. As she continued to flirt with Peter and sometimes the cat was fighting with Gwen, you could say that everything was fun for her.
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While Aunt May worried about Peter and Gwen was “a non-entity, a pretty face”, Mary Jane was the only woman in “The Amazing Spider-Man” who acted as if she was the star of her own story. Getting rid of Gwen in favor of MJ was inevitable, said Conway when he was questioned by Howe:
“What is incredible is that [Stan Lee] Created a character like Mary Jane Watson, who was probably the most interesting female character in comics, and he never used it insofar as he could have. Instead of Peter Parker’s girlfriend, he made the girlfriend of his best friend of Peter Parker. Which is so false, so stupid, and such a waste. “”
The epilogue of “The Amazing Spider-Man” # 122 presents MJ to Peter’s apartment. An even more shelter from him to say with anger to leave – but she refuses.
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As the foundation of Peter’s relationship and MJ was their common grief on Gwen, it became easy to reject MJ as the second in Peter’s heart to Gwen. But Conway also rectified this. In His 1989 graphic novel, “Spider-Man: Parallel Lives”, “ Conway showed how MJ had always Known Peter was Spider-Man. Gwen has never known or liked Peter Parker, but MJ did it. In 2019, special issue “Marvel Comics” # 1000, Conway also revisited this pivotal epilogue with a story of a page on the friendship of MJ and Gwen.
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Making Mary Jane in the main woman of Peter Parker’s life was 100% call. But is Gwen’s Conway assessment precise? What made Gwen Stacy less interesting?
