The Amazing Spider-Man
#500
[Direct Edition]
(December 2003)
Marvel,
1999 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 3.50 USD; 5.75 CAD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except semi-monthly in October
- On-sale Date
- 2003-10-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- PSR
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [in horizontal box]
- Barcode
- 759606047161 50011
- Printer
- Printed in the USA
- Editing
- Axel Alonso (credited) (editor); John Miesegaes (credited) (assistant editor); Warren Simons (credited) (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
Double-Sized 500th Issue! With this issue THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN returns to its old numbering from the 1963 series.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[Double Sized 500th Issue!]
Spider-Man / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- J. Scott Campbell (signed as
Campbell [3-line-E]) - Inks
- Tim Townsend (signed as
TOWNSEND) - Colors
- Dan Kemp (signed as ...)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Chameleon [Dmitri Smerdyakov]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]; Electro [Max Dillon]; Green Goblin [Norman Osborn]; Hydro-Man [Morrie Bench]; Kraven the Hunter [Sergei Kravinoff]; Lizard [Curt Connors]; Morbius [Michael Morbius]; Morlun; Mysterio [Quentin Beck]; Mary Jane Parker; Rhino [Aleksei Sytsevich]; Sandman [Flint Marko]; Scorpion [Mac Gargan]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Venom [Eddie Brock]; Vermin [Edward Whelan]; Vermin
- Reprints
-
in Spider-Man (Egmont, 1999 series) #7/2004 ([Juli] 2004), #7/2004 ([Juli] 2004) -
in Spider-Man (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1999 series) #7/2004 ([juli] 2004), #7/2004 ([juli] 2004) -
in Marvel : Les Incontournables (Panini France, 2008 series) #1 [album] (Mars 2008) -
in Amazing Spider-Man by JMS Ultimate Collection (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2009), #2 (2009) [Artwork only], #2 (2009) [Artwork only] - in Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018) [new trade dress]
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Happy Birthday Part Three
Spider-Man / comic story / 38 pages
- Script
- J. Michael Straczynski (credited)
- Pencils
- John Romita (credited) (pages 35-38); John Romita Jr. (credited) (pages 1-34)
- Inks
- Scott Hanna (credited)
- Colors
- Avalon Studios (credited as Avalon)
- Letters
- Randolph Gentile of Virtual Calligraphy (as Virtual Calligraphy's Randy Gentile) (credited as Digital Calligraphy's Randy Gentile)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Baron Mordo; Beetle [Abner Jenkins] (on big double splash page); Bennett Brant (in dream sequence); Betty Brant (in dream sequence); Carnage [Cletus Kasady] (on big double splash page); Chameleon [Dmitri Smerdyakov] (on big double splash page); Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom] (on big double splash page); Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius] (on big double splash page); Electro [Max Dillon] (in dream sequence); Green Goblin [Norman Osborn] (in dream sequence); Hobgoblin [Roderick Kingsley] (on big double splash page); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (in dream sequence); Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; J. Jonah Jameson (in dream sequence); Juggernaut [Cain Marko] (on big double splash page); Kingpin [Wilson Fisk] (on big double splash page); Kraven the Hunter [Sergei Kravinoff] (on big double splash page); Lizard [Curt Connors] (in dream sequence); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Molten Man [Mark Raxton] (on big double splash page); Morbius [Michael Morbius] (on big double splash page); Morlun (on big double splash page); Mysterio [Quentin Beck] (in dream sequence); Ox [Raymond Bloch] (on big double splash page); Aunt May Parker; Ben Parker (apparition); Mary Jane Parker; Punisher [Frank Castle] (on big double splash page); Rhino [Aleksei Sytsevich] (on big double splash page); Sandman [Flint Marko] (in dream sequence); Scorpion [Mac Gargan] (on big double splash page); Shadrac [Greg Herd] (on big double splash page); Shocker [Herman Schultz] (on big double splash page); Spencer Smythe (on big double splash page); Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Gwen Stacy (in dream sequence); Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Thor; Tinkerer [Phineas Mason] (on big double splash page); Venom [Eddie Brock] (on big double splash page); The Vulture [Adrian Toomes] (in dream sequence); Lieutenant Lamont; Headmaster (on big double splash page)
- Reprints
- in Spider-Man (Egmont, 1999 series) #7/2004 ([Juli] 2004)
- in Spider-Man (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1999 series) #7/2004 ([juli] 2004)
- in Amazing Spider-Man by JMS Ultimate Collection (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2009)
- in Je suis Spider-Man (Panini France, 2014 series) (avril 2014)
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Indexer Notes
Story continued from The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1999 series) #58.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Double Sized 500th Issue!]
Spider-Man -
1.
Happy Birthday Part Three
Spider-Man -
2.
[House Advertisement]
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3.
[Ads]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Björn Eklöf
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Matthias Hofmann
- Adam Knights
- Derek Reinhard
- Eric Rom
- Ramon Schenk
- Gino Scola
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