1 RATED T+ | $3.99 US 0 0 1 1 1 CANTWELL 7 5 9 6 0 6 2 0 0 1 4 6 LARROCA BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! GURU-eFX KNULL, THE PRIMORDIAL AND MALICIOUS GOD OF THE SYMBIOTES, HAS BEEN FREED FROM HIS PRISON AT THE EDGE OF THE GALAXY. KNULL, THE PRIMORDIAL AND MALICIOUS GOD OF THE SYMBIOTES, HAS BEEN FREED FROM HIS PRISON AT THE EDGE OF THE GALAXY. OLDER THAN MEMORY AND IMPRISONED FOR MILENNIA, THE GODKING OF THE OLDER THAN MEMORY AND IMPRISONED FOR MILLENNIA, THE GODKING ABYSS HAS LED A HORDE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SYMBIOTE DRAGONS OF THE ABYSS HAS LED A HORDE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ACROSS THE COSMOS WITH A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION AND DEATH IN THEIR WAKE. OF SYMBIOTE DRAGONS ACROSS THE COSMOS, WITH A TRAIL OF NOW, THEY HAVE ARRIVED TO EARTH -- THE GALAXY’S FINAL LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST DESTRUCTION AND DEATH IN THEIR WAKE. THE KING IN BLACK. NOW, THEY HAVE ARRIVED ON EARTH -- THE GALAXY’S FINAL LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST THE KING IN BLACK. GENIUS INDUSTRIALIST TONY STARK PROTECTS DOCTOR VICTOR VON DOOM HAS LONG USED HIS TALENTS FOR HUMANITY AS THE ARMORED AVENGER IRON MAN. SORCERY AND TECHNOLOGY FOR BOTH GREAT GOOD AND GREAT EVIL. RECENTLY, A DARKNESS BEGAN TO STIR IN THE SYMBIOTIC ANTIHERO CALLED VENOM -- SOMETHING ANCIENT, PRIMORDIAL AND FULL OF MALICE, REACHING OUT FROM THE CREATURE’S HOMEWORLD: KNULL, THE CREATOR AND GOD OF THE SYMBIOTES. VENOM’S NIGHTMARES HAVE BEEN MADE MANIFEST, AS THE LORD OF THE ABYSS, THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE SYMBIOTES, THE KING IN BLACK, HAS ARRIVED ON EARTH. IN THE MIDST OF BATTLING KNULL’S DRAGONS, IRON MAN CREATED A NEW VERSION OF HIS EXTREMIS ARMOR THAT COMBINES HIS TECH WITH A SYMBIOTE, THOUGH SEEMINGLY AT THE COST OF EDDIE BROCK’S LIFE. CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL WRITER SALVADOR LARROCA ARTIST GURU-eFX COLORIST // VC’S TRAVIS LANHAM LETTERER SALVADOR LARROCA & GURU-eFX COVER ARTISTS DAN MORA & TAMRA BONVILLAIN VARIANT COVER ARTISTS IKING IN BLACK: IRON MAN/DOOM No. 1, February 2021. Published as a One-Shot by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a PAT McGRATH LOGO DESIGN subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104. © ANTHONY GAMBINO DESIGN 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 MARTIN BIRO ASSISTANT EDITOR purely coincidental. $3.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. KEVIN FEIGE, Chief ALANNA SMITH ASSOCIATE EDITOR Creative Officer; DAN BUCKLEY, President, Marvel Entertainment; JOHN NEE, Publisher; JOE QUESADA, EVP & Creative Director; DAVID BOGART, Associate Publisher & SVP of Talent TOM BREVOORT EDITOR 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 C.B. CEBULSKI EDITOR IN CHIEF Technology; ALEX MORALES, Director of Publishing Operations; DAN EDINGTON, Managing Editor; RICKEY PURDIN, Director of Talent Relations; SUSAN CRESPI, Production Manager; STAN LEE, Chairman IRON MAN CREATED BY STAN LEE, LARRY LIEBER, DON HECK & JACK KIRBY 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 11/20/2020 and 12/14/2020 by FRY DOCTOR DOOM CREATED BY STAN LEE & JACK KIRBY COMMUNICATIONS, MECHANICSBURG, PA, USA. .