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Timely Comics: Venom: Space Knight Vol 1 1

Quote1  Wait. Do you know what an Agent of the Cosmos is? 'cause I've been wondering --  Quote2
—Venom (Flash Thompson)

Appearing in 1st story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Venom: Space Knight #1

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • 803
    (First appearance)
  • Cora
    (First appearance)
    (Unnamed)

Antagonists:

  • Gholar
    (First appearance)
  • Gholar's thugs
  • Kio
    (First appearance)
    (Apparent death)
  • Kio's pirates

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed aliens
    • Blait'r
      (Mentioned)
  • Cora's children
    (First appearance)
  • Symbiotes
    (Mentioned)
  • Were-Fish
    (First appearance)
  • Cora's wife
    (First appearance)

Locations:

Items:

Vehicles:

  • Venom's spaceship (Only appearance; destruction)
  • Kio's spaceship
    (First appearance)
  • Agents of the Cosmos' spaceship
    (First appearance)
    (Cameo)

Synopsis for 1st story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Venom: Space Knight #1
Running down a corridor, Venom fires over his shoulder with a laser pistol, while thinking that his situation could have gone better but that broken plays were always his favorite and that all he has to do is run. Thinking to himself that he's like a kid on a playground, Venom leaps out a window as an alien with a set of tentacles for an arm grabs him, and he instinctually retaliates by slicing its tentacle off with an arm-blade. The alien, an arms dealer named Gholar, plummets out the window after him, but Venom maneuvers so that he lands on top of him. Gholar's thugs arrive and open fire, so Venom web-swings away while dodging lasers, thinking to himself that he is an Agent of the Cosmos despite having no idea what that entails, and that he got a message from a ringing voice in his head to travel to that planet to track down a chemical weapon. Venom had found out that Gholar had sold the weapon, YT-19, to a smuggler whose name is on the drive he "borrowed," but his ship is blown up before he can use it to learn the buyer's identity.

Leaping through the window of a nearby building, Venom asks an owl-like alien woman if he can borrow her computer, discovering the buyer was a space pirate named Kio, whose ship is due to depart in five minutes. Dodging Gholar's thugs, Venom latches onto the side of Kio's ship as it takes off into space, using the Venom symbiote's tendrils to open the airlock from the outside. Once inside, Venom outlines a plan: find the YT-19, lots of punching, and then steal Kio's ship to replace the one that was blown up. Spotting a bulky robotic silhouette, Venom notes he might have to amend his to-do list so that punching is at the top, and tells the robot to slowly turn around. Forming an arm-blade, Venom asks if he can help the robot and is surprised when it asks to be terminated. The robot explains that it's been in Kio's service for centuries and has become suicidal, but its programming does not permit it to self-destruct. Seeing the robot is not a threat, Venom asks for its name, and the robot introduces itself as 803. Venom asks 803 to show him where the YT-19 is being held, and 803 asks to be destroyed in return, though Venom refuses to confirm that he'll go through with it.

803 opens a storage compartment in the cargo bay and reveals a female alien and her four children, telling Venom that the YT-19 is derived from their blood. Flash thinks to himself that while the Venom symbiote may have been purged of its rage, he wasn't. Inwardly seething with fury, Flash can feel the symbiote feeding off his anger and forces himself to calm down for fear of corrupting it, approaching the aliens. The mother alien tells Venom to stay back, but he assures them he's an Agent of the Cosmos and there to help them escape. Noting the mother alien's relief, he starts to ask if she knows what an Agent of the Cosmos is, but she interrupts to warn him that 803 is working for the pirates. Venom replies that 803 is harmless and only wants to be destroyed. The robot verifies Venom's statement and asks the aliens to terminate him before being cut off by Venom, who tells him to get the mother alien a weapon and stand guard over them until he gets back. 803 asks if Venom will destroy him if he complies, and Venom jokingly replies that he'll do so only if 803 is good.

On the ship's bridge, Kio tells his pilot to steer the ship into the Broken Sea. The pilot protests, saying the were-fish will tear the ship apart, but Kio retorts they can use the corpse of the intruder to distract them. As the pilot expresses confusion at Kio's statement, Venom attacks and knocks out one of the crew-members. Kio calmly asks what a Symbiote wants with a simple pirate like himself, and Venom states that he's taking Kio's cargo. Kio amends his statement, noting that Venom is not just a simple Symbiote but an Agent of the Cosmos, and Venom asks him if he knows what an Agent of the Cosmos is. Standing up, Kio pulls out a sonic pistol and says that the Agents of the Cosmos are nothing and weak. The sonic wave peels the Venom symbiote away from Flash's face, causing it to screech in pain, and Kio mockingly observes that Flash is an Earthling and that that makes him even weaker. Separated from the symbiote, Flash tries to figure out a way out of his situation as Kio states he's going to sell the symbiote and feed Flash to the were-fish. Kio boasts that he calls his sonic weapon "The Scream", and Flash makes a reference to the Alien film's tagline before slamming his fist onto a red button and hoping the symbiote will know what to do. The ship's cargo bay doors open, jettisoning the ship's occupants and contents into space. Rebonding to the symbiote, Flash latches onto the ship with webbing, then spots the alien family and Kio being attacked by were-fish. Venom saves the family and leaves Kio to be devoured, making his way back to the ship and retrieving 803.

Returning the aliens to their homeworld and family, Flash learns that no-one has attempted to harvest their blood in millions of cycles and that a darkness is spreading across the galaxy, but that the mother is relieved that the Agents of the Cosmos are still watching over them. When Flash asks what the Agents of the Cosmos are, the mother responds that they are heroes, which Flash notes is an answer he can work with. Flash returns to his ship to find 803, who says that Flash should have left it in space. Flash tells 803 that it is free, which the robot says does not compute. Flash tells 803 that it can come along with him if it wants, but that he's in charge and it'll have to help out, meaning no destruction for the time being. 803 states that it is fluent in three million languages and 217 forms of torture, but before it can go into more detail Flash tells it to be quiet, noting that things worked out fine for a series of broken plays, and that maybe being an Agent of the Cosmos won't be so bad after all.

Appearing in 2nd story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Venom: Space Knight #2

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • 803
    (Only in flashback)
  • Agents of the Cosmos
    (First appearance)
    (Only in flashback)
    • Tarna
      (First appearance)
      (Only in flashback)
    • Myntril
      (First appearance)
      (Only in flashback)

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

Locations:

  • Unnamed Planet holding an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
  • Unnamed Planet the Guardians of the Galaxy were fighting on
    (Only in flashback)
  • Outer Rim
    (Only in flashback)
    • Unnamed P'qui Planet
      (Only in flashback)
  • Earth
    (Mentioned)
  • Unnamed Half-Destroyed Planet
    • Gramosian Space Pirates' outpost
      (First appearance)
  • Gramos
    (Mentioned)

Items:

Vehicles:

  • Kio's spaceship
    (Only in flashback)
  • Agents of the Cosmos' spaceship
    (First full appearance)
    (Only in flashback)

Synopsis for 2nd story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Venom: Space Knight #2
At an interstellar intervention group meeting, Flash introduces himself, saying it's been a while since his last meeting, but that he has two jobs. He states that things are finally starting to click with his main job due to his excellent co-worker, but things are more complicated with his new job. A little over 63 hours earlier, Venom was on a jungle planet fighting crustacean-like monsters in a swamp. As a crustacean grabs him in its pincers, 803 radios Venom to warn him that he's detected readings three systems back. Ripping off the crustacean's pincer, Venom tells 803 to keep an eye out for the ship that's been following them, causing 803 to ask why they even came to the jungle planet in the first place when they're being pursued by a warship. Venom responds that he heard a cry for help in his head again, exiting the swamp to be hailed as a hero by the indigenous P'qui aliens. As acid rain begins to fall from the sky, Venom shields them with his symbiote and asks where their village is. The P'qui respond that it's downriver, so Venom envelops them with his symbiote and asks who they called out to help from. The lead P'qui responds that they prayed to help from Hjuo, their goddess, leaving Flash confused. He asks what the crustacean-monsters were, and is told they are called fmora and are usually docile, but that a giant drill drove them out of their native habitat and made them aggressive.

Reaching the village as the acid rain ends, the lead P'qui offers to take Venom to the drill, saying it fell from the sky months ago and has upset the balance of the planet. At the drill site, Venom asks if there are any workers, and the P'qui responds that it's automated and periodically fires canisters filled with the fmoras' food into the sky. Asked why the drill is there, Venom says he doesn't know but tells 803 to _target it, scan its technology, and open fire. 803 does so, and the P'qui celebrate and hail Flash as the incarnation of Hjuo. 803 asks Flash if he is a god now, and Flash retorts to get them out of there. 803 complies, belatedly informing Flash that they are trapped by a massive ship. Flash tells 803 to kill the engines, and the robot does so saying he's happy Flash decided to simply let the ship obliterate them and that there's no shame in a quick death. Flash says that if the massive ship wanted to destroy them it would have done so already, and 803 notes they're caught in a tractor beam. Flash jokingly compares the ship the Death Star, confusing 803, then tells the robot to stay with the ship and run as soon as he gets a chance.

Exiting his ship and entering the massive vessel's cargo bay, Flash looks around and then calls out saying that he knows he's being watched and to get this over with. As the Venom symbiote covers him, a female purple alien with a fanged maw, red eyes attached to cephalofoils, long black hair, and hoofed feet attacks with a roar. Realizing the alien is bonded to a symbiote, Venom suggests they work things out peacefully, but the alien only roars and attacks, transforming an arm into a bladed tentacle and slashing him across the chest. Sprouting a fanged maw as he starts to get angry, Venom asks if the alien is a baseball fan before ripping a pipe out of the wall and bashing her with it. As the alien morphs her other hand into a pair of long claws and slices the pipe apart, Venom asks if it knows that symbiotes are supposed to be peaceful, speculating that alien is "one nasty piece of work" under her symbiote. Speaking for the first time, the alien retorts that Flash has no idea as she transforms her hands into a pair of sickle-blades. Just as the alien lunges, a voice sternly proclaims that's enough, as a top-heavy six-eyed male alien bonded to a white symbiote appears.

The white alien introduces himself as Myntril and the purple alien as Tarna, both of them Agents of the Cosmos like Venom. Tarna protests, saying that Venom is weak and barely in sync with his symbiote, but Venom interrupts saying that he and the symbiote have gotten along fine since the Agents of the Cosmos cleansed it, with his only problem being Myntril and Tarna stalking them and the voice in his head. Myntril clarifies that the voice Venom is hearing is the will of the Cosmos, saying that the Agents are tied to the Cosmos itself and that when they hear it call out they answer. Retracting the symbiote from his face, Flash asks if all being an Agent of the Cosmos entails is helping where help is needed and making the universe a better place one planet at a time, stating that sounds like fun, to Tarna's confusion. Flash asks why they were following him, and Myntril replies that they were testing him. Tarna says it was to see if he was worthy, but Myntril amends her statement to seeing if Flash was ready. Flash asks how he performed, and Myntril replies that he did very well, though Tarna snidely says he did adequately at best. Flash sarcastically notes that he and Tarna are going to be the best of friends, but she dismisses him as a waste of time and walks away. When Flash sarcastically remarks that Tarna must be popular on her homeworld, Myntril informs Flash that she is feared by all who have met her. Flash asks about the drill he destroyed, and Myntril responds that he doesn't know who is responsible but that they're not sanctioned by any of the galactic empires the Agents of the Cosmos are aware of. Myntril adds that the one responsible for the drill is likely the same person who tried to purchase the chemical weapons Venom intercepted, causing Venom to wonder aloud at the presence of rogue alien terrorist arming themselves with deadly weapons. As Venom boards his ship, Myntril says that Tarna is in charge of training him but that she will most likely disregard that duty, and to remember that the Cosmos is always with him.

At the intervention group, Flash concludes that it feels like he's been given a second chance and feels great, thanking the assembled aliens for listening to him and asking if the black liquid they're drinking is coffee.

On a half-destroyed moon, the Gramosian space pirate Mercurio discusses the destruction of the drill with his second-in-command, Tubin. When Tubin calls him a lord, Mercurio retorts that he will only be worthy of that title when he has conquered their homeworld. Asked what to do about Venom, Mercurio asks Tubin who the vilest creature in their cells is. Tubin replies that it is Pik Rollo, and Mercurio instructs him to place her on their fastest ship and tell her to bring him Venom's head.

Appearing in 3rd story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Venom: Space Knight #3

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

Locations:

  • Gorfin-7
    (First appearance)
  • Unnamed volcanic planet
    • The Great Eye
  • Xffgath
    (Mentioned)

Items:

  • Rumble Suit

Vehicles:

  • Flash's ship
  • Tubin's ship

Synopsis for 3rd story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Venom: Space Knight #3
On Gorfin-7, Flash and 803 have just finished helping construct a bridge, and Flash announces his intent to take a vacation on a planet Rocket Raccoon told him about. The cosmos informs Flash of trouble on a volcanic world, a war between a species of Amazonian Medeusa-like aliens and a species of igneous creatures. Flash detaches himself from the Venom symbiote due to its weakness to intense heat, and dons a suit of powered armor 803 calls a rumble suit. When Flash arms himself with a gun, 803 informs him that due to the planet's volatile atmosphere he won't be able to use it or the suit's armaments, instead presenting him with a sword.

As Flash lands on the planet, 803 informs him that he only has 30 minutes before the suit melts. Flash is attacked by one of the Medusa-like aliens and activates a translator. The alien introduces herself as Iqa, the queen of the Wugin, accusing him of being one of the Usurpers who have destroyed her planet. Flash explains that he came to help restore the planet, and Iqa warily calls off her attack, informing him that three cycles prior a comet crashed into the Great Eye, a volcano sacred to her people, causing it to erupt. Flash tells her that it was a piece of technology, impressing her with his intelligence due to the males of her species being slow and only useful for breeding. Flash asks about the igneous creatures her warriors are fighting, and she tells him they are the Underdwellers, who live inside the Great Eye and blame the Wugin for its eruption. Battling their way through a horde of Underdwellers, Flash and Iqa arrive at the top of the Great Eye. 803 warns Flash that the rumble suit might not be able to withstand being submerged in lava, but Flash says it'll melt anyways. 803 asks for permission to fly Flash's ship into the nearest star should he not survive, but Flash tells him to spend eternity writing songs in his honor instead. Diving into the volcano, Flash destroys the device destabilizing the volcano and is pulled out of the lava by Iqa, who tells him that her planet has been restored and she is indebted to him. Flash starts to tell her it was nothing, but she interrupts by kissing him and offering him a place in her husband stable. Flash politely refuses and returns to his ship.

Onboard his ship, Flash tells 803 he kissed an alien, and the robot wonders if he isn't technically kissing the Venom symbiote while wearing it, ruining the moment. Flash tells 803 he miscalculated the rumble suit's durability, only for it to promptly fall apart. As Flash leaves to take a nap, 803 tells him he has prepared something special in the med bay.

As Flash's ship departs, Tubin's ship arrives. Tubin reports to Mercurio that Flash destroyed their Seed and asks if they should replace it, but Mercurio tells him to pursue Venom instead. Tubin informs Mercurio that Flash is headed for Xffgath, and Mercurio orders him to unleash Pik Rollo. Tubin opens a cell door to reveal a massive, growling silhouette with glowing red eyes.

In the med bay, 803 presents Flash with a pair of prosthetic legs, overjoying him. Flash notes he'll need a cane while figuring out a physiotherapy routine, and 803 states he can make one from the remains of the rumble suit. Flash stops abruptly and asks who's flying the ship, and 803 informs him the Symbiotes is at the helm. As Flash rushes into the cockpit, the Venom symbiote - in humanoid form despite not having a host - turns to face him and says they need to talk.

Solicit Synopsis

Reprinting VENOM: SPACE KNIGHT #1-3.

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