The Most Controversial Moments In Spider-Man's History!

[Leocomix]

I was a reader when Gwen died. I don't have a problem with JMS' story (Sins Past). His Spider-Man was a mature, Vertigo-like version of Spider-Man and I don't have a problem liking both the Romita years and the JMS years, just like one can both enjoy the original Doom Patrol and Grant Morrison's version, or Wrightson's Swamp Thing and Alan Moore's (and that includes the widely different Matthew Cable and Abigail Arcane).

[whiteshark]

Meh,i do not think OMD in the long run was such a controversial moment in the Spider-Man history.
A story that is activelly retconed out of continuity a few years after it gets published can not remain a controversial story in the present time as logic says.

Now stories that have not been retconed and are part of Spider-Man stories Canon,thats a whole diferent matter.
For examples:
Spider-Man versus Wolverine,a story that was published in a time of gritty storilines as Kraven Last Hunt or Gang War still does remain as a rather controversial Spider-Man story.

Or Spider-Man#17 (v:1) in which Spider-Man kind of dies and have have a out of body experience in which he meets Thanos and the embodiment of Death.
I mean Jim Starlin was one of the few writers that knew how to write Thanos well,(Except more recently DNA) and in the 90s there is this done in one story which have Spidey against Thanos and the embodiment of Death.Yeah that concept do not work well in Spidey stories.
It would be like having Spidey facing the emboidement of Eternity.

[E. Wilson]

Here's a more obscure one: Amazing 243. Peter leaves graduate school. Getting him out of the college background, which began the "aging" that so many other bad ideas were implemented to try and reverse.

[Mister Mets]

Here's a more obscure one: Amazing 243. Peter leaves graduate school. Getting him out of the college background, which began the "aging" that so many other bad ideas were implemented to try and reverse.

That's an interesting one.

It was probably a good decision at the time, allowing writers to sidestep the question of when Peter's going to finish grad school.

But it did make it easier for the character to be perceived as in his mid-twenties, and then his late twenties a few years later, and then his thirties by the time OMD came along.