Kornfield grew up off Broadway in New York City raised by his mother, with his father having been killed at an unknown time period.

[volume & issue needed] Brian was met by the Dwarf (an agent of the Elder God Chthon) offering him the power to be like his idol Spider-Man via a page of the Darkhold.

His obsessive desire for vengeance was twisted even further by the Darkhold's black magic and Brian saw himself as the ultimate arbitrator of justice, willing to mete out punishment that no one else would.

He then captured and planned to slay some other criminals, which brought him into conflict with the Ghost Rider and John Blaze when the two crashed into Spider-X's web that had been spun across the entire street.

[5] While possessing the Venom symbiote, Mac Gargan posed as Spider-Man as a member of the Dark Avengers[6][7] until his capture at the end of the "Siege" storyline.

After being granted spider-powers by "The Gathering of Five",[9] she filled in for Peter Parker during one of his temporary retirements[10] and later became Spider-Woman when he reclaimed the role.

Ai Apaec first appeared in the first issue of the 2011 Osborn miniseries, and was created by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Jamie McKelvie.

Ai Apaec began appearing as a regular character in the Dark Avengers series, beginning with issue #175.

Ai Apaec is a chimeric being that has the head, torso, and arms of a human, the lower half being a spider's body, snakes for hair, and long sharp fangs.

[17] During the Spider-Island storyline, Shang-Chi and Iron Fist discover that Ai Apaec was controlling Bride of Nine Spiders of the Immortal Weapons to capture the other members.

[19] When Osborn reclaimed ownership of H.A.M.M.E.R., he manages to locate Ai Apaec and recruit him to his latest incarnation of the Dark Avengers alongside Barney Barton, Gorgon, June Covington, Skaar, and Superia.

[21] When the Thunderbolts were missing in time, Ai Apaec was present when the Dark Avengers were recruited by Luke Cage to be a replacement team.

Ai Apaec and the other Dark Avengers members were implanted with nanites in order to prevent them from going rogue, and placed under the leadership of Luke Cage.

[22] Ai Apaec and the rest of the Dark Avengers team are thrown into an alternate world with John Walker.

Agent's limbs and shrunk Ai Apaec, Iron Man lashes out at him and realizes that Henry Pym's control implant had been reworked.

[26] Ai Apaec climbs on Doctor Strange's leg, telepathically calling the Dark Avengers to summon an object contained by Spider-Man's webs, which would grant him the perfect distraction.

After he and his family are transported to the mainstream 616 universe during Secret Wars, he keeps fighting crime as Spider-Man, learning to channel his venom strikes into an electric sword.