WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME SYMBIOTE STORIES UNLIKE ANY OTHER! David Dastmalchian joins the fray, as he and Philip Tan reveal the earliest exploits of VENOM as he stalked SPIDER-MAN through New York subways and rooftops, immune to Peter's Spider-Sense, before AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #299! From the world of the sleeper hit WHAT IF PETER PARKER BECAME THE PUNISHER? Carl Potts weaves a web with Damian Couceiro to show what happens if a Peter prone to violent solutions for his enemies became VENOM- and it's just as shocking as you'd imagine! Takashi Okazaki imagines a never-before-seen Venom in ancient Japan, as this SAMURAI SYMBIOTE goes up against a CRIMSON CARNAGE! RATED PARENTAL ADVISORY.