Venom Fact — October 25, 2026

Today's Fact

Verified against multiple independent sources. Issue numbers cited below.

VENOM'S SEVENTH CHILD IS A CHEMICAL-WEAPON SYMBIOTE NAMED SLEEPER!

The Featured Fact

Carnage had a younger sibling nobody talks about — and it fights with chemistry instead of teeth. In Venom: First Host #3 (2018), by Mike Costa and Mark Bagley, the Venom symbiote spawns its seventh offspring inside an Alchemax laboratory tank, and Eddie Brock names the newborn Sleeper.

Sleeper’s gift is chemokinesis: it manufactures and releases pheromones and compounds that can calm a room, knock people unconscious, or nudge a target’s mind where Sleeper wants it. Where its brothers and sisters grew claws and blades, the seventh child grew a pharmacy.

The family drama escalated fast. Sleeper later lobotomized the Kree soldier Tel-Kar — the symbiote’s forgotten first host — and took his body off-world, leaving Eddie behind on Earth while his youngest kid toured the galaxy wearing a dead soldier.

Why It's Obscure

Seven spawns in, the Venom family tree stopped producing brawlers and produced a pharmacist with mind-control side effects.

The count. Carnage was the first spawn, the Life Foundation five came next, and Sleeper arrived seventh — quietly, in a glass tank, decades of continuity later. The baby of the family is the one with the lab coat energy.

2018

First Host. Costa and Bagley introduced Sleeper during the Tel-Kar storyline, tying the newest offspring directly to the oldest host. Marvel family reunions are just HR incidents with better art.

CHEMO

The power set. Sleeper secretes tailored chemicals on instinct — sedatives, stimulants, obedience pheromones. It does not need to win the fight if it can reschedule your brain chemistry.

Gallery

Art of the character — no AI imagery, nothing mislabeled.

Sleeper symbiote, black and yellow with red eyes, comic art — **Sleeper**Sleeper in its black-and-yellow form, red eyes blazing — Venom’s seventh spawn, visually confirmed here in its signature colors.

Sleeper symbiote debut art from Venom First Host — **The Newborn**Sleeper as introduced in the First Host era — a symbiote built for chemistry, not carnage.

Venom comic panel art — **The Parent**Venom, the symbiote whose offspring keep rewriting its family history.

Sources

Every claim above is verified against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Sleeper (Symbiote) — Marvel DatabaseRecords Sleeper as the seventh spawn of the Venom symbiote, born at Alchemax in Venom: First Host #3, with chemokinetic abilities and the later lobotomy of Tel-Kar.
Venom’s offspring Sleeper — ScreenRantCovers Sleeper’s 2018 debut and chemical-based powers as the youngest of Venom’s children.