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The Amazing Spider-Man #77

Name: The Amazing Spider-Man #77
Brand: Marvel
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Oct 1969 · Marvel · 0.15 USD

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“In the Blaze of Battle!”

★ 1st appearance — Maxine Danger

About this Issue

Amazing Spider-Man #77 (October 1969) is a textbook example of late Silver Age Marvel's shared-universe storytelling at its most kinetic: the issue stages a three-way conflict between Spider-Man, the Human Torch, and the Lizard that forces Spider-Man to fight on two fronts simultaneously — protecting both the public from a feral Curt Connors and Connors himself from a well-meaning but dangerously aggressive Johnny Storm. The moral engine of the story — Spidey insisting that the Lizard is a sick man who deserves to be cured, not incinerated — is one of the cleaner expressions of the compassionate-hero ethos Stan Lee had been building throughout the run, and it anticipates the empathy-driven superhero narratives that would define the Bronze Age. The issue also marks the sixth appearance of the Lizard, cementing Curt Connors as a recurring Spider-Man antagonist whose tragedy, unlike most villains of the era, never fully resolved. Editorially, the Bullpen Bulletins in this very issue carried Stan Lee's announcement that Marvel was abandoning multi-part continued stories — a shift whose immediate creative effects can be felt in the issues that follow.

writer, artist John Buscema · writer Stan Lee · artist, inker Jim Mooney · letterer Sam Rosen · cover John Romita

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History

The issue's production followed the collaborative workflow John Buscema used across his 1969 Spider-Man assignments: Buscema supplied the plot and full page layouts, with Stan Lee scripting over them and Jim Mooney finishing the interior pencils and inks — a division of labor confirmed across the Grand Comics Database, Marvel.com, and MyComicShop records for this run (ASM #76–81). The cover was painted separately by John Romita Sr., who was the series' regular cover artist at the time even when not handling interiors. The letters column contains an early published letter from Donald F. McGregor, who would go on to write groundbreaking work such as Panther's Rage and Killraven for Marvel in the Bronze Age — a small footnote that collectors of that later era have noted with interest.

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Published October 1969 (cover-dated October 1969) by Marvel Comics; cover price 15¢ US / 1/- UK.
Story title: 'In the Blaze of Battle!' — Part 2 of a two-part Lizard arc begun in ASM #76.
Interior credits: plot by John Buscema, script by Stan Lee, pencil layouts by John Buscema, finished pencils and inks by Jim Mooney, letters by Sam Rosen; cover art by John Romita Sr.
Features the sixth overall appearance of the Lizard (Curt Connors) in the Marvel Universe; his next appearance in ASM would not come until issue #101 (October 1971).
Spider-Man defeats the Lizard by applying a calcium-chloride dehydrating powder, reverting him to Curt Connors — a rare science-based resolution for the era.
The issue's Bullpen Bulletins carried Stan Lee's editorial announcement that Marvel was ending its policy of multi-issue continued stories, a structural shift felt immediately in subsequent issues.
The letters page includes a published letter from Donald F. McGregor, then just a fan, who would later become a significant Marvel writer of the 1970s.
Reprinted domestically in Marvel Tales #58 (April 1975) and internationally in Marvel UK's Spider-Man Comics Weekly #94–95 (November–December 1974), as well as in the Essential Spider-Man Vol. 4 trade paperback and the Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 3.