High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eddie Brock is a fictional character created by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane. A comic book supervillain, Brock`s earliest appearance is a cameo in Web of Spider-Man #18 (September 1986) before making his first full appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #299 (April 1988) as Venom. The character has since appeared in many Marvel Comics publications including his own series Venom. Introduced as the first incarnation of the Spider-Man villain Venom, the character becomes an anti-hero working with and against superheroes.