First Appeance: Amazing Spider-man #300
The Story: Eddie Brock was a reporter who did a series of interviews with the vigilante
known as the Sin Eater, during which Brock, under pressure from the
authorities, revealed the name of the Sin-Eater himself. Unfortunately,
Eddie didn't check his sources carefully enough to find out his pal was
a wacko who thought he was the Sin-Eater, not the wacko who was the
Sin-Eater. This mistake got him fired for sloppy journalism (a fate a
few real-life journalists certainly deserve...but I digress). Since
Spider-Man was the one who uncovered the identity of the real Sin-Eater,
Brock blamed the Web-Slinger for his journalistic disgrace. Forced to
write for sleeze magazines because no respectable publication would
touch him, Eddie was in church contemplating suicide when the symbiont,
weakened from a recent battle with Spider-Man and attracted by the force
of Brock's despair, found him. When they bonded, the symbiont became
overwhelmed by Eddie's dislike for its former host, and Eddie learned
all of Spider-Man's secrets. The bonding does not seem to have improved
the emotional stability of either the symbiont or Eddie.
