Venom: Dark Origin #1 (Marvel)
[Goes on sale August 6, written by Zeb Wells; art by Angel Medina, Scott Hanna, Avalon - Matt Milla, and VC - Joe Caramagna; cover by Angel Medina. $2.99.]
On the unlikely day when an embittered, washed-up journalist met a spurned symbiotic organism from an alien planet, one of Spider-Man’s greatest enemies was born – a force of evil and vengeance like no other in the Marvel Universe – VENOM! But is it as simple as that? Discover the true, twisted roots that gave rise to a lifetime of malevolence for Eddie Brock…AND the symbiote! Writer Zeb Wells (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and artist Angel Medina (SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN) shed a little light on one of Marvel’s darkest monsters!

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