Story by J. M. DeMatteis, Various. Art by Sal Buscema, Various. Cover by In-Hyuk Lee.
Things take a dark turn as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the House of Ideas with the era-spanning MARVEL TALES. This anthology series shines a spotlight on fan-favorite characters, features timeless stories and highlights some of our most impressive talent from the past eight decades. This time we're focusing on the Ravencroft Asylum for the Criminally Insane - and some of its deadliest inmates. First, Spidey legends J.M. DeMatteis and Sal Buscema introduce Ravencroft founder Dr. Ashley Kafka in the psychological SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #178. The asylum's most famous resident, Cletus 'Carnage' Kasady, wreaks havoc in SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED (1993) #1 - the first chapter of the epic Maximum Carnage. And modern masters Dan Slott and Stuart Immonen take things to a whole new level of crazy in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2015) #798 - where Norman Osborn plus the Carnage symbiote equals...the Red Goblin.