Venom: First Host

In 2018, Marvel Comics reunited writer Mike Costa and artist Mark Bagley for a single-issue story that redefined the origins of the Venom symbiote. Venom: First Host reveals the truth about the alien's original human partner before Eddie Brock, a secret that forces the current Venom host to confront a dangerous figure from the symbiote's past. This one-shot is a key chapter in the modern Venom saga, expanding the mythology of the character while delivering the kinetic, classic Bagley artwork that helped define the symbiote's look in the 1990s.