Carlton Drake

A shadowy figure born from the Copper Age ambitions of David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane, Carlton Drake made his Marvel debut in The Amazing Spider-Man #298 in 1988 and has cast a long shadow ever since — still turning up in the pages of Venom and Venom War nearly four decades later. He's a character who gravitates toward some of Marvel's most viscerally intense corners, sharing pages with the likes of Venom, Eddie Brock, and Spider-Man himself. With 22 catalog appearances spread across titles like Cult of Carnage: Misery, Drake is the kind of quietly persistent presence that rewards readers who dig beneath the surface of the symbiote saga.