Schedule Monthly Genre Superhero Number of issues 6 Publisher Marvel Comics | Format Limited series Publication date February – July 1993 Writer David Michelinie Main characters Eddie Brock, Venom | |
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Penciller(s) Mark Bagley (#1-3)
Ron Lim (#4-6)
Sam DeLarosa (#4-6) Similar Venom, Planet of the Symbiotes, Venom: Separation Anxiety, Venom vs Carnage, Web of Spider‑Man | ||
Venom: Lethal Protector was a six-issue comic book limited series featuring the Eddie Brock Venom, published by Marvel Comics from February 1993 to July 1993. It was written by David Michelinie and illustrated mostly by Mark Bagley, although Ron Lim and series colorist Sam DeLarosa pencilled the last three issues.
Contents
This marked the first time Eddie Brock received a series in which he was the main character, and recast Venom from an unambiguous villain to an anti-hero.
Story
Before the story begins, Venom makes an agreement with Spider-Man that they will leave each other alone, on the condition that Venom commits no crimes. Venom then moves from New York City to San Francisco, and takes up with a group of Californian mole people. Shortly thereafter the father of one of Venom's victims seeks him out with a group of super-powered mercenaries to take revenge.
Spider-Man, seeing misleading coverage of Venom on television, heads to San Francisco to confront him and instead winds up fighting alongside Venom against five new offspring of the Venom Symbiote: Scream, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Agony.
Collected editions
In July 1995, the series was collected in a trade paperback with a cover by Simon Bisley (ISBN 0-7851-0107-1).
In February 2011, the series was reprinted in a collected trade paperback, complete with a new cover (the same cover as #1 of the series).
