<<

29 LGY#194 CATES ROSS ABURTOV

RATED T+ $3.99 US 0 2 9 1 1

7 5 9 6 0 6 0 8 9 9 7 0 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! DISGRACED REPORTER STUMBLED UPON AN AGGRESSIVE ALIEN ORGANISM CALLED A DURING ONE OF THE LOWEST POINTS OF HIS LIFE. THE TWO WERE JOINED AND USED THEIR COMBINED LUST FOR VIOLENCE TO MAKE THEIR CITY SAFER AS THE LETHAL PROTECTOR…

DONNY CATES WRITER LUKE ROSS ARTIST JESUS ABURTOV COLOR ARTIST BEYOND PART 4 VC’s CLAYTON AFTER ACCIDENTALLY TRAVELING THROUGH AN INTERDIMENSIONAL GATE WHILE COWLES FIGHTING WITH THE VILLAIN VIRUS, EDDIE BROCK AND HIS SON DYLAN FOUND LETTERER THEMSELVES IN AN UNRECOGNIZABLE NEW YORK CITY RUN BY A MAN NAMED CODEX.

RYAN STEGMAN, JP THIS UNFAMILIAR LANDSCAPE IS FILLED WITH A HIVE OF SYMBIOTES THAT MAYER & FRANK MARTIN REPLACED HUMANITY, SAVE FOR A FEW HUMAN REBEL SOLDIERS LED BY THIS COVER ARTISTS UNIVERSE’S AGENT VENOM: EDDIE’S EX-WIFE, ANNIE WEYING!

AARON KUDER ANNIE REVEALS TO EDDIE THAT IN THIS UNIVERSE, EDDIE DIED AND ANNIE & JASON KEITH; BECAME VENOM. DURING THE REVEAL OF ANNIE’S TEAM OF AGENTS—INCLUDING RYAN STEGMAN PETER PARKER, WADE WILSON, ANDI BENTON AND CLETUS KASADY—THEY WERE & FRANK MARTIN ATTACKED BY A WAVE OF SYMBIOTES SENT BY CODEX; THEY NARROWLY ESCAPE VARIANT COVER ARTISTS THANKS TO AN EXPLOSION CAUSED BY AGENT .

ANTHONY GAMBINO MEANWHILE, CODEX UNMASKED VIRUS, EXPOSING HIS IDENTITY AS MAC GARGAN— DESIGNER THE ORIGINAL AND ONE-TIME HOST TO THE VENOM SYMBIOTE—WHO DANNY KHAZEM BLAMED EDDIE FOR PARALYZING HIS LEGS. CODEX PROVIDED MAC WITH A ASSISTANT EDITOR SYMBIOTE UNDER THE CONDITION HE MUST WORK FOR HIM; MAC GARGAN AGREED DEVIN LEWIS EDITOR AND ONCE AGAIN BECAME THE SCORPION. NICK LOWE EXECUTIVE EDITOR AFTER VENOM AND ANNIE’S TEAM REACH THEIR SAFE HOUSE—A LAB RUN BY THIS C.B. CEBULSKI UNIVERSE’S —ANNIE REVEALED THAT CODEX IS THIS UNIVERSE’S EDITOR IN CHIEF DYLAN BROCK!

VENOM No. 29, December 2020. Published Monthly by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104. BULK MAIL POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK, NY AND AT ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES. © 2020 MARVEL No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. $3.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. Subscription rate (U.S. dollars) for 12 issues: U.S. $26.99; Canada $42.99; Foreign $42.99. POSTMASTER: SEND ALL ADDRESS CHANGES TO VENOM, C/O MARVEL SUBSCRIPTIONS P.O. BOX 727 NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040. TELEPHONE # (888) 511-5480. FAX # (347) 537-2649. subscriptions@ marvel.com. KEVIN FEIGE, Chief Creative Officer; DAN BUCKLEY, President, Marvel Entertainment; JOHN NEE, Publisher; JOE QUESADA, EVP & Creative Director; DAVID BOGART, Associate Publisher & SVP of Talent Affairs; TOM BREVOORT, SVP of Publishing; DAVID GABRIEL, VP of Print & Digital Publishing; JEFF YOUNGQUIST, VP of Production & Special Projects; DAN CARR, Executive Director of Publishing Technology; ALEX MORALES, Director of Publishing Operations; DAN EDINGTON, Managing Editor; RICKEY PURDIN, Director of Talent Relations; SUSAN CRESPI, Production Manager; , Chairman Emeritus. For information regarding advertising in or on Marvel.com, please contact Vit DeBellis, Custom Solutions & Integrated Advertising Manager, at [email protected]. For Marvel subscription inquiries, please call 888-511-5480. Manufactured between 09/25/2020 and 10/05/2020 by FRY COMMUNICATIONS, MECHANICSBURG, PA, USA.