Marvel Comics Universe & September 2018 Solicitations Spoilers: Venom First Host Reveals Surprising First Host To Symbiote & It Is NOT Eddie Brock Or Peter Parker!

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Marvel Comics Universe and September 2018 Solicitations Spoilers follow.

Venom First Host Reveals Surprising First Host To Symbiote and It Is NOT Eddie Brock Or Peter Parker! Covers and solicits below.

VENOM: FIRST HOST #2 (of 5)
MIKE COSTA (W) • MARK BAGLEY (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY ROD REIS

The mystery of VENOM’S first host continues to unfold as EDDIE and the VENOM are ambushed by a Skrull only to be saved by an unlikely ally, a Kree soldier named TEL-KAR!

But why are these two following Eddie? And why did TEL-KAR call it HIS symbiote?

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

VENOM: FIRST HOST #3 (of 5)
MIKE COSTA (W) • MARK BAGLEY (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY NICK BRADSHAW

AN ALL-OUT ALIEN INVASION IN MANHATTAN!

After the extraterrestrial ambush of last issue, the Venom symbiote will have to choose between allowing its newborn offspring to die…or separate from Eddie Brock!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

VENOM: FIRST HOST #4 (of 5)
MIKE COSTA (W) • MARK BAGLEY (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY PAULO SIQUEIRA

Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote have been SEPARATED, but Brock isn’t giving up without a fight!

With a pair of unlikely allies, Brock takes the fight to his symbiote’s home turf…outer space!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

VENOM: FIRST HOST #5 (of 5)
MIKE COSTA (W) • MARK BAGLEY (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY JAVIER GARRON

As if things couldn’t get any worse, Tel-Kar, THE FIRST HOST, has set his sights on Earth!

Though this Kree soldier may have been a war hero for his beloved homeworld, he has no such affections for Earth…
…and all that’s standing between him and the planet…IS VENOM!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Part 1 was part of the August 2018 solicits.

VENOM: FIRST HOST #1 (of 5)
MIKE COSTA (W) • MARK BAGLEY (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY PAOLO RIVERA
VARIANT COVER BY JOHN CASSADAY
VARIANT COVER BY ROD REIS

MIKE COSTA AND MARK BAGLEY REUNITE FOR A VENOM STORY UNLIKE ANY OTHER!

Before the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN…before VENOM… There was the FIRST HOST. And that First Host has returned  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?!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

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