Venom is a moniker used by several characters in the Marvel Comics' fictional Marvel Universe. It was first and used by the character Eddie Brock in The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (April 1988). It is now used by Mac Gargan, formerly known as Scorpion. The characters and their superhuman abilities are derived from the bonding between the human host and an extraterrestrial parasite known as the Venom Symbiote. The Venom symbiote first appeared in Secret Wars vol.1, #8 when Spider-Man first encountered the symbiote. [1]
The symbiote returned to Earth with Spider-Man at the end of the events of the Marvel miniseries Secret Wars. Soon, the symbiote began to exert more and more influence over its host, eventually threatening to take over. Spider-Man eventually was able to free himself, and the symbiote later found and bonded with Eddie Brock, a reporter for the New York Globe (a rival of the Daily Bugle), and later Mac Gargan, the former Scorpion.
Originally, the Venom symbiote was portrayed as a mute and lonely creature craving the company of a host. More recently, it has been shown as increasingly abusive of its hosts, and having the powers of speech.
Venom creator David Michelinie had originally planned for Venom to be a pregnant woman whose husband was killed in an automobile accident because the driver was distracted by Spider-Man. Much to her horror, her husband would die in the crash in front of her very own eyes. The shock would force her into labor, and ultimately lose her baby and her mind in the process. The symbiote would find her in a state of intense grief and bond with her and the two would seek revenge against Spider-Man.
However, Spider-Man editor Jim Salicrup did not believe that the audience would accept a woman as a viable threat to Spider-Man, even one enhanced by an alien symbiote.
Thusly, Venom was changed to Eddie Brock.
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