WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Orwell Taylor (The Jury, Marvel) — introduction
Dates
- Cover date
- May 1993
- On sale
- 1993
- In stores
- December 29, 1992
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition$2.95 cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
This edition’s page - Newsstand edition$2.95 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07148601202301 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Australian edition4.50 AUD cover
Australian
Printed cover price 4.50 AUD.
Barcode 07148601202301 · shared with another edition
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Publisher’s description
Venom escaped New York and now resides in San Francisco. Having turned over a new leaf, Venom decides to become a protector of the weak and forgotten. But can this lethal protector truly become a hero? This is a spin off for Venom finally giving him his own series. In this story part one of lethal protector, Eddie Brock moves away to San francisco to help fight crime in his own anti hero way.When he is approached by police wanting to bring him in for the murder of the guard at the vault when he ecaped. He evades them and ends up trying to find somewhaere else for a place to stay when he comes upon people being beaten in the park. Naturally he steps in as venom. The scene cuts and goes to New York City. There peter sees that venom is at large in california. He gets on a plane and starts searching for his black counterpart and finds him. He immediatly thinks venom is killing innocent people and steps in. Venom is angered by spidey breaking their agreement to stay away from one another and fights off the goons fleeing.
Reprinted in
Venom: Lethal Protector (1995), Spider-Man Family (2007), Marvel Firsts: The 1990s Omnibus (2015), Marvel Firsts: The 1990s (2016), Venomnibus (2018), Venom Epic Collection (2020), Spider-Man by Michelinie & Bagley Omnibus (2024)