# Episode 19: What Gerry Conway Wasn't Allowed to Say About Gwen Stacy in F.O.O.M.

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Podcast: [Why Not Say What Happened?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/why-not-say-what-happened-7069512)
Published: 2025-02-19T03:02:00+00:00
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## Resource

While shredding another old notebook from my early comics career, I reminisce about the many wretched one-act plays I created while being taught by famed playwright Jack Gelber, the lie I told Marv Wolfman and Len Wein which got me hired at Marvel, the most wrongheaded conclusion Fredric Wertham reached in Seduction of the Innocent , my plot for an Inhumans strip starring Karnak which had no reason to exist, the most ridiculous method any writer ever conceived of for killing a vampire, what Gerry Conway said about Gwen Stacy which was censored out of his F.O.O.M. interview, the first words to reach readers about my Scarecrow character, and much more.

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