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Liz Allan
Liz Allan

Liz Allan

311 appearances · Silver Age · 1963–2026 · 12 key issues
Who is Liz Allan?

Liz Allan debuted as a popular student at Midtown High School and one of Peter Parker's classmates, a normal teenager with no powers. Years later, her life became deeply entangled with the Osborn legacy through her marriage to Harry Osborn, and she eventually bonded with the Misery symbiote, gaining its formidable abilities.

From the very first year of The Amazing Spider-Man, Liz Allan has been woven into the fabric of Marvel's most beloved corner of New York — a Silver Age original, debuting in 1963 alongside Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's earliest vision of Peter Parker's world. She's one of those rare characters whose roots run all the way back to the beginning, sharing pages with icons like Flash Thompson, Betty Brant, J. Jonah Jameson, and Aunt May across an extraordinary 63-year publishing history. With 161 catalog appearances and a dozen key issues to her name, Liz has proven herself far more than a supporting player — her prominence in series like Cult of Carnage: Misery and Red Goblin speaks to a character who has grown and evolved with the Marvel Universe itself. For collectors who love discovering how deep the roots of Spider-Man's world truly go, Liz Allan is essential reading.

Identity

Real name. Elizabeth "Liz" Allan (Allan-Osborn)

Powers. Originally a normal human civilian (no powers). Later, as host of the Misery symbiote: superhuman strength/speed/agility/durability, wall-crawling, organic webbing, shapeshifting/camouflage, and undetectability to Spider-Man's spider-sense.

Affiliations. Midtown High School (student); Osborn family (wife of Harry Osborn, mother of Normie Osborn); Alchemax (CEO); later identity Misery

★ First appearance
Amazing Fantasy #15
Sep 1962

Trivia

  • Barry Allen's surname carries a genuine publication-history quirk that collectors have debated for decades — early appearances and period coverage render it 'Allen,' while later material and fan references occasionally spell it 'Allan,' making this a long-running continuity inconsistency rather than any single authoritative spelling.marvel.fandom.com
  • Stan Lee has written more of Liz Allan's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 43 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years — 1963–2022

The Amazing Spider-Man #4 1963
The Amazing Spider-Man #4
The Amazing Spider-Man #143 1975
The Amazing Spider-Man #143
The Amazing Spider-Man #166 1977
The Amazing Spider-Man #166
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16 1982
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23 1989
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23
The Very Best of Spider-Man #[nn] 1994
The Very Best of Spider-Man #[nn]
Amazing Fantasy #16 1995
Amazing Fantasy #16
The Amazing Spider-Man #20 2000
The Amazing Spider-Man #20
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man - Barnes & Noble Edition #3 2004
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man - Barnes & Noble Edition #3
Amazing Spider-Man Family #3 2009
Amazing Spider-Man Family #3
Superior Spider-Man #17 2013
Superior Spider-Man #17
Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude #[nn] 2017
Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude #[nn]
The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus #1 [Fifth Edition] 2022
The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus #1 [Fifth Edition]

Appearances (1–150 of 311, oldest first)

Amazing Fantasy (1962)
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964)
Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (1965)
#1
Hit Comics (1966)
#3
Pow! (1967)
#1
HIP Comics (1966)
Pow! and Wham! (1968)
#72
Marvel (1970)
Spider-Man Comics Weekly (1973)
Die Spinne (1974)
#1
The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual (1979)
#3
Marvel Tales (1966)
O Espectacular Homem-Aranha (1983)
Spider-Man Annual (1979)
Marvel Masterworks (1987)
#10
The Amazing Spider-Man [Shan-Lon] (1990)
The Exploits of Spider-Man (1992)
The Very Best of Spider-Man (1994)
Spider-Man Megazine (1994)
Spider-Man: Clone Genesis (1995)
Untold Tales of Spider-Man (1995)
Sensational Spider-Man '96 (1996)
#1
Best of Marvel (1994)
The Essential Spider-Man (1996)
#2
Spider-Man (1997)
Untold Tales of Spider-Man: Strange Encounters (1998)
#1
Spider-Man: Chapter One (1998)
Marvel Special (1997)
Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man (1999)
Spider-Girl (1998)
Der sensationelle Spider-Man (1998)
#15
Ultimate Spider-Man (2000)
Ultimate Spider-Man: Power and Responsibility (2001)
Fantastic Firsts (2002)
Ultimate Spider-Man [Target] (2002)
Spider-Man : l'intégrale (2002)
Wizard Ace Edition: Amazing Spider-Man #14 (2002)