VENOM

APPEARANCE

Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 260 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Reddish Blond
Features: As Venom, Brock has an elongated jaw, teeth, and tounge which are really part of the alien costume

SUMMARY

Real Name: Edward "Eddie" Brock
Other Current Aliases: None
Former Aliases: None
Dual Identity: Known to local authorites
Current Occupation: Vigilante
Former Occupation: Journalist for the Daily Globe
Citizenship: United States of America
Legal Status: Criminal record in U.S.
Place of Birth: San-Fransico, California
Marital Status: Divorced
Known Relatives: Carol Brock(father), Anne Weying(ex-wife)
Known Confidants: "Beck"
Known Allies: Spider-Man, Morbius, Vengence
Major Enemies: Spider-Man, Carnage, Life Foundation, Juggernaut, Scarlet-Spider
Usual Base of Operations: San-Fransico, California
Former Base of Operations: New York City
Current Group Membership: None
Former Group Membership: None
Extent of Education: BA in Journalism

POWERS AND PARAPHENALIA

Strength Level: 11 tons under optimal contditons
Powers: Brock's powers stem from his symbiotic relationship w/ the alien that serves as his costume. The symbiote can mimic any type of clothing whatsoever, as well as blending Venom in their surroundings, rendering them invisible. The symbiote has augmented all of Brock's physical abilities too superhuman levels equal to, and in some cases greater than, Spider-Man's.
Abilities: Venom also possesses the ability to adhere to most sufaces. Venom can animate any part of the costume and can fire a web-like substance from their hands. In some unknown way, Venom can sheild themselves from Spider-Man's spider-sense.
Equipment: None
Weapons: None
Limitations: The symbiote is extremely sensitive to sonic and thermal attacks

BACKGROUND

It all stared with a simple mistake. While participating in the first Secret War, Spider-Man really trashed his costume. He comes across two other heroes who earlier had similar problems and was told that ther is a wonderous machine the can make any article of clothing you can think of. Unfortunatly for poor Spidey, they neglected to tell him where to find it. Spider-Man did find a devise that he thought looked like "it wants to make a costume". It produced a small, black ball that initially set off his spider-sense as he picked it up. The ball oozed over the confused hero and became the black costume. Spider-Man wore the costume for a few months, enjoying the fact that it produced its own webbing and could change to mimic his civilian cloths.

This all came to an end when Spider-Man discovered his niftey new threds were actually an alien symbiote trying to bond to him permenently. Mr. Fantastic seperated the two with his "sonic blaster" and captured the symbiote for study. It should be noted that during the period that Spider-Man wore the alien costume there was evidence that the symbiote somehow fed on his adrenline. The costume escaped and reloined Spider-Man briefly, but the hero tried to kill the symbiote useing the bell tower of a church. The plan worked too well and the symbiote saved Spidey's life before hiding itself in the church.

The other half of this future combo, Eddie Brock, was the star investigative reporter for the Daily Globe. Eddie was a particularly driven man; driven to seek the approval of his stone hearted father. So it stands to reason that when his biggest scope, a man confeesing to be the then active Sin-Eater, was exposed as a fraud when the real Sin-Eater was captured by Spider-Man that Brock went a little over the edge. The paper fired him, his father disowned him, and his marriage ended. Brock's mind locked onto Spider-Man as the source of all his woes and thus began Brock's burning hatred of the Wall-Crawler. But life continued to deal harshly to Brock and soon he decided to comitt suicide. Stopping by a church to pray before he did the fateful deed, Brocks intense hatred of Spider-Man was noticed by the symbiote who had been hidden there since its last confrontation with Spider-Man. The two bonded and became Venom.

CRIMINAL HISTORY

First Appearance: (as alien costume)Secret Wars#8, (behind the scenes)WoSM#18, (actual appearance)ASM#299
Origin Story: ASM#300
Ref: Secret War#8 (Spider-Man obtained alien costume)
Ref: ASM#258 (Spidey learns costume is living alein symbiote; separated himself from costume with "sonic blaster")
Ref: WoSM#1 (costume reattached to Spidey, who brought it to a bell tower to destroy it with intence sound; costume saved Spidey's life then crawled away)
Ref: WoSM#18 (Brock pushed Peter Parker in front of a moving subway train w/o activating his spider-sense)
Ref: ASM#299 (Venom confronted Mary Jane Watson-Parker)
Ref: ASM#300 (battled Spider-Man for first time)
Ref: ASM#315 (escaped vault by mimicing fallen guard)
Ref: ASM Annual#25 (prevented the holdup of a truckstop on his way to New York)
Ref: ASM#316 (confronted Black Cat; battled Spidey at meat-packing plant)
Ref: ASM#317 (encountered Peter Parker as Eddie Brock at Parker's Aunt May's house; Spider-Man defeated him by tempting costume to reattach to him)
Ref: Quasar #6 (escaped Vault during massive prison break; returned by Quasar)
Ref: The Vault Graphic Novel (egineered fail prison break, killed warden)
Ref: ASM#330-331 (faked suicide at Vault by coating himself with a layer of synthetic skin created by costume; escaped Vault from its morgue)
Ref: ASM#332 (saved baby while battling Spidey)
Ref: ASM#333 (plague inducing villain Styx rendered symbiote comatose)
Ref: ASM#345 (symbiote reattached itself to Brock while in prison, spawn left behind)
Ref: ASM#346 (traped Spidey in cryogenics chamber)
Ref: ASM#347 (transported Spidey to a deserted island; Spidey faked own death to convince Venom that his vendetta was over)
Ref: ASM#362-363 (informed of existence of Carnag by Spider-Man & Human Torch; returned to New York to battle Carnage, captured by Spidey and Fantastic Four)
Ref: ASM#374-375 (escapes, captures Peter Parker's "parents"; battled Spider-Man & Wild Pack; made non-interference deal w/ Spider-Man)
Ref: Venom I#1-6 (returned to San-Fransiaco, met "under-people", battled Spidey, Life Foundation, and 5 other of his "children")
Ref: SM#1-2, ASM#378-380, SSM#201-203, WoSM#101-103 (battled Carnage & Spider-Man)
Ref: Venom II#1-4 (battled Punisher & Pyre)
Ref: Venom III#1-4 (met Beck, battled Jugernaught)
Ref: Venom IV#1-4 (w/ Morbius & Demogoblin battled demons)
Ref: Venom V#1-4 (battled Mace & techno ninjas; promised Beck he'd stop killing, but did not)
Ref: Venom V#1-4 (w/ Vengence battled alien Stalkers; learned that other symbiotes exist)
Ref: WoSm#118-119, SSM#52-53 (battled Scarlet-Spider, defeated and separated from costume)
Ref: Venom VI#1-4 (Brock battled 5 "children" while costume escaped Vault and rejoined him)
Ref: Venom VII#1-4 (rematch with Carnage)