Not being a Spider Man guy - I can't give you the first real "Venom" appearance, but I do have the Secret Wars series, including #8 (or it could be 9 - without digging them up, I can't remember), the first appearance of the black costume which turned out to be an alien symbiote, and later Venom.

[ 03-05-2006, 07:15 AM: Message edited by: Marathon ]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_3

This has the most information I've found yet!

On that link, find the part where Sony is talking about possible villians and visit the sony website. There, you'll find A LOT of information on the bios of each baddie.

[ 03-04-2006, 11:49 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

I've heard rumors to the effect that the deal was extended out to 6 movies (6 total, not 6 more) which would seriously rock. I'd like to see them bring in some of his super allies, like the Black Cat.

I'd fully support a trilogy now, and another 20 years down the road.

For some reason I just cant imagine Bruce Campbell as Quentin Beck.

<font color = lightgreen>It was number 8, and that is the first appearance of Venom...even though it wasn't fully sentient yet. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] </font>

I actually did dig some of those old issues up after thinking about them again. I loved that series as a child, but some of the writing is terrible...particularly for the X-Men.

Wolverine (talking about Captain America): What? I won't follow him! He doesn't even have any powers!

<font color = lightgreen>Of course the writing was bad--they were still mostly writing for children/teenagers.</font>

Just because something is written for teenagers it doesn't mean it should be of poor craft.

<font color = lightgreen>I know that. I suppose what I mean is "they didn't take extra care to make the writing/plot of higher quality because of their target audience". [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] </font>