Venom is Rewriting The Origin of Spider-Man's Black Suit All Over Again
Warning: contains spoilers for Venom: Lethal Protector #1!
Old school Marvel fans know the complicated and convoluted history of Spider-Man's black suit and Venom. As time went on, that history has been tweaked and adjusted, and it just happened again. This can be found in the recent reboot of Venom: Lethal Protector. The first issue was written by Venom co-creator David Michelinie and drawn by Ivan Fiorelli.
The original first appearance of Spider-Man's black suit was in the coveted eighth issue of the fantastical '80s crossover Secret Wars. The series centered around taking a whole bunch of heroes and villains and bringing them to fight on an amalgamated planet called Battleworld. In need of a replacement for his tattered and torn red and blue suit, Spider-Man finds a machine that repairs costumes. However when he uses it, Spider-Man isn't given his old costume. He is given an all-black one instead. Fond of this new suit and its abilities, Spider-Man brings the suit with him back to Earth.
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Of course, Spider-Man learns that the suit is in fact a living alien called a symbiote and that it is changing his behavior for the worst. Infamously, Spider-Man gets rid of the suit in a church and it inevitably bonds with Eddie Brock to form the villain Venom. However, Venom has always viewed himself more of a lethal protector, and that's what this new series is about. While talking with his symbiote, Eddie Brock recalls how it got to Earth. It's mentioned very briefly, but the way it's phrased makes it appear that the suit had a completely different journey than the one mentioned above. He says that the suit was taken from his home planet to Earth. There is no mention of
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