| Amazing Spider-Man #252 was the first appearance of the black costume to see print, so I'd count it as the first appearance of the costume, however, it wasn't the first continuity-wise as that happened in Secret Wars #8, which explains how he got it; the Secret Wars issue actually was published after the suit's first appearance in the Spider-Man comics. Still, I'd consider Venom's debut to be when the symbiote first appeared with Eddie Brock as host (which would be Amazing Spider-Man #298 going by the standard used for Wolverine's debut.)
On a sidenote, I got all of them except for the More Fun Comics one. |