Spider-Man got an all-new look when he found a sleek black costume that came complete with its own built-in web shooters. It seemed like a perfect fit for the wall crawler, until he realized that the costume was, in reality, an alien symbiote which had come to Earth on a returning space shuttle. Spider-Man eventually freed himself from the creature, which went on to band with reporter Eddie Brock. The symbiote bestowed upon Brock the super powers it had absorbed from Spider-Man and together they became the fearsome being known as Venom.