Black Widow: Venomous #1 for Sale - First Appearance of Widow - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Black Widow: Venomous (Marvel, 2024 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: September 2024
Key date: 2024-09-00
On-sale date: 2024-07-31
Indicia publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
Price: $4.99
Pages: 44
Barcode: 75960620936100111
Rating: Rated T+

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Widow - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Sliver - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Leirix; inks: Leirix; colors: Leirix	Widow First, Natasha Romanoff
2	Venomous	comic story	30	script: Erica Schultz; pencils: Luciano Vecchio; inks: Luciano Vecchio; colors: David Curiel, Rachelle Rosenberg; letters: VC's Ariana Maher	Bucky Barnes, Clint Barton, Widow First, Phil Coulson, Jessica Drew, Nick Fury Jr., Hawkeye, Marcus Johnson, Revolution, Natasha Romanoff, Sliver First, Spider-Woman
3	-	credits, title page	1	pencils: Luciano Vecchio; inks: Luciano Vecchio; letters: VC's Ariana Maher
7	In Pursuit of Doom...	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Joshua Cassara; inks: Joshua Cassara
8	The Most Unexpected Mash-Up of Our Time	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Riccardo Secchi; inks: Riccardo Secchi	Donald Duck
9	The Infinity Watch Annual Crossover Concludes!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: various; inks: various; colors: various; letters: typeset	Moon Knight; Spider-Boy; Thanos; Thor; Iron Man; Vision; Black Panther; Ms. Marvel
10	In Memoriam: Ray Chan - Production Designer	text article	1	pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); letters: typeset
11	There Can Only Be One!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
12	Next	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Luciano Vecchio; inks: Luciano Vecchio

Plus 6 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Variant Edition - InHyuk Lee	barcode 75960620936100141
Luciano Vecchio 'Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Variant' Cover	barcode 75960620936100131
Derrick Chew Cover	barcode 75960620936100121
Derrick Chew Virgin Art Cover	barcode 75960620936100116

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Blood Hunt: Red Band #5	2024	On eBay ›
Crypt of Shadows #1	2024	On eBay ›
Venom War: Zombiotes / Venomous #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-96171-8	2025	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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