King in Black Reading Order: King in Black Reading Order: Collected Editions The OmnibusĬollects King In Black #1-5 King In Black: Immortal Hulk, Iron Man/Doctor Doom, Black Knight, Marauders, Black Panther, Captain America, Wiccan And Hulkling, Spider-Man, Scream, and Ghost Rider King In Black: Gwenom Vs.

This is and optional miniseries set just after the first “Secret Wars.”Īnother optional miniseries set in the past. For a more detailed look at this event, go to the Absolute Carnage Reading Order.Ĭollects Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black #1-5. Deadpool #1-3, Absolute Carnage: Captain Marvel #1, Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk #1, Absolute Carnage: Symbiote Spider-Man #1, Absolute Carnage: Symbiote Of Vengeance #1, Absolute Carnage: Lethal Protectors #1-3, Absolute Carnage: Avengers #1, Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales #1-3, Absolute Carnage: Weapon Plus #1, Absolute Carnage: Scream #1-3, Absolute Carnage: Separation Anxiety #1, Amazing Spider-Man #29-31, Venom #16-20, And Absolute Carnage Stinger Pages.

It collects what is essential.Ĭollects Absolute Carnage #1-5, Absolute Carnage Vs. Here is a guide of what you’ll want to read to be up to date:Ĭollects Venom (2018) #3-4, Venom : Carnage Born, and Venom (2018) #25.

Even if Knull played a big part in Donny Cates’ run on Venom ( here is the reading order), he also appeared in other series. What to read before King in Black?Īs I said, the story began some time ago. *Knull was really introduced in Thor: God of Thunder #6, but he was not named and he was just an idea that Cates took and developed. Here is the official synopsis: Darkness reigns across the Marvel Universe! After a campaign of terror across the galaxy, Knull - ancient and malevolent god of symbiotes - reaches Earth, with an endless army of symbiote dragons at his command! The King in Black is a force unlike any ever faced by Venom and the rest of Earth’s heroes - but now Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the Sub-Mariner and many, many more must battle an endless wave of darkness! Outgunned and badly outnumbered, can anyone possibly survive Knull’s symbiotic onslaught? Or will they all be forced to bow to the King? But will he survive an encounter with the God of the Abyss himself? He has already seen firsthand the chaos that even one of Knull’s symbiotic monsters can wreak. Of course, Earth’s heroes will fight back.Įddie Brock, AKA Venom, is obviously front and center. Introduced* as a big threat to the Marvel Universe by Donny Cates when he started writing Venom’s new continuing series ( go to the Reading Order), Knull, god of the symbiotes, is finally coming to conquer Earth-with an army of thousands of symbiote dragons at his beck and call.

King in Black by Donny Cates