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FREE SPIDER-MAN: LIZARD - NO TURNING BACK PDF Kurt Busiek,Dan Slott,Giuseppe Camuncoli | 112 pages | 09 Apr 2013 | Marvel Comics | 9780785160083 | English | New York, United States SPIDER-MAN LIZARD TP NO TURNING BACK - MaltaComics The Amazing Spider-Man. Spider-Man and Morbius team-up to face the Lizard. We've long been anticipating Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back return of the Lizard to the pages of The Amazing Spider-Manand Marvel has fueled that fire with the first look at some awesome pages from Amazing Spideythe first chapter of the new story arc called No Turning Back. When someone tampers with the grave of Billy Connors, Spider-Man and Morbius hunt down the beast formerly known as Curt Connors for answers. We talked with Dan Slott about No Turning Back a few months ago, and since then, we've been chomping at the bits. It doesn't hurt that the Lizard is about to make his big screen debut, either. Was this article informative? YES NO. In This Article. Summary: The long-running series follows the amazing adventures of the most famous web- slinger of all time. Part of Marvel's epic '60s arrival that heralded a new age for comics, the Amazing Spider-Man ended it's run in lateonly to Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back relaunched two months later with the same name, but starting with Amazing Spider-Man 1. That Spider- Man: Lizard - No Turning Back system lastest several years, but reverted back to the original numbering with issue Platforms: Print. Publishers: Marvel Comics. Release Date: May 1, IGN Logo Recommends. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: LIZARD - NO TURNING BACK HC NEW MARVEL | eBay The Lizard Dr. Curtis " Curt " Connors is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Lizard is primarily depicted as a Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back alternate personality of Connors, who takes over his mind and evolves after each transformation, slowly becoming the predominant personality. Despite Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back, the Lizard has also been portrayed as an antihero and ally of Spider-Man in various instances. Connors is Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back an ally of Spider-Man just as himself, and not necessarily as his alter ego. He is also the husband of Martha Connorsand the father of Billy Connors. In the comics, Curt Connors is a geneticist who researched the ability of certain reptiles to regrow missing limbs, and developed a serum that would allow humans to do the same, using lizard DNA as the basis. However, when he decided to test it on himself, hoping to regenerate his missing right arm, he transformed into a feral anthropomorphic lizard. While Spider-Man was able to restore him back to normal, the Lizard remained part of Connors' subconscious, and would be unleashed time and time again to wreak more havoc and try to establish himself as the dominant personality. The Lizard's general goal is to replace the world's population with creatures like himself, while Connors attempts to keep his reptilian alter ego under control and find a way to be rid Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back him for good; in some reinterpretations, Connors is able to control his transformation, and only uses the Lizard as an excuse to commit heinous crimes himself. The character has appeared in numerous Spider-Man adaptations, including films, animated series, and video games. Dee Bradley Baker is the most frequent actor to provide the character's voice. He was a gifted surgeon who enlisted in the U. He performed emergency battlefield surgery on wounded GIs. However his right arm was terribly injured in a wartime blast, resulting in its amputation. After his return to civilian life as a research technologist, Connors became obsessed with uncovering the secrets of reptilian limb regeneration. Working from his home in the Florida Everglades with the help of war buddy Ted Sallishe finally developed an experimental serum taken from reptilian DNA. He Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back the formula and he did indeed grow a new arm. However, the formula had an unfortunate side effect : Connors was subsequently transformed into a reptilian humanoid monster. After discovering the Lizard's true identity and origin, Spider-Man used Connors' notes to create an antidote to restore him to his human form and mentality. He was able to repay Spider-Man by developing a formula to save May Parker's life after Peter Parker had given his aunt his radioactive blood during a transfusion, unintentionally putting Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back in mortal peril. A repeating pattern soon occurred, with stress or a chemical reaction turning Connors into the Lizard, Spider-Man fighting him, and then forcing him to swallow the antidote in order to reverse the transformation until the next time. A second personality had formed with the Lizard, one with the familiar goal shared by many villains of taking over the world. The Lizard envisioned a world where all humans had been transformed into or replaced by super-reptiles like himself. Despite the Lizard's overall hatred of humans, he was often shown to be unwilling to harm his wife Martha or young son Billy. As Connors, he aided Spider-Man in defeating the Rhino by developing a formula to dissolve the Rhino's bulletproof hide, but accidentally transformed himself into the Lizard due to exposure to the chemicals needed to create the formula and was restored by Spider-Man. During another encounter with Spider-Man after Peter's attempts to remove his powers resulted in him growing four extra armsa bite from Morbius endowed the Lizard with Connors' personality via the infection of a strange enzyme. Connors then synthesized an antidote for himself and Spider-Man using the Morbius enzyme. Connors determined that Spider-Man was not a clone. During this time, Spider-Man and Connors dealt with one of Connors' previous experiments in the form of the Iguana. During the first of the Secret Warsthe Lizard refused to participate on either side of the conflict. Although he was collected by the Beyonder along with other villains, he broke away from the main group after the first battle to settle in a swamp, where he befriended the Waspwho had helped him treat an injury that he had sustained in the first battle. After the Lizard was blasted by the magic of the Enchantresshe reverted to human form. The Lizard had apparently been affected by inter- dimensional teleportation so that Connors' mind presided over the Lizard, and he battled Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back Owl alongside Spider-Man. Connors then tried to straighten out his life and control the Lizard, with some degree of success. This ended when the villainess Calypso used her voodoo magic to take control of the Lizard during the Torment storyline for her own purposes, reducing him to a mindless, savage state. After a series of bloody battles, the Lizard and Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back were defeated by Spider-Man, and Spider-Man assumed that he perished under Calypso's spell. Curt carried out a plan to cure himself temporarily, [24] after which he voluntarily submitted to incarceration in the supervillain prison the Vault. After this escape, the Lizard fell and sank into a quicksand pit during a battle in the Everglades with Spider-Man and the bounty hunter Warrant and was believed to have died. Later, a huge bestial Lizard appeared, [27] shortly after Connors was called in to investigate Peter Parker's sudden sickness the result of Peter's recently lost spider-powers returning. Spider-Man Ben Reilly realized that not only had the Lizard survived, but revealed later his new monstrous transformation seemed to be permanent and the personality of Curt Connors appeared completely lost. However, when this savage mindless Lizard later unexpectedly encountered Dr. Connors himself while Connors was helping Peter, Curt became the true Lizard once again and saved his family by killing the "Lizard-clone". It was revealed that the Lizard-clone was Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back scientific accident resulting from an experimental formula being tested on a piece of the original Lizard's tail, which had then grown into a fully formed second creature. Although reunited after Curt's apparent death, Martha and Billy were diagnosed with cancer after being exposed to carcinogens from living near an industrial lab in Florida. Spider-Man assisted Curt in successfully forcing Monnano, the lab's owner, to admit culpability, Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back Martha died from her cancer. Curt's guilt and internalized anger led him to become the Lizard once again, and once human, Curt attempted a bank robbery so that he would be sent to prison. The Sinister Twelve were defeated and captured by the combined forces of Daredevilthe Fantastic Fourand the Avengers. The Lizard resurfaced to face Spider-Man with the aid of Billy Connors, who was changed into an adolescent Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back by his father. Billy's transformational ability has been ignored since. Connors has also monitored the progress of the hero Komodoa female grad student who stole a sample of Connors' Lizard formula. She modified the formula for her own DNA Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back grow back her missing legs and to give herself Spider-Man: Lizard - No Turning Back powers. Doctor Curt Connors appeared in the Brand New Day storyline, where he experimented with animal stem cells as well as aiding forensic specialist Carlie Cooper. The third Freak mistook Connors' stem cells experiment for drugs. Connors helped Spider-Man defeat the Freak during their second encounter.