Venom #25

Venom #25 belongs to the Venom series launched by Rick Remender in 2011 and later taken over by Cullen Bunn. The story in this issue is titled "Monsters of Evil Part 3," released by Marvel on September 19, 2012, with about 20 pages of main story. At this point the Venom symbiote's host is Flash Thompson, both a Secret Avenger and a former soldier bound to the symbiote. In this issue, the demon lord Daimon Hellstrom drives the "Monsters of Evil" to hunt Venom and add the symbiote to his collection. In the fight, Venom realizes he has been possessed by a demon but is not subdued by the power; instead he turns it around and commands the monsters to turn coat, ordering them to disperse and harm no one. Afterward, Venom confronts Hellstrom in the super-prison about how he can control demons, learning that a catastrophe called "the Fall" is coming, when a Hell-Lord will become "the true devil," and that Mephisto has already marked Venom and his "Circle of Four" companions as candidates to inherit his domain. Carrying these tangled threads, he turns to reporter Katy Kiernan as a source and leaves Betty a voice message, but a Secret Avengers mission call interrupts him. The issue is drawn by Tony Silas, inked by Nelson DeCastro, Rick Ketcham, and Walden Wong, colored by Chris Sotomayor and Andres Mossa, with covers by Patch Zircher and Marte Gracia.