The Alien Costume, Part 3
Review by Amazing Spidey; Screenshots by Kolbar

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Episode #9 - The Alien Costume, Part 3
 Original Airdate - May 13, 1995

The Kingpin is furious at Spidey and sends the Shocker and later the Rhino out to finish Spidey of with the aid of another new invention of Alistair Smythe. Meanwhile, Eddie Brock, as the symbiote creature Venom, is busy playing cat and mouse with Spider-Man, intruding on Peter's private life and making it clear he knows the web-slinger's secret identity. Peter soon realizes that the pumped-up Eddie as Venom is stronger than he is. Worse than that: Spidey's spider- sense doesn't work around Venom!

Review:

All superheroes have their most popular villain. Batman has the Joker, Superman has Lex Luthor, and Daredevil has The Kingpin, but Spider-Man always was the one who made most think "but what about him? The Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Carnage? It's never been as clear cut with the Spidey comics. While this shows big bad was easily the Green Goblin due to the events of Turning Point, or possibly The Kingpin, due to his hand in most of the episodes, one shouldn't dismiss Venoms presence in the series despite his few appearances.

Taking place right after Spidey rejected the alien costume; it bonded with a known Spidey/Peter hater Eddie Brock, and went on to torment Peter, stalking him, his girlfriend, his Aunt May and even his villains.

Whilst the animation was no where near as great as it's previous 2 parts, this episode still stands up against them, as Venom was a great threat, to both Peter and Spider-Man, which is probably why he wasn't used so much, if he kept appearing, would it have had the same effect? Spider-Man Unlimited more or less answers this question, for those who have seen it.

But, back to Venom. Anyone who has read the original Venom stories published in Amazing Spider-Man know how great the character actually is. He, after only one appearance became the chief Spidey villain, but during Marvel's poor 90's run, he got lost and replaced with the now resurrected (ugh) Green Goblin.

The whole alien costume remains one of the best arcs the show had to offer, they took a much loved comic story, and made it even better than ever.

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