Issue Description

Spider-Man’s 30th Anniversary special! Check out an anthology of stories chronicling the rise of everyone’s favorite wall-crawler! J. Jonah Jameson reflects on his ‘creation’ of Spider-Man, while MJ recalls her intermingled history with Gwen Stacy. Plus, the Lizard attacks!

Plot

We start off seeing The Lizard running and jumping across building tops, while it mentions the torment of Spider-Man #1-5 being over. Now he is on a mission, but we find out soon enough. Actually, he lands..right at the Conner house watching Billy's birthday celebration (11 candles on the cake, take it as how you want it). It's night, why have it then for fear of rapists and muggers outside to get the kids? Anyway, Peter recalls Spider-Man #1-#5 as the last mention of The Lizard, but he doesn't know who's right outside the window. He jumps into a bedroom as Peter and MJ get the ice cream and bowls. Spider sense goes off and just as Martha goes in the bedroom to get a skateboard (present for Billy). The Lizard shuts the door and Martha gets scared. Lizard growls for his son and has Martha call for him. Coming in the room unknowingly, Billy faces his father, who scratches him on the cheek. Spidey comes through the window and fights a battle with Lizard. Highlights: Tail to the chest, thrown through a wall, gave all the kids recurring nightmares, being slammed pretty bad and Billy hits Lizard with the skateboard! The Lizard stops and looks at his son, who has a tear of hurt in his eye and The Lizard jumps through a window, hit by a tracker on the way.

Geez, Billy looks identical to Johnny Quest as a teen, looks pretty grown up for a young boy. Spider-Man is "Off to see the Lizard" la la la la....oh yeah, wrong movie. Billy feels like he wants to end this nightmare, while Martha tries to tell Billy it's not Curt's fault. He skateboards through the city, just happening to find Spidey jump into a sewer. Meanwhile, two strangers talk about May Parker (those fake parents..read about it elsewhere in this site). Billy follows Spider-Man (why leave the manhole open, anyone could fall down there!), but gets caught shortly and told not to worry and go home. Billy looks nasty as he removes the knife and vows not to mentally. Dang, man with a mission, or pre-teen. Spider-Man finds a complex from Spectacular #175 (Dr. Octopus, I didn't read it, I only cover The Lizard). The Lizard comes in, telling Spidey the whole plan (he's Curt at this time, mind- wise only). He says how the voodoo made his metabolism screwy, so he switched from cold to warm blood and vise versa alot. After a sporatic rage, he found the complex and a machine that could turn him back...with DNA from a direct linkage (it doesn't take a genius to know it was Billy's blood, that scratch was to get DNA). He wants to use the machine, but Spidey says the surge would cause it to explode, killing him. Lizard goes nuts then and they fight again, yay!

Highlights include: Spidey tossed in machines (Ouch), Spidey thrown through a brick wall (Bigger Ouch) and Penn Station falling on top of him (Biggest Ouch). After Lizard finishes his rage and gets pissed off alot, the heartbeat slows down and reason returns back to Curt. Spidey tries to reason, but he won't listen, doing it for Billy's sake. Spider-Man goes through a pep- talk and lifts the thing up, jumping in the hole to find the maching already on (oh yeah, the fake parents visit May, she faints)!! To stop the explosion, Spidey throws a tracer in the beam, zapping him (Pretty big Ouch). As he recovers, he sees Billy with a knife and no one to stop him! He walks up, ready to kill, but Curt (yup, human again) looks up at him and they exchange a couple words. Billy drops the knife and hugs his father. I think I need a tissue, sniff sniff. Happy birthday Billy (Spider-Man says it). Like Curt turns himself in to police (why, Lizard did the bad stuff) and Spidey comes home to MJ, telling him something's wrong at May's. They rush over there and see the fake parents, well they don't know yet, BIG DEAL.....

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

After the success of Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) a few months later the same creative team came back to start an ongoing series focusing on the character the two of them created.

The book's run continued until issue number 441 (Nov. 1998) when Marvel relaunched the title as Amazing Spider-Man Volume 2 with a new number 1 in January 1999. After issue #30 (#471) Marvel used a dual numbering system, yet the indicia still stated The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2. On the title's 40th anniversary the numbering was reverted to go from issue 58 to issue 500 (Dec. 2003) as The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1.

This volume ends with #700 and is picked up by the Marvel Now! revolution volume Superior Spider-Man.

Collected EditionsMarvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 (#1-10)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 (#11-19)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 3 (#20-30)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 4 (#31-40)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5 (#41-50)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 6 (#51-61)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 7 (#62-67)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 8 (#68-77)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 9 (#78-87)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 10 (#88-99)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 11 (#100-109)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 12 (#110-120)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 13 (#121-131)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 14 (#132-142)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 15 (#143-155)Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 16 (#156-168 and Annual #10)Spider-Man vs. Black Cat (#194-195, 204-205, 226-227.)Spider-Man: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut (#224-230)Birth of Venom (#252-259, #298-300)The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga Book 1 (#252-258)The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga Book 2 (#259-263)Kraven's Last Hunt (#293-294)The Amazing Spider-Man: Life in the Mad Dog Ward (#295)Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie & Todd McFarlane (#296-329)Sinister Six (#334-339)Powerless (#341-343)Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Round Robin (#351-360)Round Robin (#353-358)Maximum Carnage (#378-380)

Collection of sequentially numbered trades, Amazing Spider-Man.

Spider-Man: Mark of the Tarantula (#231-237)Coming Home (#471-476)Revelations (#477-480)Until the Stars Turn Cold (#481-486)Life and Death of Spiders (#487-491)Unintended Consequences (#492-497)Happy Birthday (#498-502)The Book of Ezekiel (#503-508)Sins Past (#509-514)Skin Deep (#515-518)New Avengers (#519-524)

Individual trades with their own volumes because of sub-titles.

The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Great Power (#1-17)Punisher vs. the Marvel Universe (#161-162)The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Ghosts of the Past (#259-272)The Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Return of the Sinister Six (#334-350)Spider-Man: The Gathering of Five (#440-441)The Other (#525-528)The Road to Civil War (#529-531)Civil War (#532-538)Back in Black (#539-543)One More Day (#544-545)Brand New Day Vol 1 (#546-551)Brand New Day Vol 2 (#552-558)Brand New Day Vol 3 (#559-564)Kraven's First Hunt (#565-567)New Ways to Die (#568-573)Crime and Punisher (#574-577)Death and Dating (#578-583)Election Day (#584-588)24/7 (#589-594)American Son (#595-599)Died in Your Arms Tonight (#600-601)Red-Headed Stranger (#602-605)Return of The Black Cat (#606-611)The Gauntlet, Vol 1 (#612-616)The Gauntlet, Vol 2 (#617-621)The Gauntlet, Vol 3 (#622-625)The Gauntlet, Vol 4 (#626-629)The Gauntlet, Vol 5 (#630-633)The Grim Hunt (#634-637)One Moment in Time (#638-641)Origin of the Species (#642-647)Big Time (#648-651)Matters of Life and Death (#652-657)The Fantastic Spider-Man (#658-662)Big Time Ultimate Collection (#648-662)The Return of Anti-Venom (#663-665)Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time - The Complete Collection vol. 2 (#663-676)Spider-Island (#666-673)Flying Blind (#674-677)Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time - The Complete Collection vol. 3 (#677-687 and 679.1)Trouble on the Horizon (#678-681, #679.1)Ends of the Earth (#682-687)No Turning Back (#688-691)Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time - The Complete Collection vol. 4 (#688-697)Danger Zone (#692-697)Dying Wish (#698-700)Amazing Spider-Man: Peter Parker The One And Only (#700.1-700.5)

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