On the unlikely day when an embittered, washed-up journalist met a spurned symbiotic organism from an alien planet, one of Spider-Man's greatest enemies was born...a force of evil and vengeance like no other in the Marvel Universe - VENOM! But is it as simple as that?

On the unlikely day when an embittered, washed-up journalist met a spurned symbiotic organism from an alien planet, one of Spider-Man's greatest enemies was born... a force of evil and vengeance like no other in the Marvel Universe - VENOM But is it as simple as that? Discover the true, twisted roots that gave rise to a lifetime of malevolence for Eddie Brock and the symbiote Writer Zeb Wells (Amazing Spider-Man) and artist Angel Medina (Sensational Spider-Man) shed a little light on one of Marvel's darkest monsters Collects Venom: Dark Origin #1-5.