OK, I've read a couple of Lizard-related articles lately, and unfortunately I've got some complaints about both of them...
First complaint:
The Science of Supervillains, by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg, 2005
Part of the continuing series of "The Science of..." books, which include scientific examinations of the universes of Star Trek, Star Wars, superheroes and others. I was excited to find out that there's an entire chapter devoted to the Lizard, so I ordered a copy from Amazon.
Chapter seven, "Leapin' Lizards: The Lizard" focuses almost entirely on Dr. Connors' research to grow back missing limbs on humans and whether this might someday be possible. Interesting stuff to be sure, but I was hoping for a scientific look at the Lizard's actual transformation, such as the mechanics of growing a tail and how long such a thing might take. Alas, no such luck. Maybe that kind of thing was covered in a scientific look at the Hulk or something.
Another frustrating thing was that the authors kept referring to the Lizard's origin story from ASM #6 by the title "First Lizard". The actual title of that Spidey story is "Face to Face with the Lizard". Research, people.
Second complaint:
The Classic Marvel Figurine Collection Magazine #52 : The Lizard
This is a pretty cool series of magazines from England that each come with a 3 inch metal miniature of the character being profiled. I recently got the Lizard issue of course, and as I started reading the mag, I wondered if the UK writers were going to get all the Lizard's history right. To their credit, they did pretty good up until the more recent Lizard stories.
But, in describing the story where Martha Connors died of cancer (Spider-Man: Quality of Life #4, Oct 2002), these writers apparently missed the part where Billy's cancer was caught in time and completely removed. So they claim that Curt injected Billy with the Lizard formula in Sensational Spider-Man 24 (May 2006) to try and save him from his cancer. As anyone who actually read that story knows, Curt injected Billy because his mind was under the influence of an energized meteor rock used by Stegron the dinosaur man.
See, if these writers would just come to me first, they could avoid these embarrassing errors.