The Amazing Spider-Man #345 [Direct]

(March 1991)

Gun from the Heart! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

David Michelinie (credited)

Pencils

Mark Bagley (credited)

Inks

Randy Emberlin (credited)

Colors

Bob Sharen (credited)

Letters

Rick Parker (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

If it isn't one thing, it's another.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Cardiac; Silver Sable; Willie Lumpkin; Aunt May Parker; Mary Jane Parker; Boomerang (villain); Justin Hammer (villain); Venom [Eddie Brock] (villain); Cletus Kasady [Carnage] (first full appearance, villain)

Synopsis

Through Silver Sable (and without his knowledge of who the real boss is), Justin Hammer hires Spider-Man to take down Cardiac and then hires Boomerang to take down Spider-Man. Eddie Brock is freed from prison by the Venom symbiote, but as he leaves his cell, a little drip from the costume stays behind to keep Cletus Kasady company.

Reprints

• in Die Spinne (Condor, 1980 series) #204
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #516 (Marzo 25 de 1992)
• in Strange (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #272 (5 août 1992) [-3 pages]
• in Spider-Man: Venom Returns (Marvel, 1993 series) (March 1993) [pages 13, 14, 22 (last 3 panels)]
• in Spider-Man: Carnage (Marvel, 1993 series) (June 1993) [2 pages]
• in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #9/1993 ([september] 1993)
• in Spider-Man: Carnage (Marvel, 1994 series) (June 1993 [September 1994]) [2 pages]
• in Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #21 - Return of the Sinister Six (2016)
• in Carnage Classic (Marvel, 2016 series) ([August] 2016) [2 pages]
• in Spider-Man vs. Venom Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018) [pages 13, 14 and 22 (last 3 panels) only]
• in Carnage Epic Collection (Marvel, 2022 series) #1 - Born in Blood (2022) [pages 13, 14 & 22 only]

Indexer Notes

Origin of Carnage.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Spider's Web / letters page / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Dr. P.A. Dating, Brad Leverton, Daniel Phillip Barer, Chad Sokolowski, and Pat Maloney.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

Diane Rivera

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Total No. Copies Printed (net press run): Average no. of copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 489,589. Single issue nearest to filing date: 529,251.