Spider-Man and his black-suit counterpart Venom have a long, complex history. Let's look back to the very beginning.
Marvel might have an ever-expanding list of exciting characters to choose from, but it’s really hard to deny that Spider-Man is clearly the most popular of the bunch. The success of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco confirmed that Spidey was just as beloved on screen as he was the page, eventually leading to another adaptation with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in The Amazing Spider-Man.
But Tom Hardy’s iteration of Venom was not the first time we saw this sinister symbiote on screen. Topher Grace also played Eddie Brock, a Daily Bugle employee that quickly becomes Peter Parker’s rival, in Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. After detaching from Peter, the alien symbiote collectively known as Venom chooses Eddie as its new host. This portrayal of the Venom and Spider-Man origin story and relationship greatly mirrors that of the comic book.
So, what’s this symbiote all about? Spider-Man first comes in contact with it in issue #8 of a 12-issue limited event series known as Secret Wars.
Technically, Eddie’s first appearance is in Web of Spider-Man #18 in 1986, when his hand is shown shoving Peter onto train tracks . Peter is concerned as to why his Spidey senses didn’t alert him. It turns out, the alien symbiote had drained some of his powers when it used him as host. At the end of The Amazing Spider-Man #298, we see a man examining stories about Spider-Man he attached to a wall.
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