COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Amazing Spider-Man 6
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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1198623003
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
I can still remember buying this issue in the local drugstore and reading it in the back seat of the car on a family trip to Florida. I guess that memory sticks out because the Lizard was a Florida resident, if memory serves. I still have that copy, but it is unfortunately not the book displayed, as like many of my originals, I proudly stamped it with my name to keep my brother from stealing it.
The Lizard had an interesting origin story, as Dr. Curtis Connors was a gifted surgeon who enlisted in the U.S. Army where he performed emergency battlefield surgery on wounded GIs. However his right arm was terribly injured in a wartime blast, resulting in its amputation
After his return to civilian life as a research technologist, Connors became obsessed with uncovering the secrets
of reptilian limb regeneration and developed an experimental serum taken from a reptilian. The serum successfully regrew the missing limb of a rabbit, so then Connors chose to test the serum on himself. He ingested the formula and he did indeed grow a new arm.
However, the formula had an unfortunate side effect. Connors was subsequently transformed into a reptilian humanoid monster. Spider-Man discovered this situation during a trip to Florida to investigate newspaper reports of the Lizard after his employer the Daily Bugle challenged him. After discovering the Lizard's true identity and origin, Spider-Man used Connors' notes to create an antidote to restore him to his human form and mentality.
Of course, as any Spidey fan knows, the cure proved to be temporary and the Lizard reappears in a number of later ASM issues.
Dr Connors and the Lizard appeared in Spider-Man 2, just as the good doctor, and in Amazing Spider-Man 2, in which the Lizard plays a prominent role. He was portrayed by Dylan Baker (as Curt Connors) in the 2004 film Spider-Man 2 and its 2007 sequel Spider-Man 3, and by Rhys Ifans (as Curt Connors and the Lizard) in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man.
Our 9.6 is tied with nine other copies for second highest graded trailing a trio of 9.8s we acquired the book from the November 19, 2015 Heritage Auction.
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