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Billy Connors
Billy Connors as Lizard Jr. as seen in The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5 #16 (April 2019). Art by Alberto Jiménez Alburquerque (penciller/inker) and Laura Martin, Brian Reber, and Carlos Lopez (colorists).
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (Nov. 1963)
Created by	Stan Lee (writer) Steve Ditko (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	William Connors
Species	Human Mutate
Team affiliations	New U Technologies
Notable aliases	Lizard Jr.
Abilities	As a lizard: Superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, durability, and reflexes Regenerative healing factor Hardened scale-like skin Razor-sharp claws and teeth Powerful tail

William "Billy" Connors is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is usually depicted as a supporting character of Spider-Man, and the son of Dr. Curt Connors, also known as the Lizard. Much of his character's story deals with the trauma of his father's uncontrollable powers. Billy was later injected with Curt's Lizard Formula to cure him of a deadly virus, which also mutated him into an anthropomorphic lizard.

Publication history

The character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (November 1963).

Fictional character biography

Billy was born in Florida to Curt and Martha Connors, the former of whom is a biologist. After Curt transforms into the Lizard, he attacks and attempts to eat Billy before Spider-Man returns him to normal.

In subsequent appearances, Billy is menaced by the Lizard and other villains before moving in with his aunt after Martha dies from cancer. During The Gauntlet and Grim Hunt storyline, Billy is killed and eaten by the Lizard. Years later, Ben Reilly resurrects him and Martha in Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy.

The two are later infected with the Carrion virus and turned into Lizards to save their lives. During the Hunted storyline, Kraven the Hunter captures Billy to test his cloned "offspring", the Last Son of Kraven.

Other versions

Ultimate Marvel

An alternate universe variant of Billy Connors from Earth-1610 appears in Ultimate Marvel.

What If?

An alternate universe variant of Billy Connors who became a separate incarnation of the Lizard appears in What If? vol. 2 #53.

In other media

Television

• Billy Connors, renamed Billy Conner, appears in Spider-Man (1967), voiced by Billie Mae Richards.
• Billy Connors appears in Spider-Man (1994), voiced by Toby Ganger.
• Billy Connors appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man, voiced by Max Burkholder.

Film

Billy Connors appears in a deleted scene that was cut from The Amazing Spider-Man, portrayed by Miles Elliot.

References

1. The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (November 1963)
2. • The Amazing Spider-Man #74-77 (July - October 1969)
   • The Amazing Spider-Man #165-166 (February - March 1977)
   • The Sensational Spider-Man (vol. 2) #24 - 27 (May - August 2006)
   • Spider-Man: Quality of Life #4 (October 2002)
   • The Amazing Spider-Man #631 (July 2010)
   • The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 4) #4 (February 2016)
3. The Clone Conspiracy #5 (April 2017)
4. The Clone Conspiracy Omega one-shot (May 2017)
5. The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 5) #14-15 (April - May 2019)
6. The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 5) #21 (July 2019)
7. Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #10 (January 2002)
8. What If? (vol. 2) #53 (September 1993)
9. ^ "Billy Connors Voices (Spider-Man)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved August 17, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
10. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "DR CURT CONNORS AND HIS SON BILLY [DELETED SCENE] THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN". YouTube. July 2013.

External links

• Billy Connors at Marvel Wiki

• Anthropomorphic lizards
• Characters created by Stan Lee
• Characters created by Steve Ditko
• Comics characters introduced in 1963
• Fictional characters from Florida
• Fictional human–animal hybrids
• Fictional reptilians
• Marvel Comics animals
• Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
• Marvel Comics characters with accelerated healing
• Marvel Comics characters with superhuman durability or invulnerability
• Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength
• Marvel Comics hybrids
• Marvel Comics mutates
• Spider-Man characters