Mike Costa

Venom is back in his classic form, and deadlier than ever! The symbiote you know and love has returned to New York City. No more "Agent of the Cosmos." No more "Lethal Protector." It's time for a new Venom, and it's great to be bad. But now that Venom is back on Earth and back in the gutter, just who has bonded with him - and turned him back into the slathering, fanged monster? COLLECTING: VENOM 1-6

Reunited, and it feels so good! Or rather, feels so bad! Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote are back together, web-slinging their way around New York again - and a host of creators from the character's near 30-year history are here to celebrate! With questions still lingering about how the symbiote was separated from Flash Thompson, what lies in its future now that it's reunited with Eddie Brock? Will he be the city's lethal protector once again, or revert back to a sadistic, Spider-hating villain? There's only one way to find out! COLLECTING: VENOM 150-153

It's an amazingly lethal Spider-Man/Venom epic!Peter Parker, Eddie Brock and Flash Thompson share a bond - literally! The Venom symbiote changed all of their lives. Now the inky black alien life-form is doubling down on our heroes - and they won't be the only ones put through the wringer. As a familiar face rises to new levels of villainy, Spidey finds himself between Eddie and a mysterious new figure! Black Cat and her gang are confronted by an amped-up villain called Maniac, who will show everyone how well he lives up to his name. And all the while, Venom Inc. weaves its tendrils through New York's criminal underworld... You've never read a Spidey and Venom story like this! COLLECTING: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: VENOM INC. ALPHA 1, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 792-793, VENOM 159-160, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: VENOM INC. OMEGA 1

You've seen things from Eddie Brock's perspective; now see how things look from the other side - from the perspective of the Venom symbiote! COLLECTING: VENOM 154-158

Before the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN...before VENOM... There was the FIRST HOST. The recent reunion of Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote has been a shaky one. As their relationship has been fraught with secrets and lies, they have come to struggle as much with each other as with their own violent impulses. Things don't get any easier when the symbiote's long lost first host returns in need of Venom's help--only by reuniting can the two avert cosmic ruin! Can Eddie and the symbiote trust one another long enough to save the galaxy, or will THE FIRST HOST prove to be Venom's undoing?! Reuniting VENOM superstars Mike Costa and Mark Bagley, THE FIRST HOST is an action-filled epic befitting the Wicked Web-slinger's 30th Anniversary, with twists and turns as only the House of Ideas can provide! COLLECTING: Venom: First Host 1-5