Venom (comic book)

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Venom
The cover of Venom: Lethal Protector #1, February 1993. The first Venom solo comic. Art by Mark Bagley.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	(consecutive limited series) February 1993 – January 1998 Vol. 1: June 2003 – November 2004 Vol. 2: April 2011 – October 2013 Vol. 3: January 2017 – June 2017 Vol. 1 (resumed): July 2017 – June 2018 Vol. 4: July 2018 — July 2021 Vol. 5: October 2021 — present
No. of issues	(consecutive limited series): 60 Vol. 1: 18 Vol. 2: 42 Vol. 3: 6 Vol. 1 (resumed): 16 Vol. 4: 35 Vol. 5: 29
Main character(s)	Venom symbiote Eddie Brock Patricia Robertson Flash Thompson Dylan Brock
Creative team
Written by	Donny Cates (vol. 4)

Venom is the title of several American comic book series published by Marvel Comics focusing on the various heroic and villainous incarnations of the character Venom, which have usually consisted of a human host and amorphous alien being called a symbiote. The first incarnation of the character was the one created by the third and current human host to the symbiote (the first two being Spider-Man and Tel-Kar), Eddie Brock, and—since 2011—its fifth host, Flash Thompson. Beginning with Venom: Lethal Protector, eighteen limited series following Brock's adventures were published monthly between February 1993 and January 1998. A monthly Venom series began publication in 2003, following a new character, Patricia Robertson, and a clone of the original symbiote. The series concluded in 2004 after 18 issues. In 2011 another monthly series, following the adventures of Flash Thompson, was launched. The series resumed with vol. 3, vol. 4, and vol. 5 from 2016 to present.