Gerry Conway (writer), Gil Kane (artist)
The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 #121 (1973)
Published by Marvel Comics
That “SNAP” came from a pure artistic impulse. It was not calculated or part of a master plan to mess with the readers’ heads…That said, I’d sure like to believe she was already dead.
—Gerry Conway, in Comic-Creators on Spider-Man (2004)