Absolute Carnage #1 (2019) First Print, Cover A
Absolute Carnage #1 is the premiere issue of the Absolute Carnage series from Marvel, released August 1, 2019. Written by Donny Cates with artwork by Ryan Stegman. Notable appearances include Carnage, Spider-Man, Venom. This page represents the regular first-print Cover A edition. Separate pages are available for the 40 incentive, retailer-exclusive and later-printing variant covers.
CHAPTER ONE: THE BLEEDING KING / CHAPTER TWO: THE GOD SON / CHAPTER THREE: THE LONG RED DARK After turning Venom’s world upside down a year ago, Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman are about to put the Sinister Symbiote through hell again, only this time CARNAGE has come calling, and everyone who’s ever worn a symbiote is dead in his sights! He’s skirted the periphery of the Marvel Universe for months, but Cletus Kasady at last stands poised to make his grand return to New York in a blistering 60-PAGE story…and he wants to paint the town red!
Key Facts
- Five-part limited series with multiple tie-ins
- Carnage sets out to reclaim every codex from all former and current symbiote hosts to release Knull, the Symbiote God, from confinement in the "planet" Klyntar
- 20 randomly distributed issues of Absolute Carnage #1 have an original sketch by Carnage co-creator Mark Bagley that can be found on the inside, back cover of the standard (A) cover
- Tap cover and swipe to view the sketches that have been found
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