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MacDonald "Mac" Gargan is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel...

MacDonald "Mac" Gargan is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He originally appeared as the villain Scorpion, and then bonded with the Venom symbiote to become the third incarnation of Venom. After taking a serum to control the symbiote, he is now posing as the third incarnation of Spider-Man. The character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Spider-Man #19 (1964) and first appears as the Scorpion in Amazing Spider-Man #20 (1965), becomes the third incarnation of Venom in Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #10 (2005) and the third Spider-Man in Dark Avengers #1 (2009). Mac Gargan appears in the character's first own 4-issue limited series, Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man. The comic was released in June 2009 and is written by Brian Reed, with art by Chris Bachalo. Mac Gargan was a private investigator initially hired by J. Jonah Jameson to find out how Peter Parker is able to obtain incredible pictures of Spider-Man . Gargan's efforts set off Peter's spider-sense and the teen was able to easily evade the detective. Jameson then decided to hire Gargan as the subject of a barely tested process that would endow him with the useful