Paint the town red…blood red! Carnage, the psychotic offspring of Venom, has returned - and he plans to slaughter everyone who's ever worn a symbiote! Cletus Kasady has skirted the periphery of the Marvel Universe for months, but now he stands poised to make his grand return to New York - and he's more powerful than ever! To make matters worse, a new player is on the board, and it's not who you'd expect! Spider-Man and Venom must face down Carnage's madness, but things aren't looking good. Barely able to escape with their lives, the uneasy allies have no choice but to drag a slew of other heroes into Carnage's crosshairs. And the hard truth is that not everybody will make it out of this conflict in one piece…if they make it out at all! Collecting ABSOLUTE CARNAGE #1-5. Rated T+

(W) Tini Howard (A) Marcus To, Wilton Santos (CA) Mahmud A. Asrar Darkness reigns in the Marvel Universe! After a campaign of terror across the galaxy, Knull - ancient and malevolent god of symbiotes - reaches Earth with an endless army of symbiote dragons at his command! The King in Black is a force unlike any ever faced by Venom and the rest of the planet's heroes - but now Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the Sub-Mariner and more must battle an endless wave of darkness! Outgunned and badly outnumbered, can anyone possibly survive Knull's symbiotic onslaught? Or will they all be forced to bow to the King in Black? Featuring every epic chapter in one monstrous, black-hearted volume! Collecting KING IN BLACK #1-5; KING IN BLACK: IMMORTAL HULK, IRON MAN/DOCTOR DOOM, BLACK KNIGHT, MARAUDERS, BLACK PANTHER, CAPTAIN AMERICA, WICCAN AND HULKLING, SPIDER-MAN, SCREAM and GHOST RIDER; KING IN BLACK: GWENOM VS. CARNAGE #1-3; KING IN BLACK: NAMOR #1-5; KING IN BLACK: PLANET OF THE SYMBIOTES #1-3; KING IN BLACK: RETURN OF THE VALKYRIES #1-4; KING IN BLACK: THUNDERBOLTS

(W) Tini Howard (A) Marcus To, Wilton Santos (CA) Mahmud A. Asrar Darkness reigns in the Marvel Universe! After a campaign of terror across the galaxy, Knull - ancient and malevolent god of symbiotes - reaches Earth with an endless army of symbiote dragons at his command! The King in Black is a force unlike any ever faced by Venom and the rest of the planet's heroes - but now Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the Sub-Mariner and more must battle an endless wave of darkness! Outgunned and badly outnumbered, can anyone possibly survive Knull's symbiotic onslaught? Or will they all be forced to bow to the King in Black? Featuring every epic chapter in one monstrous, black-hearted volume! Collecting KING IN BLACK #1-5; KING IN BLACK: IMMORTAL HULK, IRON MAN/DOCTOR DOOM, BLACK KNIGHT, MARAUDERS, BLACK PANTHER, CAPTAIN AMERICA, WICCAN AND HULKLING, SPIDER-MAN, SCREAM and GHOST RIDER; KING IN BLACK: GWENOM VS. CARNAGE #1-3; KING IN BLACK: NAMOR #1-5; KING IN BLACK: PLANET OF THE SYMBIOTES #1-3; KING IN BLACK: RETURN OF THE VALKYRIES #1-4; KING IN BLACK: THUNDERBOLTS

(W) Donny Cates (A/CA) Ryan Stegman Darkness reigns! After a campaign of terror across the galaxy, Knull reaches Earth - and he hasn't come alone! With an army of hundreds of thousands of symbiote dragons at his command, the King in Black is a force unlike any Earth's heroes have ever faced. Eddie Brock, A.K.A. Venom, has seen firsthand the chaos that even one of Knull's monsters can wreak. Can anyone possibly survive this onslaught? Outgunned and outmanned, Earth's heroes are reeling. It will take everything they've got to face the God of the Abyss as he ensnares the planet in everlasting darkness! Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman present the definitive chapter in their three-year-long VENOM saga that changed everything you thought you knew about symbiotes - and they're raising the stakes for the entire Marvel Universe! Hail to the king! Collecting KING IN BLACK #1-5. 144 PGS./Rated T+

(W) Donny Cates (A) Ryan Stegman & Various (CA) Ryan Stegman Oliver Harrison was a mythical hero who slayed the greatest threat to his realm before even hitting puberty. But that was then. As an adult, Oliver leads an average cookie-cutter suburban life-aside from the fact that he's mentally unstable, massively paranoid, smokes like a chimney, and gets blackout drunk every night to hide from his horrific nightmares. Will the arrival of a superhero team called the Prestige prove the madness isn't all in Oliver's head? And what about all the epic fantasy crap from his childhood? Join us for a brutal as hell tale of magical worlds, gifted youth, evil sorcerers, superheroes, war, blood, guts, and death that punches you right in the face! From DONNY CATES (CROSSOVER, GOD COUNTRY, King In Black, Venom), RYAN STEGMAN (Venom, King In Black), JP MAYER (Absolute Carnage, Fantastic Four), SONIA OBACK (Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, Han Solo), and JOHN J. HILL (CROSSOVER, Harley Quinn), the all-star creative team that brought you Venom, comes an all-new take on the classic hero's quest!

(W) Donny Cates (A) Ryan Stegman, Iban Coello (CA) Ryan Stegman Venom no more?! Just when you thought the blockbuster story of Venom couldn't get any more intense, Donny Cates turns the world of Eddie Brock on its head - again! But this time it won't be dragons and god-hosts and breakneck action. No, no. This time Eddie's going through an emotional meat grinder the likes of which has never been seen in the Marvel Universe! As Eddie finds himself truly alone for the first time in a long time, the silence is deafening. Plus: San Francisco offers anything but a happy homecoming thanks to Eddie's estranged father - and the little brother he never knew he had. Will Eddie's return to his old stomping grounds reveal secrets better kept buried? Collecting VENOM (2018) #7-12. Rated T+

(W) Donny Cates (A/CA) Ryan Stegman Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman's epic reinvention of Venom! An ancient and primordial evil surfaces beneath New York, awakening something deep inside Eddie Brock's symbiote - and nothing will ever be the same for Venom! Cletus Kasady wreaks Absolute Carnage against the former hosts of symbiotes, Eddie faces a battle for survival on the Island of Bones and an attack by the armored Virus sends Venom into a whole different world of terror! But when Knull, god of symbiotes, awakens and heads for Earth, can anyone survive the darkness of the King in Black? Collecting VENOM (2018) #1-35; VENOM ANNUAL (2018) #1; WEB OF VENOM: VE'NAM, CARNAGE BORN and WRAITH; ABSOLUTE CARNAGE #1-5; KING IN BLACK #1-5; and material from FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2019 (SPIDER-MAN/VENOM); FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2020 (SPIDER-MAN/VENOM), INCOMING #1 and CARNAGE: BLACK, WHITE & BLOOD #2. Parental Advisory