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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: Death in the Marvel Universe
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 04:46:44 EDT
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> From: kwc@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.)

>     While everyone is talking and mourning the death of Kara/Supergirl I'm
> afraid that another death will be forgotten. Then again, that's the way the
> real world is. Only those who knew anyone who died on November 22, 1963 will
> remember them, but everyone remembers JFK.
> [...]
>     In the shadow of this event another death took place in the Marvel
> Universe. A death that hit me hard, because it was a character whom I have
> liked ever since her first appearance and now I'll never see her again except
> when I reread my comics. Somehow it just won't be the same.
>     The story is int this month's PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN
> #107. I have a terrible feeling when I picked up this issue and put off
> reading it. When I finally got to it, the splash page proved me right.
> Captain Jean DeWolff, N.Y.P.D. was killed by an unknown assailant in her
> apartment.

Thanks, Kenneth, for the obit. I remember Jean DeWolff's first appearances in
MARVEL TEAM-UP, but since I haven't faithfully followed the Spider-titles
over the years, I never really got to "know" her.

You're right that her passing will tend to be ignored in the wake of Kara
Zor-El's death, and I'm glad that she touched someone like she did you. I
intend to pick up and read that issue of PETER PARKER and the next, but I
suspect that I won't have the same reaction to it that you did. But that
*is* the way of the world, isn't it?

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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