Created by David Michelinie and Mark Bagley, Carnage was first introduced to the pages of Marvel Comics in February 1992 – a little less than four years after Venom became a fully-formed character. He is technically an offspring of his predecessor, and is best known in the comics for bonding with Cletus Cassidy, who is a sociopath and a homicidal sadist. Together they stir up all kinds of bloody mayhem, and Venom and Eddie Brock prove to be among the few that can stop them.