Comic book history can be funny, not in the laugh out loud funny. But in the: That’s pathetic storytelling writing.

Way back in Amazing Spider-Man #400 Aunt May told Peter she knew he was Spider-Man. And that she’d have been a fool not to have figured it out.

But then she died. Only to return, because the one who died was another woman completely, who only looked like Aunt May. And Norman Osborn hired this actress and gave her the information about Peter being Spider-Man.

(Read that last paragraph again. I’m not joking. That’s how it was explained away.) And YES the obvious question is: What kind of fool would not know his own family members and could be tricked like that.

A case of Pure Stupid writing. No other way around it. To explain away Aunt May dying and her knowing Peter’s identity.

Then in Amazing Spider-Man (volume 2) #35, #38 Aunt May discovers Peter unconscious all bloody from a battle, in his Spider-Man costume. And learned once again Peter was Spider-Man.
So what happens?

She gets shot, almost dies and thanks to the help of the Devil as in Marvel’s version with Mephisto, she gets better. And forgets Peter Parker is Spider-Man again.

So as it stands currently, Aunt May does not know Peter Parker is Spider-Man.

Even though it’s been shown twice, she can handle the truth.

And once again the “magic reset button” is hit. Characters return to status quo, and cannot grow. While we witness more examples of the comic book mantra of “the illusion of change”.

Where what seems permanent and real, can be in the next issue be wiped out and made undone, with no consequences and things returning to a state of decades ago.

Example like this show in a bad way, storytelling that is not funny, but rather pathetic.