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Venom|Lethal Protector #1 Red Foil Var

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Description:  enom|Lethal|Protector #1 (published February 1993) %u2013 script by David Michelinie, pencils by Mark Bagley, inks by Sam de la Rosa and Al Milgrom With Marvel ending its Flash Thompson Venom series after 42 issues just this past comic book week, I thought it was worth looking back at the evil symbiote%u2019s inaugural solo appearance %u2013 back in the days when Eddie Brock was bonded to the alien and Venom was best left alone in a short, six-issue mini-series %u2013 the red foil covered Venom Lethal Protector #1. For those who keep track of these things, in addition to the red cover, there is a much rarer gold foil retailer incentive and a black misprint variant version of this comic. But what about inside the comic? The publication of the Venom Lethal Protector mini-series marked a confluence of Venom%u2019s peak-level popularity which had been exponentially building dating back to his first ever appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #300, and Marvel%u2019s desire to capitalize on all things Spider-Man during the comic book industry%u2019s boom period. Spider-Man group editor Danny Fingeroth was a busy man in 1993, already overseeing Amazing, Spectacular, Web of and %u201Cadjective-less%u201D Spider-Man (with Spider-Man Unlimited on the way). Still, even with the market%u2019s oversaturation of Spider-Man comics, for the first issue of Venom Lethal Protector, Fingeroth was able to secure the Webhead%u2019s %u201CA%u201D creative team of David Michelinie and Mark Bagley, who were both also working on Amazing. Ron Lim would come on to do pencils for issues #4-6 of the mini, but Michelinie maintained scripting duties throughout. The mini also marks Venom%u2019s %u201Cofficial%u201D transition from moral-ambiguous villain to Wolverine/Punisher-esque anti-hero. Michelinie and Bagley set the story in San Francisco but, even with the change of scenery from Manhattan, the creative team can%u2019t help but insert Spider-Man into the mini%u2019s very first issue. I%u2019ve never read anywhere definitively that this was due to Marvel%u2019s lack of trust in Venom as the undisputed %u201Cstar%u201D of his own series, but it%u2019s a curiosity all the same to see Spidey show up so soon in Brock%u2019s first comic.
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