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Issue Details

Issue #-1
Published July 1997
Cover Price $1.95
Pages 36
Editing Tom Brevoort
Notes Part of Marvel's Flashback month, this is one of the few issues that was a true one-shot and not connected to an ongoing series.

Cover Details - "Flashback"

Characters Eddie Brock [Venom]; Krobaa
Genre superhero
Pencils James Fry
Inks Chris Ivy
Letters Typeset
Notes Part of Marvel's Flashback month, this is one of the few issues that was a true one-shot and not connected to an ongoing series.

22 page Venom story "Krobaa, The Abyss That Walked!"

Characters FEATURE: Eddie Brock [Venom]; GUESTS: Nigel Donlevy; Cal Carlchok; VILLAIN: Krobaa; CAMEO: Stan Lee
Synopsis Long before he became Venom, intrepid reporter Eddie Brock is forced to face down an alien menace who has symbiotically merged with a mad scientist to spread a seed of darkness over earth.
Genre superhero
Script Len Kaminski
Pencils James Fry
Inks Chris Ivy
Colors Tom Smith
Letters Jim Novak
Notes Story is done in the style of an old school monster comic; Stan Lee in his intro refers to himself as the "Script-Keeper" and claims the story is from "The Vault of Unknown Creatures Unleashed."