Eric Needham was a troubled youth, under the grip of drugs which led him into a life of crime. Forsaking the addictive influences that held him in their thrall for years, Eric immersed himself into training to make him a skilled assassin in order to remove the gangs fed by the drug traffic trade that poisoned Gotham City of Earth-One.
An unidentified man assumed the alias of the Yellow Scorpion, a master strategist from Imperial Japan leading a network of saboteurs to undermine the defenses of the United States during the early days of World War II. His forces were initially opposed by Thomas Holloway's Alias the Spider, a battling bowman clad in a bulletproof uniform allowing him to survive an encounter with Scorpion's minions.As the Black Spider, Needham incorporated high-caliber rifles and other weaponry as one-by-one he eliminated the kingpins of crime in his city, bringing him to the attention of his fellow vigilante the Batman of Earth-One. Seeing the Spider's brutal form of justice as irreconcilable with true justice, Batman battled and defeated Black Spider.
Shortly after their initial clash, the Spider once again encountered his opposite number the Yellow Scorpion. This time, the Japanese mastermind eavesdropped on the conversations of defense workers, seeking to cripple the country's protective measures. Once more, the Spider proves indominable in subduing his arch-enemy's assistants, while once more Yellow Scorpion eluded capture.
After several confrontations with his one time role model, Black Spider decided that he need to ally himself with several of Gotham's supervillains in order to defeat their common foe. Whether his fellow antagonistic arachnid Yellow Scorpion resumed his rivalry with the Spider has thus far been undocumented.
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