Cletus Kasady

Cletus Kasady is the human host of the Carnage symbiote, a criminally insane serial killer whose bond with the alien Venom offspring makes him one of Marvel's most dangerous and unpredictable villains, appearing in German-language titles published by Panini Deutschland.

Few names in Marvel's rogues' gallery carry quite the chill of Cletus Kasady, a figure who made his catalog debut in X-Men #4 (1997) under the creative hands of Fabian Nicieza, Andy Kubert, Ron Garney, and Reinhard Schweizer. Published by Panini Deutschland, this version of the character belongs to the Modern Age and has persisted across an impressive near-three-decade span through 2026, appearing in titles like Spider-Man and Der sensationelle Spider-Man. His appearances put him in vivid company — sharing pages with Peter Parker, Ben Reilly, Mary Jane Watson-Parker, and the symbiote terror known as Carnage — making for some genuinely charged reading. With a key issue among his catalog entries and a run that stretches well into the 2020s, Cletus Kasady is a name any serious collector of Panini's Marvel output will want on their radar.