The Amazing Spider-Man #74 (Marvel)
Stan Lee (w) John Romita (a)
From the heydays of Marvel as the established themselves on the comics scene as a major player comes this issue of Amazing Spider-Man which as I discovered after purchase is mid story so sometime the next issue will need to be sought out!
Most of my interest in Spidey was developed from the early run by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko which ended when Ditko fell out with Stan and buggered off to work for Charlton and the Distinguished Competion as the "man" used to call it.
I got to read these in one of those "giant size" reprint books, Marvel Tales which ran the Ditko issues and introduced me to Peter Parker the Amazing Spider-man. Those first 36 issues are seminal and unrivalled by any other team of creators who have subsequently worked on this comic book.
Still this issue sees Dr Connors aka "The Lizard" held hostage by the Maggia and under threat of harm to his wife and child is forced to translate a formula that no one else ever has. Meanwhile Spidey is confronting a bent lawyer and gets knocked about and blown up for his troubles as he tries to rescue the good doctors family.
The villain of the story Silvermane is old and getting decrepit and is searching for something that Dr Connors finally figures out, The formula is the fountain of youth!
Continued next issue. I'm sure there will be a twist in the story of Silvermane reverting to being a younger man......
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