![]() Brock was on the verge of suicide in a church tower when the symbiote, who had been left for dead there by Spider-Man in the inaugural issue of his third “B” title, Web of Spider-Man, overwhelmed him - saving his life but fueling him with power and hatred in the process (he was also able to provide Brock with Spider-Man’s secret identity, allowing the psychopath to hunt Peter’s family and friends down in a show of dominance). So for Amazing Spider-Man #300, which Marvel’s editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco had wanted to be a big deal, Michelinie and artist Todd McFarlane created Eddie Brock, a disgraced newspaper journalist who was publicly humiliated after misreporting the identity of the serial killer from “The Death of Jean DeWolff” fame, the Sin-Eater. And let’s be honest, comic book readers in the late-1980s probably wouldn’t have accepted a female villainess as someone who could take out Spider-Man anyway (if you could even argue that they would accept such a premise today). ![]() Marvel’s editorial team inevitably sided against the idea of a female Venom deeming it was scintillating enough. What if, he proposed, the alien symbiote that Spider-Man/Peter Parker had rejected in Amazing Spider-Man #258 (and again in Web of Spider-Man #1 ) had bonded with a human who equally had an axe to grind with Spider-Man? For Michelinie, that person was a pregnant woman, who tragically lost both her unborn child and her husband, when they were involved in a car accident that was indirectly caused by the chaos that typically follows a Spider-Man battle in the friendly neighborhood streets of New York. In the days following the birth of the symbiote and the “black suit” Spider-Man, comic book creator David Michelinie had an idea for a new villain that has an air of familiarity to it, despite the fact that it never saw the light of day. ![]() With the recent news that the Venom symbiote is returning to its original owner, Eddie Brock, SuperiorSpiderTalk is going to chart the tumultuous journey of this alien goo from its humble beginnings to its current phenom status today.Įddie Brock was not always destined to be merged with the alien symbiote, but he is unquestionably the character who is most associated with being the sometimes supervillain/sometimes anti-hero named Venom.
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