The biggest Spidey story of the year needed something special to kick it off a new giant size quarterly Spider-man series. Spider-Man Unlimited kicked off the 14-part "Maximum Carnage" story,written by Tom DeFalco and illustrated by Ron Lim.
Carnage had been sent to Ravencroft Sanitarium after his first battle with Spider-Man.He didn't say there for long and soon escaped to go on a crazed killing spree.Drppelagger,Shriek,Carriom,and Demogoblin joined him as he brought chaos and terror to New York.
Spidey was aided by Venom,Black Cat,Cloak and Dagger, Deathlok and other to defeat the psychopathic Symbiote.The epic series inspired a hit computer game of the same name.