Jerome Delacroix

Jerome Delacroix stepped onto the Marvel stage in 2003's Venom #1, a Modern Age debut courtesy of writer Daniel Way and artist Francisco Herrera — a creative team who launched one of Marvel's more intense series of that era. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Jerome is a compact presence in the Venom universe, sharing those dark, high-stakes pages with the likes of Colonel Michael Malone, Trish Robertson, and the lethal symbiote himself. A character like this rewards the dedicated reader who wants to understand every corner of a landmark debut issue — and Venom #1 is exactly the kind of key Modern Age comic worth tracking down.