Maximum Carnage
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Cover of Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage (2004).Trade paperback collected edition.
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||
| Publication date | May – August 1993 | ||
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| Main character(s) |
Spider-Man Venom Carnage Carrion Demogoblin Doppleganger Shriek Cloak and Dagger |
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Tom DeFalco J.M. DeMatteis Terry Kavanagh David Micheline |
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| Maximum Carnage | ISBN | ||
Maximum Carnage is a fourteen-part comic book crossover published in Marvel Comics' Spider-Man family of titles in 1993. It featured Spider-Man, Venom, and a host of other superheroes teaming up to face Venom's murderous offspring Carnage and his team of supervillains.
Since the alien symbiote he was bonded to was destroyed during his capture,Cletus Kasady is presumed powerless and jailed at Ravencroft Asylum. However, the symbiote mutated his blood prior to its destruction, enabling Kasady to generate a copy of the symbiote and break out. During his escape, Kasady—again calling himself Carnage—frees fellow inmate Shriek.
Over the course of their ensuing killing spree through New York City, they recruit Doppelganger, Demogoblin, and Carrion. Carnage dubs himself their "father", but in fact they all despise Carnage and stay with the group out of devotion to Shriek. As the death toll increases, Spider-Man, Venom, Captain America, Black Cat, Nightwatch, Cloak and Dagger, Iron Fist, Deathlok, Morbius, and Firestar all join the cause of stopping them. However, the heroes are polarized between Venom's desire to stop Carnage at all costs and Spider-Man's refusal to allow his own hands to be bloodied, and Spider-Man ultimately abandons Venom to Carnage's mercies. In addition, Shriek uses her psychic powers to turn the populace of New York City into a bloodthirsty rabble, allowing the killers to continue their rampage with impunity.
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