All-New Venom #4 (243) - First Appearance of Sleeper Agent, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: All-New Venom (Marvel, 2025 series)
Issue: #4 (243)
Publication date: May 2025
Key date: May 2025
On-sale date: March 12, 2025
Indicia publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
Price: $4.99
Pages: 36
Barcode: 75960621047300411
Rating: Rated T+

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Sleeper Agent - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Adam Kubert; inks: Adam Kubert; colors: Laura Martin	Venom, M.O.D.O.K. Superior, George Tarleton
1	-	comic story	20	script: Al Ewing; pencils: Carlos Gómez; inks: Carlos Gómez; colors: Frank D'Armata; letters: VC's Clayton Cowles	Anti-Venom, Jill Carson, Andrew Forson, Rick Jones, Madame Masque, Whitney Frost, Ripcord, Robbie Robertson, Sleeper, Sleeper Agent First, Flash Thompson, Toxin, Venom, M.O.D.O.K. Superior
2	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
3	-	in-house column	2	script: Nick Lowe
4	Next	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Adam Kubert; inks: Adam Kubert; colors: Laura Martin

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Gabriele Dell'Otto Cover	barcode 75960621047300441
Kimono Variant - Peach Momoko Cover	barcode 75960621047300421
Gabriele Dell'Otto Virgin Cover	barcode 75960621047300416
Giuseppe Camuncoli Connecting Cover	barcode 75960621047300431

Where to read it

Collection	Year
All-New Venom: Who Is All-New Venom? #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-96819-9	2025	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #3 (242)4 of 10#5 (244) ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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