Venom War: Lethal Protectors #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeVenom War: Lethal Protectors #1 marks the first appearances of two new Marvel Earth-616 characters — Flicker (Lina Abbas) and a new host for the Agony symbiote, Navvab Tadjvar — while simultaneously debuting new symbiote-bonded identities for established Wild Pack members Puma (as Riot), Tarantula/Jacinda Rodriguez (as Lasher), Crippler (as Phage), and Lightbright (as Scream). The issue repositions Silver Sable as the unlikely field commander of a symbiote-augmented mercenary unit during the Venom War crossover event, a creative choice that reframes the character in a radically different context from her decades-long history as a purely human tactician. By anchoring the event's tie-in around Sable and the Life Foundation symbiotes — a quintet that had languished without consistent spotlight since the early 1990s — the issue gives long-dormant corners of Marvel's symbiote mythology a meaningful role in a line-wide story. It also contains the in-story death of Navvab Tadjvar in her first appearance, making this issue the sole source for that character's entire comics existence.
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The series was written by Sabir Pirzada with art by Luca Maresca, colors by Arif Prianto, and lettering by Joe Sabino, edited by Tom Groneman under consulting editor Jordan D. White. It was announced publicly in June 2024 as part of the broader Venom War editorial initiative spearheaded by White, and launched on September 18, 2024 as a three-issue limited series running through November 2024. Creees Lee provided the primary cover for issue #1, with a Miguel Mercado variant also available at launch. The series was subsequently collected alongside the main Venom War titles in both a trade paperback and a large-format Venom War Omnibus hardcover.
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- Released September 18, 2024 (cover-dated November 2024) as issue #1 of a three-issue limited series; written by Sabir Pirzada, penciled and inked by Luca Maresca, colored by Arif Prianto, lettered by Joe Sabino.
- First appearance of Lina Abbas, the new host of the Flicker symbiote, on Earth-616.
- First appearance of Navvab Tadjvar, who bonds with and then loses the Agony symbiote, and dies within the same issue — her only comics appearance.
- Debuts new symbiote pairings for established Wild Pack characters: Puma (Thomas Fireheart) bonds with Riot, Tarantula (Jacinda Rodriguez) bonds with Lasher, Crippler (Carl Striklan) bonds with Phage, and Lightbright (Obax Majid) bonds with Scream.
- Silver Sable (Silvija Sablinova) is the issue's lead character; her bonding with the Agony symbiote — which completes after Navvab Tadjvar's death — is set up here and realized in issue #2, giving rise to her 'Silver Symbiote' identity.
- The antagonist driving the threat is Meridius, a possible future incarnation of Eddie Brock, whose zombiote plague provides the event backdrop; Liz Allan (as Misery) is the Alchemax figure who commissions Sable's team.
- The five Life Foundation symbiotes deployed — Scream, Riot, Agony, Lasher, and Phage — are paired with Wild Pack operatives, reviving a group of symbiote characters who originated in the early 1990s Venom: Lethal Protector era.
- The three-issue run was collected in both a Venom War: Spider-Man/Lethal Protectors trade paperback and the Venom War Omnibus hardcover, which gathers the full 2024 event.
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Reprinted in Venom War: Spider-Man / Lethal Protectors #[nn] (2025)
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