Lee Price (Marvel)
Lee Price is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Lee Price
In order to escape from his suffering, Lee set his apartment ablaze, killing his parents. (Venom v3 #6)
Taken into protective services, Price spent five years as a ward of the state before joining the Army Rangers. Lee was injured in a mine explosion that killed several members of his squad and cost him two of the fingers on his left hand. Discharged due to his injury, he registered as a disabled veteran in order to receive benefits — which did not come through — and was unable to find employment with any domestic security firms, leaving him in a desperate situation. (Venom v3 #1)
Faced with eviction from his apartment, Lee accepted a job from Mac Gargan to act as muscle for the Black Cat's gang during an arms deal with Tombstone's crew. After delivering the package, the situation escalated when Tombstone's men refuse to pay and insulted Black Cat, and both factions pulled guns on each other. Lee was unarmed, but he was saved from being shot when the Venom symbiote abruptly intervened, desperately searching for a new host. When the symbiote bonded to him, Lee overpowered it with his will and - disregarding its outraged protests - used it to kill everyone present, including the members of Black Cat's gang and even his childhood friend Tony Consiglio, in order to keep his possession of the symbiote a secret for maximum benefit. (Venom v3 #1) Once he returned to his apartment, Lee engaged the symbiote in a mental confrontation and repelled its attempts to take him over. The following day, Lee decided to return the merchandise to Black Cat, claiming to have been the sole survivor of the confrontation between the two gangs, and offered her the use of his services, attracting the suspicion of Adams - Black Cat's second-in-command - and Mac Gargan. When he returned home, Lee was attacked by Firebug, an assassin sent by Tombstone, which prompted him to transform into Venom to fend off his assailant and kill him to maintain his secrecy. When the fight was taken to the street, Venom was confronted by a pair of FBI agents who had tailed him from Black Cat's hideout. (Venom v3 #2)
This led to Price calling forth the remaining aspects of his Symbiote back into him where they merged to become a gigantic Venom form. With his large body, he was able to overpower his foes despite them working together to contain him. This was until Black Cat realised that Maniac could no longer re-infect them as their bodies had developed an immunity after being purged of the Symbiote. Spider-Man then added those anti-bodies to Anti-Venom's where the vigilantes gave an opening for Flash Thompson to plunge into Maniac's body. The strike damaged the giant Symbiote causing it to explode with much of the bio-mass being lost though a fraction of it remained within the defeated Lee Price. He was then taken into custody though he retained a portion of his Symbiote that remained bonded to him. (Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Omega v1 #1) Lee came to be at Ryker's Island penitentiary where he headed a small gang that worked alongside him in the prison. During this time, Eddie Brock was seemingly arrested and placed at Ryker's with Price confronting him. It was then revealed that Brock was actually Cletus Kasady using his Carnage Symbiote to disguise himself as Eddie. He dealt a fatal blow into Price and ripped out his Symbiote in order to merge with it leaving Lee seemingly to die as his body was dependent on the creature. Kasady then went on a rampage as he declared that Knull was coming to Earth. (Free Comic Book Day 2019 Spider-Man/Venom)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Later on, he would take on the name of Maniac for himself. (Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Alpha v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
If his control was severed, then new splinters of his Symbiote could not re-infect those host bodies as their forms developed anti-bodies able to resist any control. (Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Omega v1 #1)
The Symbiote resided in his body with Price stating that he would die without it. (Free Comic Book Day 2019 Spider-Man/Venom)
Notes
- Lee Price as Venom was created by Mike Costa and Gerardo Sandoval where he made his first appearance in Venom v3 #1 (January, 2017).
- He debuted as Maniac in Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Alpha v1 #1 (February, 2018).
In other media
Video games
- In Spider-Man Unlimited, Maniac appeared in the setting of the mobile video game. An entry referred to those Made Men transformed by his Symbiote as being turned into Inklings.
Appearances
- Venom v3: (2017)
- Venom Inc.:
- Amazing Spider-Man:
- Free Comic Book Day 2019 Spider-Man/Venom:
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