Venom: Along Came a Spider

In this four-issue 1996 Marvel miniseries, writer Evan Skolnick and artist Joe St. Pierre pit the original Venom against a new synthetic symbiote known as Hybrid, with Ben Reilly and a cast of detectives caught in the crossfire. Larry Hama and artists Patrick Zircher and Randy Emberlin also contribute to this tangled web of corporate conspiracy and symbiote warfare. It matters as an early exploration of the Venom mythos expanding beyond Eddie Brock, introducing the concept of multiple symbiotes bonded to a single host.