Gerry Conway, Punisher and Ms. Marvel Co-Creator, Dies at 73

At seventeen, Gerry Conway sold his first story to a comic book publisher; at twenty, he inherited the most storied title in American superhero fiction from the man who built it. He died last Monday at seventy-three, having spent half a century quietly redrawing the moral and emotional boundaries of the genre — teaching it that loved ones could die, that heroes could kill, and that ordinary people could carry extraordinary burdens. His creations have outlived the printed page, moving through film and television into the broader cultural imagination, where they will continue long after the grie