Kid Venom #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeKid Venom #4 serves as the finale of Taigami's landmark four-issue solo series — the first Marvel ongoing built entirely around a character that originated from a Japanese manga contest entry, planting manga-influenced storytelling and Heian-era Japanese folklore squarely inside mainstream Marvel symbiote mythology. The issue brings Kintaro's multiversal displacement story to a head by crossing the 10th-century samurai-symbiote host into contact with Spider-Girl (May 'Mayday' Parker) and her brother Benjy (Ben Parker II) from Earth-982, a collision of two distinct corners of Marvel's alternate-universe legacy that no prior comic had attempted. As the capstone chapter of a series that demonstrated a non-Western, manga-influenced creator could helm a solo Marvel symbiote title from concept to conclusion, it marks a genuine expansion of the creative pipeline Marvel established through its Shonen Magazine collaboration.
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Kid Venom's existence traces back to a 2018 joint manga contest run by Shonen Magazine and Marvel, in which Taigami submitted a one-shot built around the symbiote theme; that submission became the direct creative seed for the character. Taigami debuted Kintaro and his symbiote Clinter in backup stories throughout the five-issue Death of the Venomverse event (2023), written and drawn entirely by Taigami alongside the main Cullen Bunn/Gerardo Sandoval story. Those four backup chapters were collected in Kid Venom: Origins #1 (January 2024), which also included behind-the-scenes material from Taigami's original contest entry, before the four-issue solo series launched in April 2024 with Taigami handling all writing, penciling, and inking duties — an unusually unified creative vision for a Marvel ongoing.
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- Issue #4 is the concluding chapter of the Kid Venom (2024) four-issue limited series, released January 22, 2025, with a cover date of March 2025.
- The entire series — writing, penciling, and inking — was produced solely by Taigami, with Mattia Iacono as colorist, Joe Sabino as letterer, and Danny Khazem as editor.
- The story arc for this issue, titled 'Spider's Sting,' centers on Kid Venom (Kintaro) stranded in the Marvel Multiverse and coming face-to-face with a spider-powered hero from another universe.
- Spider-Girl (May 'Mayday' Parker, Earth-982) and her brother Ben Parker II (Benjy Parker, Earth-982) appear in this issue, bringing the MC2-universe Parker siblings into direct interaction with Kintaro and his symbiote Clinter.
- May Parker (their mother, Mary Jane Watson-Parker of Earth-982) is also cataloged as appearing in this issue, extending the MC2 family's presence into the story.
- Kintaro/Kid Venom is a 10th-century Heian-era Japanese samurai who bonds with the symbiote Clinter — a unique entity that feeds on other symbiotes and evolves by absorbing the memories of their hosts.
- The Kid Venom character originated from Taigami's entry in a 2018 Shonen Magazine/Marvel manga contest before being formally introduced into Marvel continuity in Death of the Venomverse #2 (2023).
- A Philip Tan Homage variant cover was produced for this issue alongside Taigami's standard cover, colored by Richard Isanove.
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Reprinted in Kid Venom: Origins #[nn] (2025)
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