Venom (Eddie Brock)

Venom (Edward "Eddie" Charles Brock), is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics supervillain and anti-hero created by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane. Wizard Magazine rated him the 67th greatest villain of all time.

Despite his late introduction into the comic universe (the character was not brought about until the late 1980s, while most of Spider-Man's most prominent enemies were introduced in the 1960s and had since stuck around), he is generally Spider-Man's most popular foe,citation needed]. For much of the 1990s he was Spider-Man's most visible adversary, with the possible exception of Carnage, whom Venom and Spider-Man actually teamed up to battle in the epic "Maximum Carnage" storyline. Venom has an enthusiastic stand-alone fan-base, and this enthusiasm towards the character was cited by the filmmakers of Spider-Man 3 as one of the main reasons why they decided to include him in the film.

He first made a partial appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #299 (April 1988), and he made his first full appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #300.

Venom is the result of symbiosis between the extraterrestrial "Venom" symbiote and Eddie Brock, a human host. Before this merger, Eddie was a journalist who held a personal grudge against Spider-Man. Eddie Brock, as Venom, is one of Spider-Man's deadliest foes and is one of the most well-known villains in both the Marvel universe and Spider-Man's rogue gallery. He appears as a major antagonist in the film Spider-Man 3 and is portrayed by Topher Grace.