#4128: Venom

VENOM SPIDER-MAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (TOY BIZ) “Eddie Brock, former newspaper reporter, has joined with an evil, alien symbiote, giving him spider-like powers greater than those of Spider-Man himself! Driven by a twisted sense of justice, Brock has become Venom, humanity’s Lethal Protector…and he’s decided that humanity needs protection from Spider-Man!” For a character only introduced in 1988, by 1994, Venom had a surprising amount of action figure coverage. Toy Biz had added him to their run right at the start, and really just kept adding him. By the time they launched their dedicated Spider-Man: The Animated Series line, they’d already done four versions of him under the Marvel Super Heroes banner, but that didn’t stop them from putting him in the first Spider-Man line-up too. I mean, really, can you blame them? He was pretty popular, and also on the cartoon, so it’s hard to avoid such a thing. Let’s look at that fifth Venom today! THE FIGURE ITSELF Venom was released in Series 1…