Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black #5

Dates

Cover date

May 2021

On sale

March 31, 2021

In stores

March 31, 2021

Pages

32

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #5 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition

  Barcode 75960609944300511

  Source ↗
• Dave Rapoza Cover

  Barcode 75960609944300521

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Story arc: King in Black

This is part 56 of 62. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Symbiote Spider-Man: King In Black #1
2. Atlantis Attacks #5
3. King in Black #1
4. The Union #1
5. King in Black: Namor #1
6. Venom #31
7. Black Cat #1
8. King In Black: Immortal Hulk #1
9. Symbiote Spider-Man: King In Black #2
10. King in Black #2
11. Spider-Woman #7
12. King in Black: Iron Man / Doom #1
13. King in Black: Namor #2
14. Guardians of the Galaxy #10
15. King in Black: Return of the Valkyries #1
16. Spider-Woman #8
17. Symbiote Spider-Man: King In Black #3
18. Venom #32
19. King in Black: Gwenom vs. Carnage #1
20. King in Black: Planet of the Symbiotes #1
21. King in Black: Thunderbolts #1
22. The Union #2
23. Black Cat #2
24. King in Black #3
25. Daredevil #26
26. Deadpool #10
27. King in Black: Namor #3
28. Savage Avengers #17
29. King in Black: Black Knight #1
30. King in Black: Gwenom vs. Carnage #2
31. King In Black: Marauders #1
32. King in Black: Return of the Valkyries #2
33. Venom #33
34. Daredevil #27
35. Fantastic Four #29
36. King in Black: Black Panther #1
37. King in Black: Thunderbolts #2
38. S.W.O.R.D. #3
39. King in Black #4
40. King in Black: Planet of the Symbiotes #2
41. Miles Morales: Spider-Man #23
42. Savage Avengers #18
43. Black Cat #3
44. King in Black: Namor #4
45. King in Black: Return of the Valkyries #3
46. Symbiote Spider-Man: King In Black #4
47. King in Black: Captain America #1
48. King in Black: Gwenom vs. Carnage #3
49. King in Black: Wiccan and Hulkling #1
50. King in Black: Spider-Man #1
51. S.W.O.R.D. #4
52. King in Black: Scream #1
53. Savage Avengers #19
54. King in Black: Ghost Rider #1
55. King in Black: Return of the Valkyries #4
56. Symbiote Spider-Man: King In Black #5
57. King in Black #5
58. King in Black: Planet of the Symbiotes #3
59. Venom #34
60. Fantastic Four #30
61. King in Black: Namor #5
62. Avengers #45

Creators

Stories

• The Sword and the Spirit Part Five · 20 pages

Publisher’s description

THE COLLISION COURSE WITH THE KING IN BLACK COMES TO A SPACE-SHATTERING CONCLUSION! The god-king of the symbiotes has made his presence known across space and time — will the assembled heroes of Marvel’s yesteryear be enough to stave off his suffocating darkness, or will every corner of the Marvel Universe fall to the KING IN BLACK?!

Reprinted in

Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black (2021), King in Black Omnibus (2022), Kang: The Saga of the Once and Future Conqueror (2022), Symbiote Spider-Man by Peter David Omnibus (2025)