Amazing Spider-Man #300

Peter returns home to find Mary Jane has been terrorized by an inhuman thing that looked like
Spider-Man. Peter quickly deduces that it must have been the alien symbiotic costume which he had
thought dead. Mary Jane is terrified by the experience and they decide to move out of the Chelsea St.
apartment which now frightens Mary Jane with awful memories.

Spidey borrows a sonic blaster from the Fantastic Four to do help battle the alien. At his new condo, Peter
sees the alien swinging through the city and immediately pursues. He is ambushed by Venom who reveals
his identity as the Eddie Brock/alien symbiote and relates his origin.

In the ensuing battle, Spider-Man determines that the symbiote and Brock are irrecoverably joined and thus
he cannot defeat the alien with the sonic blaster without killing Brock. In sparing him, Spider-Man gives
Venom the opportunity he needs to triumph.

Venom webs the unconscious Spider-Man to the inside of the same church bell Spider-Man had used to
repel the alien symbiote (in Web of Spider-Man#1). Venom leaves Spider-Man to be smashed by the bell
knocker, but Spidey breaks free through an act of sheer strength and will. Spider-Man engages Venom
above the bell tower and defeats him by forcing him to exhaust his supply of organic webbing, causing him
to fall to the street below. He leaves the unconscious Venom in the custody of the Fantastic Four.