VENOM ISLAND PART IV LGY# CATES∙BAGLEY∙OWENS∙MARTIN 24 189 RATED T+ | $3.99 US 0 2 4 1 1 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 SYMBIOTE 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… CARNAGE HAS INFECTED THE VENOM SYMBIOTE. STRANDED ON A DESERTED ISLAND THAT CARNAGE HAS TRANSFORMED INTO A DEATH TRAP, EDDIE BROCK SEVERED HIS OWN HAND TO AVOID THE CARNAGE SYMBIOTE’S ATTEMPT TO CORRUPT HIM. AS EDDIE STRUGGLED WITH HIS AMPUTATION TO REACH A RADIO TOWER FOR HELP, HIS SON, DYLAN, INFILTRATED THE HIVE MIND TO LOCATE KNULL, FATHER OF THE SYMBIOTES—BUT SAW EDDIE FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE. EDDIE SEPARATED VENOM AND CARNAGE BY ELECTROCUTING THEM—AND HIMSELF— BY USING THE RADIO TOWER AS A LIGHTNING ROD, BUT FELL UNCONSCIOUS AS BOTH SYMBIOTES RACED TO REACH HIM. EDDIE AWOKE ALONE TO THE SIGHT OF CAPTAIN AMERICA AS THEY FLED THE ISLAND IN A HELICOPTER. AS EDDIE BEGGED TO RETRIEVE THE VENOM SYMBIOTE, A MISSILE FLEW PAST THE ISLAND, NUKING IT OUT OF EXISTENCE! DONNY CATES WRITER MARK BAGLEY PENCILER ANDY OWENS INKER FRANK MARTIN COLOR ARTIST VC’s CLAYTON COWLES LETTERER MARK BAGLEY, ANDY OWENS & JASON KEITH COVER ARTISTS ROCK-HE KIM [SPIDER-WOMAN] VARIANT COVER ARTIST DANNY KHAZEM ASSISTANT EDITOR DEVIN LEWIS EDITOR NICK LOWE EXECUTIVE EDITOR C.B. CEBULSKI EDITOR IN CHIEF VENOM No. 24, May 2020. Published Monthly except in June 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. [email protected]. 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; SUSAN CRESPI, Production Manager; STAN LEE, Chairman Emeritus. For information regarding advertising in Marvel Comics 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 02/14/2020 and 02/24/2020 by CENVEO, RICHMOND, VA, USA. .