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Venom: Separation Anxiety 1 COVER by Ron Randall, 1994 --- Eddie vs FIVE symbiotes

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Venom: Separation Anxiety 1 comic book
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Location: VENOM (Bagley, Bradshaw, Lim, Lyle, Keown, Randall, Sandoval, Saviuk, Sharp, Stegman, St. Pierre, Suayan, Tan, etc)
Title: Venom: Separation Anxiety 1 COVER by Ron Randall, 1994 --- Eddie vs FIVE symbiotes*
Artist:  Ron Randall (Penciller) ,  Sam de la Rosa (Inker)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Cover
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Views: 3280
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Comments: 7
Added to Site: 5/21/2014

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Why do I love this cover?

What's better than one symbiote? FIVE symbiotes!

Surrounding Eddie on this cover, from left to right: Riot, Lasher, Scream, Agony and Phage.

Prelude to this story:
In an attempt to create "super-cops" to police their new Utopia, the Life Foundation probed the Venom symbiote and extracted the last five of its "seeds" - the materials used to create spawn. These were cultured and bonded to five of the Life Foundation's best security personnel to form the Guardians: Donna Diego (Scream), Carl Mach (Phage), Leslie Gesneria (Agony), Trevor Cole (Riot), and Ramon Hernandez (Lasher).

*Side note: All five symbiotes first appeared in Venom: Lethal Protector #4.
Scream is featured on this cover, which I own! Please take a look at it in my gallery when you get the chance.

Anyway, in "Separation Anxiety," Eddie and the Venom symbiote have been separated by a vast distance (hence the title). While Venom tries to get back to his host (awwww), someone stabs and murders Agony. Everyone believes Eddie did it, but it turns out that Scream was the culprit.

Anyway, I love this cover because it features poor Eddie being tormented by these five symbiotes.

And when the comic came out, it was one of those cool embossed covers with the raised design.

This cover art actually came with a separate colored overlay that shows where and how the design was to be embossed/raised.
I included a photo of that color guide as an additional image.






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Jason Versaggi Member Since 2005
Posted On 5/21/2014

Very cool! I remember when Venom was THE biggest thing in comics.
Paul P Spiderversity Member Since 2011
Posted On 5/21/2014

Jason Versaggi wrote:
" Very cool! I remember when Venom was THE biggest thing in comics.  "
Isn't he still? :-)
Fred's CAF Gallery Member Since 2003
Posted On 5/22/2014

Bring on the INSANITY!!! This Venom cover is CRAZY cool!!!
THE COMICART2003 Member Since 2005
Posted On 5/22/2014

Great! Very scary cover!
S Riz Member Since 2014
Posted On 5/19/2019

What a fantastic cover.  Love the 90s, congrats!

D J Member Since 2014
Posted On 12/12/2021

So dope! I remember buying this as a kid, just because it was a cool looking cover. Over 2 decades later and it's still a cool cover!

Daniel Ellis Member Since 2021
Posted On 8/8/2022

Loved this cover as a kid
Still love this cover now

Glad you got your hands on such an awsome cover

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