TagsTagsToday’s photo from the Lizard Collection: issue #40 of The Amazing Spider-Man, published in September 1966, billed on the cover as “The End of the Green Goblin” (but it wasn’t, of course — super-villains never die). This issue actually told the story of the origin of the Green Goblin: industrialist ...
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The cover of this book isn’t one of the best preserved in the Lizard Collection, but the interior’s in excellent shape, the pages are still very white, and the inks are vivid — X-Men #2, featuring the Vanisher, published in November 1963.
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, X-Men, Collectibles, Lizard Collection
Tonight’s photo from the Lizard Collection: issue #160 of “The Mighty Thor,” published in January 1969, in which the hammer-wielding Norse demigod encountered Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s version of the ultimate being, Galactus. They sure knew how to make their images jump out of the page; check out Thor’s hammer ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, The Mighty Thor, Collectibles, Lizard Collection
Tonight’s photo from the Lizard Collection is a Marvel Silver Age classic: the first appearance of the revived Captain America in his own magazine, published in April 1968. Captain America was originally conceived during World War II, as a sickly wimp who took an experimental drug and gained super powers. He ...
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Fantastic Four #48, released in March 1966, marked the debut of one of Marvel Comics’ most popular characters, the Silver Surfer. Following the photo is an interesting story about this issue from the Silver Surfer’s Wikipedia page. The Lizard Collection’s copy of this book has some minor flaws on the cover, ...
Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Fantastic Four, Collectibles, Lizard Collection
Cheap political snark via #Eerie Magazine #16 (July 1968), from the Lizard Collection of Creepy and Eerie mags. This is another book in really good condition, after being stored in a sealed wooden crate for more than 40 years; because they were kept away from light, the fading of ink ...
Comics, Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Fantastic Four, Collectibles, Lizard Collection
Here’s a highly prized comic book in the Lizard Collection: a very well-preserved copy of Fantastic Four #50. It’s one of the books we’re planning to submit to the CGC for grading. This is the third in a series that started with issue #48 — “The Coming of Galactus,” which marked ...
Comics, Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Fantastic Four, Collectibles
One of the reasons I’m visiting family this week is to determine the value of a trove of 1960s era comic books that my mom kept in a sealed wooden crate for more than 40 years. My brother and I have been amazed at the almost new condition of a ...
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