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Eddie Brock
536 appearances · Copper/Modern Age · 1988–2026 · 9 key issues
Who is Eddie Brock?
Few characters have clawed their way from supporting role to full-blown icon quite like Eddie Brock, who first emerged in 1988 during comics' Copper Age and never looked back. With 536 catalog appearances spanning nearly four decades — nine of them recognized as key collector issues — his staying power speaks for itself. He's a fixture of Marvel's darker corners, most at home in the pages of Venom, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Marvel Comics Presents, where he shares the stage with heavyweights like Spider-Man, Carnage, Wolverine, and Captain America. If you're building a serious Marvel collection and Eddie Brock isn't in it, you're missing one of the most consequential characters the Copper Age ever produced.
★ First appearance
The Amazing Spider-Man #300
Trivia
- Eddie Brock's first solo miniseries, Venom: Lethal Protector, deliberately moved the character out of Spider-Man's orbit and into San Francisco, which helped reframe Venom from a pure villain into an anti-hero.en.wikipedia.org
- In Marvel continuity, Brock later became Anti-Venom, whose suit is uniquely corrosive to the Venom symbiote and can actually damage or dissolve it, making him one of the few characters built specifically to counter Venom.en.wikipedia.org
- Marvel and the character's comics history show that Eddie Brock was central to Venom becoming a multi-creator, multi-era assembled character, with major elements of the concept evolving across different Spider-Man stories rather than arriving as a single fixed origin.en.wikipedia.org
- Donny Cates has written more of Eddie Brock's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 36 issues.
Covers through the years — 1988–2024
★ 1988 
★ 1992 ![Backlash / Spider-Man TPB #[nn]](https://comicbooks-covers-449901518064-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/covers/isbndb/1887279474.jpg)
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2024 Appearances (most recent 150 of 536)
Comics Scene (1987)
Quasar (1989)
The Avengers Annual (1967)
What If...? (1989)
Avengers: Death Trap, The Vault (1991)
Wizard: The Comics Magazine (1991)
Venom: Deathtrap: The Vault (1993)
Spider-Man: Venom Returns (1993)
Marvel Age (1983)
Spawn (1992)
The Marvel Masterpieces Collection (1993)
Marvel Super-Heroes (1990)
Spider-Man 2099 (1992)
The Amazing Spider-Man [Pro-Action] (1994)
The Amazing Spider-Man Ashcan Edition (1994)
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (1993)
Ectokid (1993)
Hyperkind (1993)
Incredible Hulk vs. Venom (1994)
Beavis & Butt-Head (1994)
Beavis and Butt-Head's Greatest Hits (1994)
Maximum Carnage (1994)
The Very Best of Spider-Man (1994)
Silver Sable and the Wild Pack (1992)
Web of Spider-Man (1985)
Spider-Man: The Clone Journal (1995)
Rune / Silver Surfer (1995)
Spider-Man Magazine (1994)
Marvels: Portraits (1995)
Venom Super Special (1995)
Web of Spider-Man Super Special (1995)
Marvel Swimsuit Special (1992)
Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man (1995)
Spider-Man Venom Strikes: Marvel Power Game (1996)
Spider-Man Unmasked (1996)
Rise of Apocalypse (1996)
Spider-Man / Badrock (1997)
X-Men Unlimited (1993)
Code of Honor (1997)
Devil Dinosaur Spring Fling (1997)
Backlash / Spider-Man TPB (1997)
Venom: Seed of Darkness (1997)
Spider-Man: Venom Agenda (1998)
Wizard Presents The Legacy of Spider-Man Special Edition (1998)
Toy Fair Face-Off! [Amazing Spider-Man Toy Fair Special] (1999)