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7 5 9 6 0 6 0 8 9 9 7 0 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! DISGRACED REPORTER EDDIE BROCK STUMBLED UPON AN AGGRESSIVE ALIEN ORGANISM CALLED A DURING ONE OF THE LOWEST POINTS OF HIS LIFE. SHARING A SIMILAR NEED FOR JUSTICE IN THE FORM OF VENGANCE, THE SYMBIOTE BONDED WITH EDDIE AND THEIR UNION GRANTED HIM POWERS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF SPIDER-MAN, AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF OTHER UNIQUE ABILITIES. TOGETHER, THEY NOW FIGHT CRIME AS THE WICKED WEB-SLINGER CALLED

VENOM ATTEMPTED TO HELP REX STRICKLAND, A VIETNAM VETERAN AND FORMER S.H.I.E.L.D. LAB RAT, RESCUE HIS OLD PLATOON MEMBERS FROM A DECADES-LONG S.H.I.E.L.D. IMPRISONMENT FOLLOWING A TOP-SECRET SYMBIOTE EXPERIMENT. THEIR RESCUE MISSION WENT SIDEWAYS AS THEY DISCOVERED THAT REX’S SQUADMATES HAD BEEN CONSUMED BY THEIR SYMBIOTES AND WHAT THEY HAD UNLEASHED WAS AN ANCIENT SYMBIOTE--A MASSIVE KLYNTAR DRAGON!

VENOM JOINED FORCES WITH SPIDER-MAN, A.K.A. MILES MORALES, IN ORDER TO TAKE DOWN THE CREATURE WREAKING HAVOC ON THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN AND ON EDDIE’S CONNECTION TO HIS SYMBIOTE. USING SPIDER-MAN’S VENOM BLAST, THEY WERE ABLE TO TEAR THE BEAST ASUNDER--ONLY TO REVEAL SOMETHING MUCH SCARIER THAN A MONSTER UNDERNEATH…A GOD.

DONNY CATES WRITER RYAN STEGMAN PENCILER JP MAYER INKER

FRANK MARTIN COLOR ARTIST VC’s CLAYTON COWLES LETTERER

RYAN STEGMAN, JP MAYER & FRANK MARTIN COVER ARTISTS

ANTHONY GAMBINO LAUREN AMARO DEVIN LEWIS NICK LOWE TITLE PAGE DESIGN ASSISTANT EDITOR EDITOR EXECUTIVE EDITOR

C.B. CEBULSKI JOE QUESADA DAN BUCKLEY ALAN FINE EDITOR IN CHIEF CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

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