Appearing in "The Long, Dark Pizza of the Soul"
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #32
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- Ezekiel Sims (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- NYPD Officers
- Misterious Arm (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Joey Gastone
- Jennifer Hardesty (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- Principal Roger Harrington (First appearance)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Cameo)
- Red Skull (Johann Shmidt) (Cameo)
- Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) (Cameo)
- Thor (Odinson) (Cameo)
- Loki (Laufeyson) (Cameo)
- X-Men (Cameo)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Cameo)
- Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr) (Cameo)
- Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius) (Cameo)
- Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (Cameo)
- Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich) (Cameo)
- Scorpion (Mac Gargan) (Cameo)
- Lizard (Curt Connors) (Cameo)
- Dex (Cameo)
- Crusher Hogan (Only in recap)
- Burglar (Only in recap)
- Uncle Ben (Only in recap)
- Sekhmet (Drawing)
- Horus (Drawing)
- Eve (Drawing)
- Albert Einstein (Mentioned)
- New York Yankees (Mentioned)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Referenced)
- The Great Weaver (Mentioned)
- God (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Spiders
- Psychic Vampires
- Ennead (Drawing)
- Mutants (Cameo)
- Asgardians (Cameo)
- Frost Giants (Cameo)
- Human-Reptile Hybrids (Cameo)
- Crocodiles (Mentioned)
- Scorpions (Mentioned)
- Snakes (Mentioned)
- Cobras (Mentioned)
- Jackals (Mentioned)
- Cats (Mentioned)
- Foxes (Mentioned)
- Octopi (Mentioned)
- Birds (Mentioned)
- Vultures (Mentioned)
- Insects (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- Africa (Only in flashback)
- Middle East (Only in flashback)
- Egypt (Only in flashback)
- Middle East (Only in flashback)
- Moon (Mentioned)
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield (Cameo)
- Magneto's Helmet (Cameo)
- Mjolnir (Cameo)
- Cyclops' Visor (Cameo)
- Doctor Octopus' Tentacles (Cameo)
- Vulture's Wings (Cameo)
- Rhino Armor (Cameo)
- Scorpion's Suit (Cameo)
- Super-Soldier Serum (Mentioned)
- Adamantium (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Long, Dark Pizza of the Soul"
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #32
Spider-Man learns about his origins and why he is Spider-Man. Morlun is finally strong enough to confront Spider-man.
Appearing in "All Fall Down"
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #33
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Dex
- David Letterman (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Aunt May (Referenced)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Psychic Vampires
- Mutants (Mentioned)
- Aliens (Mentioned)
- Birds (Referenced)
- Spiders (Referenced)
- Crocodiles (Referenced)
Locations:
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Venom symbiote (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "All Fall Down"
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #33
Spider-man faces off with Morlun, but is unaware of how powerful Morlun truly is. After hours of fighting, Spider-man must flee. Spider-man only escapes by blowing up a kitchen with Morlun in it. Morlun survives. Spider-man goes to Ezekiel for help. Ezekiel cannot.
Appearing in "Face-to-Face with... the Lizard!"
Amazing Spider-Man #6
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Daily Bugle Staff
- Flash Thompson
- Liz Allan
- Aunt May Parker
- Martha Connors (First appearance)
- Billy Connors (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- The Lizard (Curt Connors) (Origin revealed) (First appearance) (Appears in flashback)
- Museum Gunmen
Other Characters:
- Fats Domino (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Dinosaurs (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
- Tyrannosaurus rex (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
- Angels (Mentioned)
- Lizards (Only in flashback)
- Rabbits (Only in flashback)
- Snakes
- Crocodiles (Mentioned)
- Alligators
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- Florida
- Everglades,
- An Old Abandoned Spanish Fort (Deep in the Swamp)
- The Connors' Home (First appearance)
- Everglades,
- United States of America
- North America
- Heaven (Invoked)
- Earth
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Spider-Man's Spider-Signal
- Daily Bugle Newspaper
- Connors Formula (First appearance)
Events:
- World War II (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
Synopsis for "Face-to-Face with... the Lizard!"
Amazing Spider-Man #6
When reports of a humanoid-lizard (naturally dubbed "The Lizard") come out of Florida, Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson issues a challenge to Spider-Man: Defeat the Lizard. Hearing about this, Peter goes to see what Jameson's intentions are. He learns that Jameson only issued the challenge to sell more papers.
Later, while at the Natural History Museum with his classmates, Peter takes an express interest in the lizard exhibits. When crooks try to rob the museum and take Liz Allan, hostage, Peter slips away and changes into Spider-Man and comes to her rescue. Hearing another report of an attack by the Lizard in Florida, Peter decides to take Jameson's challenge. As Spider-Man, Peter pays Jameson a visit to take him up on his challenge, in the hopes that he'd send Peter Parker to Florida to take pictures of the event. The plot works, however, it backfires ever so slightly: Jameson himself is going to accompany the boy in order to supervise him.
When they arrive in Florida, Peter makes an excuse of needing to buy film for his camera to get away from Jameson. As Spider-Man, Peter checks out his only lead: Curtis Connors, a resident expert on lizards. However, when he arrives at the Connors home, Spider-Man learns from Curt's wife that her husband is the Lizard: He was trying to find a way to allow humans to grow back limbs. Since Connors had lost his arm in the war, he used himself as a guinea pig on the project. While his arm grew back, the side effects of the serum he created caused him to transform into the Lizard.
The Lizard then attacks the Connors home, and Spider-Man defends them. He then works in Connors' lab to create an antidote for the serum, in the hopes that it can change Connors back to normal. Going into the swamp to find the Lizard, he finds him and his army of obedient reptiles in an old castle. Setting up his camera to take pictures, Spider-Man battles the Lizard and eventually slips him the antidote which changes the Lizard back into his human form.
Connors thanks Spider-Man for his help, and they all decide to keep mum about the fact that Connors was the Lizard, as he had no control over what he did while in that form. Returning to a furious Jameson as Peter Parker, when Peter offers him the pictures (which he said he bought off a local) Jameson dismisses them as fakes and tears them up. He then tells Parker that this dud of a trip is coming out of his future pay.
Upon returning to New York, Peter tries his luck getting a date with Liz Allan, which ends with her hanging up on him because she is expecting a call from that dreamy Spider-Man. As a round-up to his adventure to Florida, Peter sends Jameson a mocking letter to the Bugle.