While hunting for a legendary lion in Zimbabwe, Kraven found his prey already slain by a gigantic spider, which attacked Kraven soon after, only for Kraven to slay his new target. Months later, he adopted the pseudonym Hunter-Spider, and was commissioned by J. Jonah Jameson to rid animal-themed costumed supervillains from New York City. Successful, Kraven was at home admiring his private collection of stuffed victories when his spider-sense alerted him to a flurry of wasps breaching his residence. Catching and consuming the wasps, laced with psychotropic poisons, Kraven's augmented immune system allowed him to sense the formidability of their controlling consciousness. He sought out Madame Web soon after to hunt said consciousness, subsequently accepted into the Multiversal Spider-Army.^[1]