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Venom #250
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Venom #250

Muppets 70th Anniversary Variant · Nick Bradshaw · Secret Wars #8 homage · original first printing · Collect Forever Soft Slab

1 October 2025

Marvel's legacy 250th Venom issue, released 1 October 2025, bringing Knull back into the series and positioning Hela as the Queen in Black. This copy is Nick Bradshaw's Muppets 70th-anniversary variant, a deliberate Secret Wars #8 homage that connects the anniversary cover programme to the Marvel issue famously associated with the origin of Spider-Man's black costume.

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Issue
#250 · Muppets Variant
Publisher
Marvel Comics
State
Collect Forever Soft Slab · ungraded
Condition
Excellent apparent presentation; ungraded and enclosed in a Collect Forever Soft Slab.
Completeness
Comic appears complete as encapsulated. No separate insert, poster, free gift or supplement is identified for this edition, but the interior cannot be directly inspected while enclosed.
Rarity
Not assessed

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Catalogue note

Marvel's legacy 250th Venom issue, released 1 October 2025, bringing Knull back into the series and positioning Hela as the Queen in Black. This copy is Nick Bradshaw's Muppets 70th-anniversary variant, a deliberate Secret Wars #8 homage that connects the anniversary cover programme to the Marvel issue famously associated with the origin of Spider-Man's black costume. Physical UPC 75960621330625051 secures the exact original first-print variant identity.

Writer: Al Ewing · Charles Soule

Artist: Terry Dodson · Todd Nauck · Carlos Gómez · Frank D'Armata · VC's Clayton Cowles

Cover: Nick Bradshaw · colours by Rachelle Rosenberg

Edition: Original first printing · Nick Bradshaw Muppets 70th Anniversary / Secret Wars #8 homage variant · physical UPC 75960621330625051 · specialist/distributor Cover E; Collect Forever front label #250B · followed by confirmed second printing on 19 November 2025 in two covers; no confirmed third or later printing found as of 27 August 2026

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ComicsMarvel ComicsCollect ForeverAl EwingCharles SouleTerry DodsonTodd NauckCarlos GómezNick BradshawRachelle RosenbergFrank D'ArmataVC's Clayton CowlesPopular Culture

Why this object matters

Bradshaw’s Muppets/Secret Wars quotation combines two anniversary and franchise histories in one cover, giving strong comparative visual-culture value. It is a contemporary homage rather than the original black-costume publication milestone; 8.0 is more proportionate than 8.8.

Evidence limits: Comic appears complete as encapsulated. No separate insert, poster, free gift or supplement is identified for this edition, but the interior cannot be directly inspected while enclosed.

Score and assessment method

Archive Importance: 8 / 10.

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