The Amazing Spider-Man #592

Name: The Amazing Spider-Man #592
Brand: Marvel
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Jun 2009 · Marvel · 2.99 USD

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“24/7”

★ 1st appearance — Michele Gonzales

About this Issue

Amazing Spider-Man #592 carries its key-issue status primarily as the first appearance of James Natale, a radically reimagined Vulture who is biologically transformed rather than tech-suited — sporting real wings, a blood-red coloration, acidic venom, and a predatory appetite for criminals that made him a genuinely unsettling departure from the Adrian Toomes template. Beyond that debut, the issue opens the '24/7' arc, one of the sharpest comedic-dramatic premises of the Brand New Day era: Spider-Man responds to J. Jonah Jameson's election as Mayor of New York by resolving to be a superhero around the clock, turning Jameson's newly acquired institutional power into a source of public embarrassment for him rather than a weapon against the wall-crawler. It also introduces the NYPD's Anti-Spider Squad as a formal in-universe body, escalating the Spider-Man-as-fugitive dynamic to a new civic level that would reverberate through subsequent story arcs.

writer Mark Waid · artist Mike McKone · inker Andy Lanning · colorist Jeromy Cox · letterer VC's Joe Caramagna · cover Joe Quesada, Danny Miki

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History

The issue was written by Mark Waid — serving his second rotation on the title as part of the Brand New Day 'Spider-Brain Trust' of rotating writers — and penciled by Mike McKone, with inks by Andy Lanning and colors by Jeromy Cox. Editor Stephen Wacker oversaw the issue under executive editor Tom Brevoort and editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, the same editorially aggressive team that had restructured the thrice-monthly Amazing Spider-Man publishing schedule following One More Day. The story grew directly out of the prior Dan Slott arc in which Peter spent two months in the Macroverse with the Fantastic Four, a device that let the editorial team skip the mechanics of Jameson's mayoral campaign and deliver his election as an accomplished-fact shock on Peter's return. Waid's '24/7' arc was his second contribution to Brand New Day, following an earlier two-issue run that had reintroduced the Shocker and first introduced Jay Jameson, Sr.

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First appearance of James Natale as the new Vulture — a mob-engineered, biologically altered killer with organic wings, acidic venom-spitting, and a red color scheme, distinguishing him sharply from the classic Adrian Toomes version.
First appearance of the NYPD Anti-Spider Squad, a Jameson-created police unit dedicated full-time to capturing Spider-Man, formalizing the hero's outlaw status at a municipal government level.
Written by Mark Waid (his second arc in the Brand New Day rotation) and penciled by Mike McKone, inked by Andy Lanning, colored by Jeromy Cox, and lettered by Joe Caramagna; cover by Joe Quesada and Danny Miki.
The issue opens the three-part '24/7' arc (issues #592–594), in which Spider-Man's response to Mayor Jameson's hostility is to be a non-stop, maximum-visibility hero — deliberately flooding the press with positive Spider-Man coverage to torment Jameson from the bully pulpit.
Peter Parker discovers Aunt May in bed with Jay Jameson Sr. at the issue's cliffhanger — a comedic shock ending that became one of the most discussed moments of the Brand New Day run.
Michele Gonzales makes a cameo appearance, seeding a subplot about the mystery housesitter cleaning Peter's apartment during his two-month absence.
The issue was published on a thrice-monthly schedule as part of the post-Brand New Day era, with the direct edition cover by Quesada and a 1:10 retailer-incentive 'Wolverine Art Appreciation' variant cover by Paolo Rivera (an homage to the work of Salvador Dalí).
Reprinted in: Spider-Man: 24/7 TPB (2009), Spider-Man: Brand New Day – The Complete Collection Vol. 4 (2017), the Spider-Man: Brand New Day Omnibus Vol. 2 (2025), and international editions in Finnish and UK markets.