Peter comes home to find MJ still terrifi ed from her encounter with a muscular man in a black Spidey costume. She refuses to stay in the apartment. In the Bronx, MJ’s assailant plots his next move, as his costume flows right off him. Staying at a hotel, Pete realizes the intruder was someone in his old symbiote costume. The next morning, MJ arranges for a condo in the exclusive Bedford Towers. After borrowing the FF’s sonic blaster, Pete gets the feeling he’s being followed even though his spider-sense isn’t triggered. Slipping into an alley, he shakes his pursuer. Later, at Our Lady of Saints church, the pursuer kills a patrolman, smothering him with his fluid costume. The next day, Flash, Harry, Robbie and others help Pete and MJ move into Bedford Towers. Spying a black-costumed web-swinger while in conversation with Robbie, Pete excuses himself, grabs the sonic blaster and pursues as Spidey to the Bronx tenement where his spider-sense doesn’t warn him of his opponent’s attack. Calling himself Venom, the attacker reveals himself as Eddie Brock. Spidey shoots Venom with the sonic blaster, which knocks Eddie out but doesn’t separate him from the alien. Realizing the man and alien have completely bonded and unwilling to kill Eddie, Spidey departs. Venom recovers, captures him, and webs him into the central church bell, hoping to crush him during the tolling, but Spidey frees himself. Deducing that the symbiote uses his own substance to create webbing, Spidey forces Venom to keep spraying it until the symbiote becomes depleted and Eddie falls to earth. Spidey arranges for the FF to hold Venom in a containment facility and returns home where MJ tells him she can no longer bear the sight of his black costume. With Spidey back in his traditional red-and-blues, the legend begins anew.