I put this issue in the Pérez checklist, but it's not really a "must have" item. Similarly like OFFICIAL TEEN TITANS INDEX #5 is not crucial to your collection, but it is worth a small mention.

FANTASTIC FOUR #500 (Director's Cut Edition) is the first time that a comic book has extra material, like the popular "Director's Cut/Special Edition" DVDs. There's 15 pages of extra material: "Deleted Scenes", sketch designs, "Outakes", Fred Hembeck's "Fantastic Five... Hundred, That Is!!", process of putting a comic book together, Stan Lee's original synopsis for FF #1, and a "Printography".

The Printography reprints all previous 499 covers of the Fantastic Four, over three pages. Obviously in order to fit all the covers the reprints of each cover is about 3 by 5 cm.

Here is a small portion of the Printography:

George Pérez did the following FF covers:

Fantastic Four #183 (CP)

Fantastic Four #184 (CP, IP)

Fantastic Four #185 (CP, IP)

Fantastic Four #186 (CP, IP)

Fantastic Four #187 (CP, IP)

Fantastic Four #188 (CP, IP)

Fantastic Four #191 (CP, IP)

Fantastic Four #192 (CP, IP)

Fantastic Four #194 (CA)

Fantastic Four #195 (CP)

Fantastic Four #196 (CP)

Fantastic Four #197 (CP)