Story by David Michelinie, More. Art by Mark Bagley, More. Cover by Ron Lim.
Symbiotes clash - with Spidey in the middle. Carnage, the spawn of Venom, has assembled an army of the web-slinger'swebslinger's criminally insane adversaries to spread his message of hostility, chaos and wholesale slaughter: Carrion, Demogoblin, Shriek and the Spider-Man Doppelganger. Outmanned and overpowered, the wall-crawler must recruit his own band of super-beings to combat the rising tide of evil: Black Cat, Cloak and Dagger, Firestar, Captain America, Iron Fist, Deathlok and...Venom? Spider-Man's worst enemy becomes his uneasy ally in the battle to halt the pure evil of Carnage's mad rampage. Plus, an explosive day for Peter Parker leads him into a savage showdown with the Punisher - and Sabretooth. Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #378-380, WEB OF SPIDER-MAN (1985) #101-103, SPIDER-MAN (1990) #35-37, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #201-203, SPIDER-MAN/PUNISHER/SABRETOOTH: DESIGNER GENES and material from SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED (1993) #1-2. Rated T+.