Marvel Tales #57

Marvel Tales #57 brings Spider-Man face-to-face with one of his most formidable reptilian foes in a rooftop brawl rendered vividly on this John Romita cover — Spidey lands a crackling punch against the Lizard, whose scaly green tail and clawed hands make him a genuinely unsettling threat against the New York City skyline. The tagline "The Lizard Lives!" sets a suitably dramatic tone for the Stan Lee–scripted story inside, with interior art by John Buscema and Jim Mooney bringing it all to life. At just 25 cents in 1975, this reprint series offered Marvel fans a terrific way to revisit the wall-crawler's most thrilling confrontations.