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﻿It's extremely rare for a comic book character to spring forth from the mind of one person.

Usually, the writer and artist share co-creator credit,

like how Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster both came up Superman,

or Stan Lee and Jack Kirby basically gave birth to most of the Marvel Universe.

especially when it comes to a character as complex as Venom.

with some help from Todd McFarlane himself,

we're gonna take a peek behind the scenes at Marvel Comics to find out

He fully debuted in 1988's 'Amazing Spider-Man #299,'

but his history begins over a decade before that,

But before we get there, we should start with the official byline:

which states that Venom was a co-creation of

Marvel wanted to do something special for the
landmark 300th issue of 'The Amazing Spider-Man,'

so writer David Micheline decided to make use of the alien
symbiote that Spidey encountered four years earlier.

He introduced a mysterious unseen character that was immune to Peter's spider-sense,

who was able to surprise our friendly neighborhood hero
and nearly kill him before vanishing into the night.

When it came time for the big reveal, Michelinie planned to unveil Venom as a woman,

whose hatred of Spidey came from losing her husband and unborn child as the result
of collateral damage during one of Spider-Man's various supervillain battles.

His editor liked the idea, but didn't think that a woman,

would visually seem like a threat to the webslinger.

a down-on-his-luck reporter who wanted revenge on Spidey for exposing his bogus story.

Michelinie might have had his arc all planned out,

but without a killer design from one of the most influential artists of the '90s,

Venom could have been just another forgotten villain like Rocket Racer or The Big Wheel.

The artist's star was on the rise at Marvel,

He wanted to draw Spidey in his original costume.

I'll come on one condition. You gotta get him back in the blue in the red!

Because to me, as a kid, that's what it looked like. So, I gotta do
the blue and the red, the blue and the red, the blue and the red.

So put it on somebody else, we'll create another character, then I can have
the red and blue Spider-Man, and they'll still have the black costume.

and got the wheels turning to remove Spidey's black suit,

and introduce an iconic new villain at the same time.

The basics of the black suit were already set in stone,

but McFarlane transformed it into a massive monstrosity,

the fangs and slobber are nowhere to be found.

The tongue part, I don't know why it has to be out all the time. I think
that long tongues drawn in the comics look like my dog when its running.

For one image it looks super cool, but if I was
doing the tongue, in the movie, it would be slow,

then it'd be out, it would do something and be gone, it'd be another tool,

not just Gene Simmons "look at what I've got."

Todd McFarlane: Not the biggest fan of the tongue.

So, Michelinie and McFarlane came up with Eddie
Brock, his hulking frame and his signature smile,

in other words, they created the character we know today as Venom.

But it gets a little more complicated when you consider that neither
of them had any part in the alien suit's creation or design,

they were just building on work that had begun years before.

The symbiote's origin is a little more difficult to trace,

but the earliest claimant to its creation is writer/artist

Byrne became one of comics biggest names with his work on 'Man of Steel' and the Phoenix Saga,

but in the '70s, he was still paying his dues with one of Marvel's lower tier heroes,

He noticed that Iron Fist's costume usually ended
up shredded to pieces by the end of an issue,

only to show up the next month in pristine condition.

Byrne didn't like the idea of the Living Weapon
sewing together his leotard with a needle and thread,

so he proposed that his suit would be made from a bio-organic material that healed itself,

with no need for time-consuming stitching.

The concept never saw the light of day in Iron Fist,

Spidey writer Roger Stern asked Byrne if he could take the unused
idea and apply it to Spider-Man's mysterious new black costume.

because the idea of Spidey getting a new look in the first place came from a far more unlikely source.

Not a comics writer, or artist, or editor,

From time to time, Marvel used to hold talent searches to recruit new blood.

'Ultimate Spider-Man' legend Mark Bagley came from one such contest,

but usually, they never amounted to much.

That didn't stop superfan Randy Schueller from submitting a pitch in 1982, though.

Spidey swings by the Baxter Building for a much-needed
costume upgrade courtesy of Reed Richards,

and Mr. Fantastic whips up a new suit made of the same unstable molecules the FF use in their uniforms.

It comes equipped with fancy new cybernetic webshooters and increased clinging capacity,

All black everything, with the only splash of color being a red spider splashed across his chest.

Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter actually wrote him back.

He bought the idea for $220, and gave the young writer the
chance to script the story in exchange for the rights.

Unfortunately, Schueller was unable to flesh out his figment into a full-fledged comic book,

so Spidey's new costume was put on the shelf for a few years,

until it was dusted off for 'Secret Wars,'

'Secret Wars' began as a collaboration with toymaker Mattel.

They were interested in picking up the rights for Marvel's characters,

but they wanted to tie it in with a big publishing event,

one where all the good guys and all the bad guys got together
for whatever reason and just beat the crap out of eachother.

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