Lee Price (Marvel)

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Maniac in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #792.

Lee Price is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

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Biography

Lee Price fights for control over the Symbiote in Venom v3 #3.

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)

The symbiote abandoned Price and tried to bond with one of the agents, but relented when Price was shot and mortally wounded. The symbiote rebonding to him, Venom escaped injured, and took refuge in Tony's apartment. Having investigated Lee and his associates, the FBI agents caught up with him and offered him an ultimatum: work for them as an informant or risk becoming public, thus turning into a target for law enforcement agencies and vigilantes. (Venom v3 #3) Lee met with Agent Bagman, one of the FBI agents, outside Parker Industries, where the symbiote mentioned it had been held prisoner before bonding to him. Lee noted that the symbiote was sounding less intelligent than it had before, but their conversation was interrupted by Bagman, who requested Lee get the symbiote to reveal Spider-Man's secret identity. Bagman gave Lee time to consider the request, after which Price was summoned by Black Cat, who asked him to intimidate a Daily Bugle reporter who was writing an exposé on her crime group. Noting that Black Cat's trust in him was slipping when he was paired with Mac Gargan and issued the order not to kill anyone, Price accepted the job despite the increasingly feral symbiote's concerns. However, Gargan - dressed in his Scorpion armor - decided to eliminate Price and frame his death on the reporter after killing him too. The Venom symbiote emerged to save Price from being beaten to death, and the ensuing battle was recorded by bystanders and posted online. (Venom v3 #4)

Venom defeated Gargan and would have eaten him had Spider-Man not intervened. Retreating, Price abducted the reporter and threatened him to learn Adams' address. That evening Venom attacked Adams, who revealed that he'd told Black Cat that Price had lied to her and was the symbiote's host. Price retorted that Black Cat would go after Adams as well, since he'd gone behind her back, and offered him protection - plotting to turn Adams over to the FBI and take over Black Cat's organization once she was arrested. However, Agent Bagman was revealed to be an informant for Black Cat's gang and in league with Adams, ambushing Price with a helicopter armed with incendiary missiles. Venom managed to hijack the helicopter, but this caused the FBI to call in their Anti-Symbiote Task Force, led by the Venom symbiote's former host Eddie Brock. (Venom v3 #5)

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)

He revels in the power being Venom gave him, and was not above forcing the Venom symbiote to commit acts of violence against its will. (Venom v3 #1)

While Price once had people he cared about and considered comrades, the traumatic experiences he has endured have left him a cynical loner. (Venom v3 #5)

Powers and abilities

Price lost the pinky and ring fingers on his left hand serving in the Army, but after bonding to the symbiote he was shown with both missing fingers intact. (Venom v3 #1)

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).

Alternate Versions

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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