Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4548390-20160905163752/@comment-16461120-20161215225521

I assumed they didn't count the Dark Reign series because he's technically not using the codename Venom there, and that's how I got the count to work by May 2017, but Nick Lowe says an intern did the counting and brought the idea to he and Devin Lewis, so who knows what criteria they used.