>>149419139>>149419193>>149419209Kraven notoriously wasn't originally a Spider-man villain. They just couldn't get him to work and catch on but they knew he was a fucking A-list concept so he kept getting shuffled between books until he got "last chanced" in what was the then traditional Marvel method of trying to salvage a character the office liked, which was to put him on a team and hope for the best.
So the result is he's a character that inherently has legs outside of just being a guy who fucks up Spider-man, but there's a long history of "We know this idea is good but fucked if we know how to get it to work outside of Spider-man consistently."