Eddie Brock
In Reality Z-25 31-H, a blond-haired man with an undercut served as host to the Symbiote before Kate Five. He and the symbiote caused chaos in Cardiff, flinging cars about, until Kate intervened on behalf of Section P. When she punched him with her enhanced strength, she managed to separate the alien symbiote from its host. Sensing she would be a better host, the symbiote left the blond-haired man to possess Kate instead. The possessed Kate then hid her condition from her leaders, telling them that the supervillain had been taken down. “Within minutes” of her calling with this report, the blond-haired man was arrested and “shipped off to a holding cell”. (COMIC: Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 1)
Behind the scenes
The authorial notes on Page 1 of Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 1, included a statement that “the Symbiote is a copyright of Marvel Comics”, and James Bridger did not contradict comments on Page 3 which referred to the unnamed blond predecessor of Kate Five as host to Ghede as “Eddie Brock”. This positioned Kate Five as partially an avowed fan-comic of the Marvel universe, and identified Kate's symbiote as the Marvel character Venom.
This aspect was increasingly blurred over the comic's subsequent history, with Bridger later explicitly stating that Kate's symbiote companion was not Venom, though he may be Venom's “cousin”. Notably, the Cosmic Beholder story COMIC: Blast From The Past implied that Spider-Man himself existed in the Cosmic Beholder/Kate Five universe, making it unsurprising that some version of Eddie Brock and Venom might exist there.
