Review - The Amazing Spider-Man #600 by Marvel Comics

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #600
July 2009
$4.99
Rated A - Appropriate for ages 9 and up.
Published by Marvel Comics

Writers: Dan Scott (1), Stan Lee (2), Mark Waid (3), Bob Gale (4), Mark Guggenheim (5), Zeb Wells (6), Kelly (7)
Artwork: John Romita Jr. (1), Marcos Martin (2), Colleen Doran (3), Mario Alberti (4), Mitch Breitweiser (5)Derec Donovan (6), Fiumara (7)
Inks: Klaus Janson (1)
Colors: Dean White (1), Javier Rodriguez (2), Jose Villarrubia (3), Elizabeth Breitweiser (5), Antonio Fabela (6), Chuckry (7)
Lettering: VC’s Joe Caramanga (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7), Jared K. Fletcher (4)
Covers You’ll Never See: Loeb & McKone (1st), Brubaker & McKone (2nd), Fraction & McKone (3rd), Bendis & Janson (4th)

1 – Last Legs
2 – Identity Crisis
3 – My Brother’s Son
4 – If I Were Spider-Man
5 – The Blessing
6 – Fight at the Museum
7 – Violent Visions
The above artists can be matched up with the title numbers to see who participated on what sub story.

At over 100 pages and seven stories plus Cover’s You’ll Never See The Amazing Spider-Man #600 is packed from cover to cover and well worth the $4.99 cover price. If you like variant covers then The Amazing Spider-Man will have you chasing down two regular covers and two wrap around covers.

Once inside the cover you will find seven different stories, yes most are around five pages or so, but the main story ends at 62 pages. The one addition that most issues don’t have is the “Covers You Will Never See”. This is a series of four different covers that would never appear on The Amazing Spider-Man, and that is too bad as the last would have made a great cross over title.

The main story is about the wedding of Aunt May and J. Jonah Jameson Sr. But Doc Ock has other plans and takes control of the city and tries to stop the wedding, while he wants to kill Spider-Man. Spider-Man gets help from The Avengers w/Wolverine.

As Spidey is leaving the job to the Avengers two of his female friends are taken hostage by Doc Ock. Spider-Man enlists help from the Fantastic Four. When he arrives at the Baxter Building Mr. Fantastic already has a device that he thinks will block the probes from transmitting so Johnny goes with Spider-Man and they find Carlie Cooper Norah Winters and Jameson Sr. tied up and all with their own pair of Doc Ock arms.
After a battle with the bad doc Spidey finds a device and is able to retake control of the city. With the city back under control everything starts to fall back into place for the Aunt May/Jameson wedding, with one change, now Mayor J. Jonah Jameson Jr. At the end of the wedding there is one last surprise. A name from the past is back. Who? Buy the issue to find out.

After the main story the issue is packed with some entertaining features. There are four covers scattered throughout the end of the issue. Also inside are stories that are similar to What If?...

The first short story is Identity Crisis. In this story Spider-Man goes to a psychiatrist and he opens up about his personality conflicts with all the different Spidy’s that he has been from multiple appendages, to the black costume that would become Venom, and even Spider-Ham is here.

My Brother’s Son is the second short and is about what Uncle Ben went through when he and Aunt May took responsibility for a young Peter Parker after his parents were killed in a plane crash.

The third story is If I Were Spider-Man, and it is about two young boys talking about what they would do if they were Spider-Man. They discuss back and fourth about the good and bad if they were Spider-Man and if they would reveal themselves to the public.

The main story was about Aunt May’s wedding and in The Blessing, the fourth short we find Aunt May at the grave side of her late husband Ben and talking to him and asking for his approval to marry again.

Fight at The Museum is a comedic short story and we find Peter Parker at the Smithsonian National Design Museum and a crowd is making fun of Spider-Man’s old Spider-Dune Buggy.

The final short is Violent Visions and it will be continues all year long in Amazing Spider-Man. The story is about the “Great” Madame Webb and as she sits on her web she is attacked. To see how this story ends keep reading Amazing Spider-Man all year.

Cover Art (1-5): 4.5 – With several different covers to choose from the artwork is good but the mainstream version has a classic Spidey swinging through the buildings.
Art (1-5): 4 – The art overall is “Amazing” throughout all the stories.
Story (1-5): 4 – There are a total of seven stories so you should be able to find one you like.