Crossing over Black Cat and her gang, Lee Price rises to new levels of villainy to tangle with Spider-Man and Venom Inc.
Coming back from outer space after months, Flash Thompson loses his
Venom symbiote following a confrontation with FBI. He then contacts Andi Benton AKA
Mania in Philadelphia and she offers to help him locate his symbiote. He also tells her that a new
Venom has already showed up in New York and is on news headlines as well.
While still on phone,
Mania saves a woman from being mugged and took down a bunch of thugs. She then moves on responding to a nearby alarm at a jewelry store only to get ambushed by a gang lead by a man in the hood. They hit her up with flamethrowers and sonic cannon to separate her suit and leave her after claiming it.
Spider-Man has come across
The Ringer and
Tumbler trying to steal an art from Guggenheim Museum. As soon as he knocks them off, his Spider-Sense goes off as
Black Cat came to strike at him with her bladed whip. Upon pinning him down under a heavy sculpture, she leaves to steal and Spidey gets a call from his old buddy Flash Thompson.
Peter Parker goes to see Flash and is surprised that he decided to meet him even after recent of collapse of Parker Industries. Flash reveals that his symbiote was stolen earlier and asked him to contact Spidey for help to get his suit back. Peter comments that even
Spider-Man would probably want to destroy it only to get brushed off quickly.
Elsewhere,
Venom was trashing
Looter that night and almost attempts to kill him until Eddie Brock intervenes to stop his other. Struggling to keep his symbiote in check, he goes to see Dr. Steven at Alchemax to get some medication. Flash Thompson tries to get in following him and is thrown out but manages to grab one of the guards' ID cards.
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When Eddie was talking to Dr. Steven about recent behavior of his suit, Flash shows up to claim his former partner and surprisingly, it responds to him.
Spider-Man watches his break in from afar and gets inside once he realize Brock is there. As both Eddie and Flash struggle to gain control over the symbiote, Spidey tries ripping parts of Klyntar.
He throws a piece of it in a nearby vat and the knocked one of them over upon learning that its liquid substance is harmful to symbiotes, which doused over and transforms part of Klyntar that bonded to Flash and made him newest
Anti-Venom. He rips off
Venom symbiote from Eddie before putting it into a canister and then leaves abruptly.
Since Flash was adamant on not letting go of his former host,
Spider-Man invites him to an apartment that he shares with
Mockingbird. Unwilling to disclose his secret identity to Thompson just yet, he suggests using Peter Parker's equipment to kill
Venom symbiote but wanting to bond with it again, Flash refuses to let him do so.
Looter was sitting in a pub and gets a visit from former
Venom host Lee Price wearing
Mania symbiote. He infects all other patrons at the bar with gobs of symbiote biomass to turn them into his Inklings and bending them to his will. Together, they raided at
Black Cat's hideout but she retaliates by telling her gang to tear them all apart.
One by one, all of her men fall prey to Price and his Made Men including
Hammerhead,
Killer Shrike and
Scorpion. When all of her minions fell, Cat challenges Price to a one on one battle to settle scores and even she fell too. Spidey makes a symbiote compass, which lead him to a now turned
Black Cat and her gang along with
Anti-Venom.
Overwhelmed by a group of Venomized villains, these two tries their best to fight back almost to no avail. Felicia Hardy breaks out of
Maniac's control by kissing
Anti-Venom and got out only to stumble up on Eddie Brock. A strand of symbiote from Bobbi Morse's apartment escaped into sewers looking for him and they bond immediately.
Both heroes eventually get captured and Price sends a turned Spidey into a crime spree through New York. Andi Benton saves her mentor from being executed and
Spider-Man was saved by a joint effort of
Black Cat and
Venom. As Lee Price plans to attack on notorious Five Families, they all band together to finally stop him for good.
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In a move to soft-reboot monthly ongoing
Amazing Spider-Man and
Venom comic-book series,
Marvel Comics hired writer
Dan Slott (
Amazing Spider-Man – Graveyard Shift,
Amazing Spider-Man – The Parker Luck) and
Mike Costa (
Venom – Land Before Crime,
Venom – The Nativity) to conceive plot for "
Venom Inc." crossover story arc in 2017.
Dan and Mike were assisted by artists
Gerardo Sandoval (
Age of Apocalypse – Warzones!,
Guardians 3000 – Time After Time) and
Ryan Stegman (
Inhuman – AXIS,
Inhuman – Genesis) for illustration with Stegman providing additional cover art.
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A former host of
Venom, Lee Price returns for a big score and plans to take over entire criminal underworld of New York with help from a new symbiote and his recruited Inklings. To stop him at all cost,
Spider-Man forms an alliance with
Black Cat, Eddie Brock, Flash Thompson and former
Mania host Andi Benton, who bears a Hell-Mark.
Price starts his plan by stealing
Mania symbiote from Andi, leading Flash to investigate and having Peter involved. Eddie was looking for a solution of his own problems at Alchemax, where he witnessed Thompson to become new
Anti-Venom. Soon, Spidey got involved and all of them found a common cause to take a stand against Price.
Picking up from "
Amazing Spider-Man - Secret Empire" tie-in and "
Venom – Blood In The Water" storyline,
Venom Inc. collects Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Alpha and Omega, Amazing Spider-Man issues #792-793 and Venom issues #159-160 , continued in "
Amazing Spider-Man – Red Goblin" and "
Venom – Rex" up next.
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