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, killing any he encountered and having them taxidermied as trophies in his residence. Successful in his latest hunt, 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.^[2]

Kraven was among the Spider-Army when they fought against Shathra and her army.^[3]

Eventually Kraven returned to his reality where he met and fought his world's Cletus Kasady who had bonded to the Venom symbiote and taken on the mantle of Venom. During the fight they were interrupted by the Carnage symbiote of Earth-616 and his host Jon Shayde. While Carnage wanted to kill Kraven, Jon was more focused on Venom, so Carnage simply split from Jon and fought Kraven who seemingly won the fight only for Carnage to gain the upper hand until Morlun arrived and sucked the Inheritor energy from Kraven. Carnage, Morlun, and Kraven then went their separate ways with an understanding of each other and Kraven went back to fighting his world's Venom.^[4]

Sometime later, Kraven would be invited to join the Spider-Society by either Miguel O'Hara of Earth-2099 or Anya Corazon of Earth-616, he would accept amongst others.^[5]

• Spider Physiology: The Zimbabwe super spider which bit Kraven full of its venom augmented him into a Spider-Totem, matching in many physical abilities.^[2]
  • Superhuman Strength: Capable of overpowering the Rhino and dragging him away with one hand.^[2]
  • Superhuman Speed: Able to evade and catch dozens of Shathra's wasps.^[2]
  • Superhuman Durability: Withstood an ambush by the spider that eventually granted him spider powers.^[2]
  • Superhuman Stamina: Augmented by jungle potions long before the spider bite, able to stalk prey for miles before using that energy to battle them into submission.^[2]
  • Superhuman Agility: Able to dodge and maneuver against wasps in a confined space.^[2]
  • Superhuman Reflexes: Was able to meet the ambushing spider and still be able to kill it before gaining spider powers.^[2]
  • Wall-Crawling: Like other Spider-Totems, Kraven can wall-crawl, giving him greater predatory latitude.^[2]

• Seeming those of the Kraven of Earth-616.

• Hunter-Spider's Suit: designed with the every spider which bit him, inspired from his classic Lion's Head Vest.