Carnage: It's a Wonderful Life #1 (1996) for Sale - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Carnage: It's a Wonderful Life (Marvel, 1996 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: October 1996
Key date: 1996-10-00
On-sale date: 1996-08-14
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $1.95; 2.75 CAD
Pages: 36
Barcode: 75960604351400111
Rating: For mature readers

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Why this issue matters

Origin story on record for: Carnage, Cletus Kasady.

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: Kyle Hotz; inks: Kyle Hotz	Carnage, Cletus Kasady
1	It's a Wonderful Life!	comic story	32	script: David Quinn; pencils: Kyle Hotz; inks: Kyle Hotz; colors: Greg Wright; letters: Jonathan Babcock	Carnage Origin, John Jameson, Dr. Ashley Kafka, Cletus Kasady Origin, Peter Parker, Spider-Man

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Carnage Classic #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-90059-5	2016	On eBay ›
Web of Carnage ISBN 978-1-302-95109-2	2023	On eBay ›

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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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