Dates
- Cover date
- February 2021
- On sale
- December 2, 2020
- In stores
- December 2, 2020
- Pages
- 60
Editions and covers (47)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Secret Variant - ‘The Thing’
Barcode 75960609863700111 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - ‘Interlocking’ - Leinil Francis Yu Cover
Barcode 75960609863700171
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - ‘Every Symbiote Ever’ - Todd Nauck Wraparound Cover
Barcode 75960609863700181
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Stormbreakers - Natacha Bustos Cover
Barcode 75960609863700127
This edition’s page - 2nd printing
Second Printing - Ryan Stegman Cover
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 75960609863700112
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - The Comic Mint Exclusive - Shannon Maer Cover
Barcode 75960609863700144
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Clayton Crain Website Exclusive - Cover D
Barcode 75960609863700153
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Black Light Limited Edition - Mike McKone Cover
Barcode 75960609863700136
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Scorpion Comics Exclusive - Gabriele Dell'Otto Cover
Barcode 75960609863700121
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Scorpion Comics Exclusive - Gabriele Dell'Otto Virgin Covervirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700131
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Comics Illuminati Exclusive - Tyler Kirkham Virgin Cover Bvirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700156
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Sanctum Sanctorum & Slab City Comics Exclusive - Skan Virgin Covervirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700148
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Past Present Future Comics & GregHornArt.com Exclusive - Cover B
Barcode 75960609863700138
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Golden Apple Comics Exclusive - Jeehyung Lee Cover
Barcode 75960609863700134
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - ComicKingdomofCanada.com Exclusive - Philip Tan Cover
Barcode 75960609863700157
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Comics Illuminati Exclusive - Tyler Kirkham Cover
Barcode 75960609863700154
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Clayton Crain Exclusive - Virgin Cover Bvirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700150
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Frankie's Comics Exclusive - Peach Momoko Cover
Barcode 75960609863700146
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Sanctum Sanctorum & Slab City Comics Exclusive - Skan Cover
Barcode 75960609863700132
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Golden Apple Comics Exclusive - Jeehyung Lee Virgin Covervirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700135
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - ComicKingdomofCanada.com Exclusive - Philip Tan Virgin Covervirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700158
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - The Comic Mint Exclusive - Shannon Maer Virgin Covervirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700145
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Comics Illuminati Exclusive - Tyler Kirkham Virgin Cover Avirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700155
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Clayton Crain Exclusive - 'Black Light' Cover C
Barcode 75960609863700152
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Frankie's Comics Exclusive - Peach Momoko Virgin Covervirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700147
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Black Light Limited Edition - Mike McKone Virgin Covervirgin
Cover art with no logo or cover text.
Barcode 75960609863700140
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Past Present Future Comics & GregHornArt.com Exclusive - Cover A
Barcode 75960609863700137
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Mill Geek Comics & ComicTom101 MMC Exclusive - Nic Klein Cover
Barcode 75960609863700133
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Summit Comics & Games Exclusive - InHyuk Lee Cover
Barcode 75960609863700129
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - Asheville Comics Exclusive - Mirka Andolfo Cover
Barcode 75960609863700142
This edition’s page
Story arc: King in Black
This is part 1 of 7. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
Creators
Stories
- Chapter One: Reign · 40 pages
Despite plans put in place by Eddie and the Avengers, Knull arrives on Earth and starts to kill the light.
- Heirs to the Throne · 2 pages
Publisher’s description
After a campaign across the galaxy, Knull’s death march arrives to Earth and, worse yet, he hasn’t come alone! With an army of hundreds of thousands of symbiote dragons at his command, the King in Black is a force unlike any Earth’s heroes have ever faced. EDDIE BROCK, A.K.A. VENOM has seen firsthand the chaos that even one of Knull’s symbiotic monsters can wreak – will he survive an encounter with the God of the Abyss himself? From Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin and VC’s Clayton Cowles comes the definitive chapter in their two-year-long VENOM saga that changed everything you thought you knew about symbiotes!
Characters
Reprinted in
King in Black (2021), King in Black Omnibus (2022), Venomnibus by Cates & Stegman (2022)