Written by David Michelinie; illustrated by Mark Bagley.

1128 pages; hardcover.

Rated T

Symbiotes clash — with Spidey in the middle! Carnage, the spawn of Venom, has assembled an army of the web-slinger's criminally insane adversaries to spread his message of hostility, chaos and wholesale slaughter! Outmanned and overpowered, the wall-crawler must recruit his own band of super-beings to combat the rising tide of evil: Black Cat, Cloak & Dagger, Firestar, Captain America, Iron Fist, Deathlok and...Venom?! Meanwhile, Mary and Richard Parker, long presumed dead, are back in Peter’s life — but Aunt May still has suspicions, and when the Vulture gains a new lease on life at Spidey’s expense, it sets in motion a chain of events that will rock the wall-crawler's world!

COLLECTING: Amazing Spider-Man (1963) 376-393; Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) 27-28; Web of Spider-Man (1985) 101-103, 112; Spider-Man (1990) 35-37, 45; Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) 201-203, 211; Amazing Spider-Man Ashcan Edition (1994) 1; Venom: Lethal Protector (1993) 1-6; material from Spider-Man Unlimited (1993) 1-2.