VENOM CRAVES BRAINS FOR ONE CHEMICAL — AND CHOCOLATE IS THE LOOPHOLE THAT SAVES EVERYONE!
Venom: The Hunger #1–4 (1996), by Len Kaminski: the symbiote's brain cravings are traced to the neurotransmitter phenethylamine; Dr. Paine exploits it, and Eddie learns chocolate can supply it instead.
READ THE FULL FACT →VENOM IS A GRANDFATHER — AND HIS GRANDSON TOXIN IS THE 1,000TH SYMBIOTE, STRONGER THAN THEM ALL!
Venom vs. Carnage #1–2 (2004), by Peter Milligan & Clayton Crain: Carnage spawns the 1,000th symbiote of the line; Venom names him Toxin as he bonds to NYPD officer Patrick Mulligan and turns hero.
READ THE FULL FACT →VENOM'S SEVENTH CHILD IS A CHEMICAL-WEAPON SYMBIOTE NAMED SLEEPER!
Venom: First Host #3–5 (2018), by Mike Costa & Mark Bagley: the seventh spawn of the Venom symbiote, Sleeper, is born at Alchemax with chemokinetic powers, later lobotomizes the Kree soldier Tel-Kar and takes his body into space.
READ THE FULL FACT →VENOM WAS CONDEMNED TO DEATH BY ITS OWN SPECIES — FOR WANTING TO PROTECT ITS HOST INSTEAD OF USE IT UP!
Planet of the Symbiotes (1995), from Amazing Spider-Man Super Special #1: the Venom symbiote is deemed deranged by its own kind for wanting a single protective bond instead of draining hosts to death, is sealed in a prison canister condemned to disintegration, and is freed by Spider-Man on Battleworld.
READ THE FULL FACT →VENOM'S FIRST HOST WASN'T SPIDER-MAN OR DEADPOOL — IT WAS A KREE SOLDIER NAMED TEL-KAR!
Venom: First Host #1–5 (2018), by Mike Costa & Mark Bagley: the Kree capture the young symbiote and bond it to soldier Tel-Kar as a memory-wiped super-soldier in the Kree-Skrull War, years before Battleworld; decades later, Sleeper lobotomizes Tel-Kar and carries him into space.
READ THE FULL FACT →EDDIE BROCK SOLD VENOM FOR $100 MILLION — AND THE NEW VENOM LASTED ONE LEAP!
Marvel Knights Spider-Man #7–8 (2004), “Venomous”: Eddie Brock auctions the symbiote for charity; Don Fortunato buys it for $100 million for his son Angelo, who bonds, attacks Spider-Man’s school reunion, flees the real fight, and is abandoned by the symbiote mid-air.
READ THE FULL FACT →THE BULLY FROM HIGH SCHOOL BECAME A GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY!
Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 3) #14 (2014): Flash joins as Avengers envoy; Venom: Space Knight #1–13 (2015–2016) follows his cosmic tour.
READ THE FULL FACT →VENOM WAS A RELUCTANT FATHER — A DOOMSDAY CULT HARVESTED FIVE SYMBIOTE KIDS FROM HIM!
Venom: Lethal Protector #1–6 (1993): the Life Foundation extracts symbiote "seeds"; Scream, Lasher, Phage, Agony, and Riot debut in #4 "Deadly Birth!" (1993).
READ THE FULL FACT →DEADPOOL WORE THE SYMBIOTE BEFORE SPIDER-MAN DID!
Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #3 (2015): Thor and Hulk point Wade at the costume machine; he bonds first, then ditches it for creeping on his thoughts. His psyche corrupted the symbiote.
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