TagsTagsTonight'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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tonight’s cover image from the Lizard Collection: issue #30 of The Amazing Spider-Man, published in November 1965, a classic Stan Lee-Steve Ditko-Artie Simek work of art. Click to embiggen
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Tonight’s cover image from the Lizard Collection is another rare edition of The Amazing Spider-Man: issue #41, published in October 1966, featuring the first appearance of The Rhino. The Lizard Collection’s copy is in great shape, with some marks on the cover but with bright unfaded inks and white pages. ...
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Back at the end of March I posted a photo of the cover of Spider-Man #40 from the Lizard Collection, with a short synopsis of the story line and a note that the comic book was on the way to the CGC to be graded for quality. Well, here’s that ...
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Tonight’s cover image from the Lizard Collection is one of my favorites — a classic John Romita action scene, bursting with kinetic teenage angst. That’s Peter Parker’s unrequited love Mary Jane Watson onstage in the go-go boots, shakin’ her thang while Spider-Man secretly protects her from thugs behind the curtain ...
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Tonight’s cover from the Lizard Collection is The Amazing Spider-Man #45, published in February 1967, featuring Spider-Man fighting the evil Lizard (yes!) with one arm in a sling. A classic John Romita Sr. illustration. Condition: some spine stresses but otherwise excellent, with the LC’s characteristic bright inks and white paper. Click to ...
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Tonight’s Silver Age classic from the Lizard Collection is Spider-Man #5, published in April 1966, written by Stan Lee, drawn by Steve Ditko, and lettered by Artie Simek. This is round two of the arachnoid superhero’s battle with Molten Man. (Here’s their first encounter.) Again we see the bright unfaded inks ...
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This is another rare item from the Lizard Collection, slightly rough around the edges but completely intact and otherwise unblemished: Spider-Man #28, published in September 1965 with a dramatic black cover for the first appearance of one of Spidey’s most famous villains, Molten Man. One of my favorite covers in ...
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Tonight’s photo from the Lizard Collection has one of the most dramatic covers ever drawn by John Romita Sr., in a story about Spider-Man getting a bad case of burn-out. Click to embiggen…
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Tonight’s cover from the Lizard Collection is issue #16 of Daredevil, published in May 1966, in which Marvel’s blind superhero Daredevil faces down a very upset Spider-Man in yet another case of mistaken identity (Spidey thinks DD’s a bad guy), and much to everyone’s surprise, wins. Click to embiggen…
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Another very well-preserved comic book from the Lizard Collection: Amazing Spider-Man #39, the first Spider-Man comic drawn by John Romita after the abrupt departure of Steve Ditko.
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Issue #35 of The X-Men, published in August 1967, featured Spider-Man battling the mutant superhero team when they mistake him for a bad guy. Basically, Spidey kicks all of their asses and they end up apologizing to him. The Lizard Collection’s copy of this book is in fantastic shape; better than ...
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Tonight’s photo from the Lizard Collection is a tragic image indeed, issue #38 of The Amazing Spider-Man — with a cover that’s gone missing. (The interior pages are in nearly new condition.)
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Amazing Spider-Man #34, published in March 1966, featured a recurring Marvel villain who also appeared in other comic books, Kraven the Hunter. The Lizard Collection’s copy is very clean; 40 years in a sealed wooden box kept it looking almost new.
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Today’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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