The Cabal has a price on my head, and Pike wasn't man enough to off me alone, so... he had you do the work for him. He doesn't know who or what a Carnage is... but he knows a sucker when he sees one.
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Department PSI
- Taboo (Amanda Reed) (Main story and recap)
- Dr. Gilbert Branum (First appearance)
- Antonio Giovanni (First appearance)
- Agent Hooper
- Venom (Eddie Brock) (Main story and recap) (Apparent death)
Antagonists:
- The Cabal
- Venom (Pike) (Briefly merges with Venom Symbiote) (Apparent death)
- Hawkins
- Eddison (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Jesus Christ (First appearance; image)
- Carnage (Cletus Kasady) (Mentioned)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Only in recap)
- Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
- Reed Richards (Mentioned)
- Spock (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- NYPD (Mentioned)
- George Orwell (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Big Brother (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Zappa Records (Name only) (Topical Reference)
- Sir Lancelot (Topical Reference)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Quasimodo (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
'Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Symbiotes (Main story and recap)
- Vampires (Main story and recap)
- Demigods (First appearance; image)
- Human-Kherubim Hybrids
- Cats (Mentioned)
- Spiders
Locations:
- Earth-7642 (Main story and recap)
- Earth
- Battleworld (Only in recap)
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
- Venom Symbiote (Main story and recap) (Apparent death) (As The Black Suit in recap only)
- Taboo Symbiote (Main story and recap)
- Carnage Symbiote (Mentioned)
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
Events:
- Secret Wars (Only in recap)
Synopsis for 1st story
Venom has kidnapped Taboo, but realizing that her symbiote is of no relation to him or Carnage, understands that Pike has tricked him into doing his job for him. Meanwhile, Spidey and Backlash try to find a way to defeat Venom and Pike and save Taboo. Using a scrap of Venom's symbiote, they're able to track them down.
Notes
Published by Image Comics.