Mark Mallow was a photographer, he covered the Spider Man Stories. He lived in an appartment and drove a broken down car. One day he was to cover a meteor shower from the park. He was at the park when he saw a meteor go down, he fallowed it to it's site. He found it and was soon combined with the symboite. He got up and found himself attached, he was shocked but loved the feeling. Soon the Symboite caused him to do bad things, after two days he had robbed a gas station. He was then confronted by Spider-Man, who became his sworn enemy.