The King in Black returns in Venom #250
By Liam McGuire
July 14th, 2025
Knull is back, and it will be up to Venom to ensure the King in Black doesn’t turn the Marvel Universe into his own pit of darkness!
In Venom #250 by Al Ewing and Terry Dodson, Mary Jane Watson — the All-New Venom — continues to take Venom down a heroic path. However, the previously killed Knull will return to Earth, posing the most significant threat MJ has ever faced by far during her time as the symbiote.
The oversized Venom #250 features main cover art by Ryan Stegman and Frank Martin, with variants coming from Ario Anindito, Carlos Gomez, Nick Bradshaw, and Jee Hyung Lee, with Jerome Opena (1:25) and Lee (1:100) drawing the incentive variants for the issue. Check out the main cover art and text solicit below.
THE RETURN OF KNULL! Mary Jane Watson is finally in the swing of things as the new Venom host, using their powers in all-new ways to be the hero the symbiote never knew it could be! But as she cleans up the streets of New York, she remains blissfully unaware of the strands of darkness leading off into the darkness of the void. Knull, the creator of all symbiotes, was killed by Eddie Brock. Nothing could bring him back... but Knull rules over nothing. Knull has returned, and word is racing across the stars to the one who took him down before to prepare to do it again. Will Venom be ready?
Ben Grimm takes on the entire planet in this special Marvel Anniversary issue — across 50 pages of incredible nonstop action so bold, so colossal, that the only pages that aren't splash pages are double-page spreads! It's Marvel as you've always wanted to see it, at our biggest — our baddest — our most clobberingest! It's the wildest story we've ever published! It's Marvel All-on-One!
Venom #250 arrives at CaptCan Comics on October 1st. Pre-order the issue now to ensure you don’t miss out.