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*July 2018 — July 2021

*'''Vol. 5''':

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*'''Vol. 1 (resumed)''': 16

*'''Vol. 4''': 35

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| main_char_team = [[Venom (Marvel Comics character)|Venom symbiote]]<br />[[Eddie Brock]]<br />Patricia Robertson<br />[[Flash Thompson]]<br />[[Dylan Brock]]

The fifth and current ongoing volume of ''Venom'' is written by Al Ewing, Ram V, and Torunn Grønbekk with art by Bryan Hitch, CAFU, Rogê Antônio, Ramón Bachs, Ken Lashley, Sergio Fernandez Dávila, Julius Ohta, and Rafael T. Pimentel. The first issue, cover-dated January 2022, went on sale November 10th 2021. It stars Dylan Brock, son of Eddie Brock, as Venom's latest host while Eddie Brock establishes himself as the new King in Black following Knull's death.

 

 

===''Venom: Lethal Protector'' (1993)===

This was a three-part series published between August and October 1993. The story continued Brock's adventures in San Francisco, dealing with street gangs in an uneasy alliance with the [[Punisher]], and saw the creation of the villain Pyre.{{sfn|Potts|October 1993}} According to DCD's 300 bestselling issues of 1993, ''Venom: Funeral Pyre'' #1 was number 72; sales declined for ''Funeral Pyre'' #2 and #3, which appeared at numbers 238 and 295 respectively.<ref name="1993Sales"/>

 

*Writer: [[Ann Nocenti]]

*Penciler: [[Kelley Jones]]

In a four-part series published between August and November 1994, Brock teams up with the anti-hero [[Vengeance (comics)#Lt. Michael Badilino|Vengeance]] to fight the Stalkers, a group of alien-technology-enhanced humans who have kidnapped Beck (and others) with Venom's protection. This series also introduces another romantic interest for Brock (Elizabeth, a doctor) in addition to Beck. It also begins a plot thread in which Brock is informed that there are other symbiotic hosts like himself.{{sfn|Mackie|August 1994}}

 

{{Main|Venom: Separation Anxiety}}

* Writer: Howard Mackie

This three-part finale to the ''Venom'' series was published between November 1997 and January 1998. The Overreach Committee (the organization in charge of Brock's clandestine agency) decides to terminate him because of his brutal methods. Brock cuts the bomb from his chest, and uses it to escape. His escape brings him into a confrontation with Spider-Man. After a fight with Spider-Man and an injection of [[dopamine]] blockers by Agent Smith, Brock is separated from the symbiote (which is apparently killed when Brock is re-arrested).{{sfn|Hama|November 1997}} The final issue sees Brock recover some memory of his history with Spider-Man; he had lost his knowledge of the hero's secret identity in the ''Spider-Man/Venom'' single issue (December 1997).{{sfn|Hama|November 1997|loc=Issue 2|p=17}}{{sfn|Hama|November 1997|loc=Issue 3|pp=13-15}}

 

[[File:Daniel-Way-Flipped-Horizontal.jpg|thumb|alt=Man seated in front of microphone, shading his eyes and pointing to audience member|[[Daniel Way]] wrote the 2003–2004 series.]]

* Writer: [[Daniel Way]]

An eighteen-issue monthly series, published under the [[Tsunami (Marvel Comics)|Tsunami]] imprint between June 2003 and November 2004, follows U.S. Army communications specialist Patricia Robertson. During a supply run to an outpost owned by the Ararat Corporation, she discovers that all the scientists except one have been killed. The Ararat Corporation is run by an alien colony of miniature spider robots (led by an entity named Bob) that have infiltrated the U.S. government. The Ararat Corporation has cloned Venom to facilitate the extermination of humanity; however, the clone ravages its hosts and kills the outpost crew.{{sfn|Way|2003|}}

 

 

* Writer: [[Rick Remender]] <!--, Rob Williams (13.1-13.2), Jeff Parker (13.3), Cullen Bunn (17, 18) -->

* Penciler: [[Tony Moore (artist)|Tony Moore]]<!--(#1-2, 4-5, 13-14)-->, Tom Fowler<!--(3, 5, 6-8)-->, Lan Medina <!-- (10-12, 13.4, 15, 18)--><!-- for info sake these are here for future use, but for space sake, the section is limited to participants of multiple issues - , Stefano Caselli (9), Lee Garbett (13.1), Sana Takeda (13.2), Julian Tedesco (13.3), Kev Walker (16-17) -->

According to DCD, Remender's ''Venom'' #1 was the 128th-bestselling single issue of 2011 (based on an estimated 65,600 issues shipped). ''Venom'' #2 was number 389; sales dropped for each successive issue for the year, finishing at number 802 with ''Venom'' #11 (based on an estimated 28,700 issues shipped).<ref name="2011Sales"/> ''Venom'' #22 (October 2012), Remender's final issue, sold an estimated 26,734 issues.<ref name="2012SalesAugust"/> The trade paperback ''Venom Volume 1'' (''Venom'' #1-5) was the 134th-bestselling trade paperback of 2012, followed by ''Circle of Four'' at number 359 and ''Savage Six'' at number 407.<ref name="2012Sales"/> ''Venom'' #6-9 appeared in the ''Spider-Island'' trade paperback,<ref name="TPBSI1"/> which was listed at number 466.<ref name="2012Sales"/>

 

* Writer: Cullen Bunn

* Penciler: Thony Silas

In Philadelphia, Thompson gains employment as a high school gym coach,{{sfn|Bunn|March 2013 32|pp=8-11}} while as Venom he comes into conflict with the [[U-Foes]], who kidnap and experiment on victims with alien technology. When the U-Foes knock Venom, the demon takes control of his body and uses the alien technology to teleport the villains to their apparent death in space. Kiernan and Thompson's lover Valkyrie later return home, leaving Venom alone. Brock returns as Toxin in ''Venom'' #30,{{sfn|Bunn|March 2013|pp=20-21}} to pursue Thompson while he himself is hunting the result of one of the U-Foes experiments: an alien-lifeform infested human turned into a cannibal. Thompson and Brock's fight liberates the aliens who begin infecting and transforming other humans to target their new enemies: Venom and Toxin.{{sfn|Bunn|March 2013 32|pp=14-17}}{{sfn|Bunn|April 2013|pp=10,15,19-22}} Together, Thompson and Brock defeat the aliens, and afterwards Brock calls a truce with Thompson, promising that the Venom symbiote will inevitably take over Thompson, and that he will return to kill him when that happens.{{sfn|Bunn|May 2013|pp=11-20}} ''Venom'' #39 sees the return of Jack, and the introduction of the new symbiote character Mania—Thompson's teenage student Andi who bonds with a spawn of the Venom symbiote when Thompson uses it to protect her from Jack. Jack kills Mania's father, and is revealed to be merely a man who was brainwashed by some of Jack's technology into believing he is the real Jack. According to Bunn, when he envisioned a new symbiote character Andi was not intended to be the host, but as the series progressed his plans changed.{{sfn|Bunn|October 2013|pp=8-10}}<ref name="Venom2011Mania"/> It is revealed that Mania's symbiote is the cloned symbiote from Way's 2003 ''Venom'' series. The symbiote expelled the clone, and the demonic brand along with it, passing it to Mania. When a team led by [[Crossbones (comics)|Crossbones]] starts killing the brand bearers and taking the brands for themselves, Venom and Mania manage to fight them off with assistance from Mephisto. Mephisto then departs after telling Thompson that the deal he made in exchange for the brand was with the symbiote, not Thompson. The series ends with Thompson admitting that despite his issues with his father, he had always wanted to be a dad, and that he will now take responsibility for Benton.<ref name="Venom2011End2"/>{{sfn|Bunn|"Mania"|pp=7, 9, 19-21|loc=Issue 42}}<ref name="2013Venom42"/>

 

* Writer: [[Donny Cates]] (#1-12, #16-35), Cullen Bunn (#13-15)

*Penciler: [[Ryan Stegman]] (#1–6, #9-11, #35), [[Iban Coello]] (#7-8, #13-15, #17-20, #26, #31-34), [[Joshua Cassara]] (#11–12), Juan Gedeon (#16, #26-28), [[Mark Bagley]] (#21-25), [[Luke Ross]] (#29-30)

Part of the [[Fresh Start (comics)|Fresh Start]] relaunch, with Eddie Brock as the focus and introduced both Dylan Brock, Eddie's son, and [[Knull (character)|Knull]], the King in Black and god of the symbiotes.{{sfn|Cates|"Rex"|pp=1|loc=Issue 1}}

 

 

*Writer: [[Al Ewing]] (#1, 5, 8-10, 13-14, 16-22, 24-25, 29-30), Ram V. (#1-4, 6-7, 11-12, 15), Torunn Grønbekk (#23, 26-28, 31-32)

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