History
Max Modell invited to promising young students, Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy, to tour his bleeding edge company at Horizon Labs. One of the experiments he showed a pair was a massive colony of spiders that Modell was bombarding with numerous radioactive particles in the name of generic alteration. Peter fell into the colony, where he was devoured by them. However in the process the spiders became a singular hive-mind construct that absorbed Parker's consciousness, masquerading as the man they absorbed.[1]