Issues #16 - 20 -- "Venom" 5-issue storyline The power-hungry Dr. Randolph Porter and the power-hungry Army General Timothy Slayton are both power-hungry! Porter develops habit-forming pills that can make individuals strong, indestructible, and ruthless. Slayton wants to create an army of Super Mans. The only one who can stop them, Batman, has become addicted to Porter's magic pills! This is a pickle of the highest degree! Will Batman succeed in thwarting the evil Porter and Slayton (yes, dingus, of course).