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A spider got caught in a radiation test at a public exhibition demonstrating the safe handling of nuclear laboratory waste materials, sponsored by the General Techtronics Corporation. The radiation, however, seemed to be slowly killing it. Before it died it managed to bite a student from Midtown High named of Peter Parker. The spider's venom caused changes to Peter's DNA that gave him certain abilities of a spider, such as the proportionate strength and agility along with the ability to climb on any surface. He could now react to danger quickly with a "spider-sense".[2]

The spider also had time to bite another person before Peter: Cindy Moon, who got the same abilities as Spider-Man. She later took up the identity of Silk.[3]

However, rather than dying after this, as was assumed, the gamma radiation that the spider absorbed had actually transformed it into a "Hulk-Spider". Additionally, while the two she had bitten gained the abilities and strength of a spider, the spider herself gained the abilities and intelligence of a human. When she awoke she found herself trapped in a glass cage and split in two by the Isotope Genome Accelerator.[1]

A student by the name of Carl King, who witnessed Peter being bitten and connected it with the appearance of Spider-Man, broke into the facility ate one of the two spiders, hoping to gain the same powers of Spider-Man. His body began to break down over time, mutating him into a swarm of a thousand spiders sharing a single consciousness known as the Thousand.[4] The other spider maintained a connection to the Thousand until its death, hearing her own voice within each member of the swarm.[1]

Due to having been turned into a Gamma mutate, the original spider not only continued to live on but became capable of increasing her size to massive proportions. Though originally mute, she quickly learned to speak under the tutelage of the scientist who adopted her and gave her the name "Goddess". Many years later, their lab was destroyed by the Green Goblin during a fight with Silk and Spider-Man. Feeling her connection to the two of them and inspired by their heroism, Goddess left her adopted father's lab to become a hero of her own.

Description
A spider got caught in a radiation test at a public exhibition demonstrating the safe handling of nuclear laboratory waste materials, sponsored by the General Techtronics Corporation. The radiation, however, seemed to be slowly killing it. Before it died it managed to bite a student from Midtown High named of Peter Parker. The spider's venom caused changes to Peter's DNA that gave him certain abilities of a spider, such as the proportionate strength and agility along with the ability to climb on any surface. He could now react to danger quickly with a "spider-sense".[2]

The spider also had time to bite another person before Peter: Cindy Moon, who got the same abilities as Spider-Man. She later took up the identity of Silk.[3]

However, rather than dying after this, as was assumed, the gamma radiation that the spider absorbed had actually transformed it into a "Hulk-Spider". Additionally, while the two she had bitten gained the abilities and strength of a spider, the spider herself gained the abilities and intelligence of a human. When she awoke she found herself trapped in a glass cage and split in two by the Isotope Genome Accelerator.[1]

A student by the name of Carl King, who witnessed Peter being bitten and connected it with the appearance of Spider-Man, broke into the facility ate one of the two spiders, hoping to gain the same powers of Spider-Man. His body began to break down over time, mutating him into a swarm of a thousand spiders sharing a single consciousness known as the Thousand.[4] The other spider maintained a connection to the Thousand until its death, hearing her own voice within each member of the swarm.[1]

Due to having been turned into a Gamma mutate, the original spider not only continued to live on but became capable of increasing her size to massive proportions. Though originally mute, she quickly learned to speak under the tutelage of the scientist who adopted her and gave her the name "Goddess". Many years later, their lab was destroyed by the Green Goblin during a fight with Silk and Spider-Man. Feeling her connection to the two of them and inspired by their heroism, Goddess left her adopted father's lab to become a hero of her own.