but with no venom, they wouldnt have had that big reason to not use it, so they may have used it more often. Like it may have been an alternate costume that he used on a fairly regular basis maybe mission dependant or during the night time.
I wonder how much of that was planned out. from what it said on Spiderfan.com it seemed like they were trying to have him use the black one. Im sure sometimes they try to change the costume and just end up going back to the original because the character is so iconic.
Slightly off topic but didnt Iron Man have a black/white/grey costume at one point or was that some other guy in the Iron Man world (im getting this from the spidey cartoon, when the had carnage)
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