TagsTagsTonight's image from the Lizard Collection is an unusual and somewhat rare item: issue #1 of "Iron Man and Sub-Mariner," published in April 1968. It's unusual because issue #1 was also the only issue ever published by Marvel Comics under this title, by design. At this time, Marvel was promoting all ...
Comic Books, Lizard Collection, Marvel Comics, Iron Man, Sub-Mariner, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Gene Colan
Marvel's "Not Brand Echh" was a short-lived (13 issues) attempt at humor in the style of Mad Magazine, mostly poking fun at their own superhero characters, but occasionally taking shots at their DC rivals as well. The Lizard Collection's copy of the first issue (published in August 1967) isn't in ...
Comic Books, Lizard Collection, Marvel Comics, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Silver Age, Not Brand Echh
R. Crumb's "Home Grown Funnies" was first published in 1971, and has had at least 20 printings since then. It's a solo work with Crumb's unusual imagination on full display, featuring The Snoid From Sheboygan and a bizarre extended piece, "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot." I know this copy is from one of ...
Tonight's photo from the Lizard Collection is issue #103 of the resurrected Captain America series, featuring another classic Jack Kirby cover drawing of the fearsome Red Skull. This copy is in great condition, with amazingly unfaded inks, white pages, and shiny staples. Click to enlarge Marvel Studios is releasing their first Captain ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Captain America, Lizard Collection, Jack Kirby, Silver Age
Tonight's cover image from the Lizard Collection is one of my favorite Jack Kirby illustrations, a great example of his "energy foam" style, with a full color Silver Surfer overlaid on a dramatic duochrome background: issue #72 of Fantastic Four, published in March 1968. The LC copy is in excellent condition ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Fantastic Four, Lizard Collection, Jack Kirby, Silver Age, Silver Surfer
Tonight's cover image from the Lizard Collection is a near-mint condition copy of one of Jack Kirby's masterpieces: the angst-ridden, history-haunted dark blue illustration for issue #107 in Volume 1 of the Captain America series, published in November 1968. Click to enlarge A synopsis of the storyline from the Marvel Comics Database: ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Captain America, Lizard Collection, Jack Kirby, Silver Age
Here's one of the oldest comic books in the Lizard Collection: Journey Into Mystery #99, published in December 1963, featuring the artwork of Don Heck and Artie Simek. (And the writing of Stan Lee, natch.) Click to enlarge On the back cover: "Give Me Just One Evening and I'll Teach You to ...
Tonight's cover image from the Lizard Collection is a pretty rare issue, in excellent condition with white pages and bright inks: the Amazing Spider-Man #36, published in May 1966. This was the first appearance of the recurring mad scientist character called "The Looter" (aka "Meteor Man"), and has a great ...
Rare, Lizard Collection, Collectibles, Spider-Man, Marvel Comics, Comic Books, Whoopee Cushion
Tonight's classic cover image from the Silver Age of Marvel Comics: issue #68 of The Amazing Spider-Man, published in January 1969. Among collectors this is considered an important issue, because it marked the beginning of the complex, long-running storyline of the "Petrified Tablet," an ancient stone tablet that grants its ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Spider-Man, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Rare
The Green Lantern movie is coming out next year, and that's all the excuse I need to post another comic book cover from the Lizard Collection: Green Lantern #55, published in September 1967. Our copy is in excellent condition with minor spine stresses, sharp corners, and bright inks; it isn't ...
Comic Books, DC Comics, Green Lantern, Collectibles, Lizard Collection
The Amazing Spider-Man #64 was published in September 1968, and featured a beautifully detailed cover illustration by John Romita. (Is that a Volkswagen just behind Spidey's right foot?) The Lizard Collection's copy is in near-mint (to mint) condition; the paper is so bright and the ink so unfaded, it looks and ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Spider-Man, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Rare
As Halloween perpetrates its Satanic evil on the neighborhoods of America, here's Eerie #8, released in March 1967, featuring another mind-warping cover painting by the great Frank Frazetta titled "Demon Sword." Click to embiggen
Comic Books, Warren Publishing, Eerie, Frank Frazetta, Halloween
Issue #5 of Eerie Magazine came out in September 1966 with another classic Frank Frazetta cover, depicting some unlucky swamp explorers who encounter something a bit larger than a gator. Click to embiggen
Comic Books, Warren Publishing, Eerie, Frank Frazetta, Halloween
Continuing our Halloween comics theme, here's issue #3 of Warren Publishing's Eerie, released in May 1966. This issue featured another classic Frank Frazetta painting, with a scuba diver who wishes he hadn't opened a treasure chest on the bottom of the sea. Click to embiggen The back cover shows what happened next: Click ...
Comic Books, Warren Publishing, Eerie, Frank Frazetta, Halloween
Eerie #2 was released in March 1966 by Warren Publishing, featuring this terrific cover by Frank Frazetta. The Lizard Collection copy of this one is damaged slightly, so it's not worth a lot as a collector's item, but the colors are still bright and unfaded and the artwork looks great. ...
Comic Books, Warren Publishing, Eerie, Frank Frazetta, Halloween
As Halloween approaches, here's the Lizard Collection's copy of Frank Frazetta's classic cover illustration for Creepy #7. A werewolf and a vampire battle to the death (or whatever) in an abandoned castle's graveyard. Dig it. Click to embiggen
Comic Books, Warren Publishing, Creepy, Frank Frazetta, Halloween
Published in December 1966, tonight's cover image from the Lizard Collection is issue #57 of Fantastic Four, another classic Stan Lee-Jack Kirby work from the Silver Age of Marvel. Click to embiggen
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Fantastic Four, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Rare, Doctor Doom
Published in December 1967, issue #11 of "Betty and Me" was just bursting with double entendre goodness. Click to embiggen
Here's another amazingly well-preserved comic book from the Lizard Collection: Spider-Man #62, published in July 1968. Our copy is in near mint condition, with unfaded inks and white pages, and a beautiful cover by the great John Romita Sr. (I guess Aunt May never told Spidey he shouldn't get a redhead ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Spider-Man, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Rare
Tonight's cover image from the Lizard Collection: a "very fine" to "near mint" copy of Captain Marvel #1, originally published in May 1968. Wikipedia has some interesting details on the unique history of this book: Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics). Following a trial in which DC Comics sued Fawcett Comics for ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Captain Marvel, Collectibles, Rare, Lizard Collection
Tonight's near-mint condition cover from the Lizard Collection: issue #102 of the new Captain America series, which began with issue #100. It's especially relevant in light of the many sleepers we have seen awaken at LGF since the "Ground Zero Mosque" nontroversy began. Click to embiggen
Comics, Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Captain America, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Rare
Tonight's action-packed cover from the Lizard Collection: issue #2 of Jim Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., published in July 1968 with the low-key title "So Shall Ye Reap Death!" Steranko wrote the script, drew the pencil artwork, and according to some sources did much of the inking as well. There's ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Nick Fury, Collectibles, Rare, Lizard Collection, Psychedelia, Pop Art, Steranko
Another classic cover from the Lizard Collection's Marvel section: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Dick Ayers at the height of their talents, originally published in January 1966. This great team of artists would re-imagine the same concept two years later, on a smaller scale, in Captain America #104. Click to embiggen
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Avengers, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Rare, #24
Tonight's image from the Lizard Collection is not the most valuable book in our collection, but it's probably the rarest. Published in September 1963, here's the first issue of one of Marvel's most successful titles: The X-Men. I bought this used at a small locally owned bookstore on King Street in ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, X-Men, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Rare, #1
Tonight's cover from the Lizard Collection is in incredible near-mint condition: Captain America #104, published in August 1968, the fifth issue of the resurrected Captain America series. This is an illustration Quentin Tarantino would appreciate -- a circular firing squad by a mob of Red Skull cronies. This book will soon ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Captain America, Red Skull, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Rare, CGC