Marvel Tales: Ravencroft # 1 (Marvel Comics 2020)
Things take a dark turn as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the House of Ideas with the era-spanning Marvel Tales.
This anthology series shines a spotlight on fan-favorite characters, features timeless stories and highlights some of our most impressive talent from the past eight decades.
This time we're focusing on the Ravencroft Asylum for the Criminally Insane - and some of its deadliest inmates.
First, Spidey legends J.M. DeMatteis and Sal Buscema introduce Ravencroft founder Dr. Ashley Kafka in the psychological Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #178/
The asylum's most famous resident, Cletus "Carnage" Kasady, wreaks havoc in Spider-Man Unlimited (1993) #1 - the first chapter of the epic Maximum Carnage.
And modern masters Dan Slott and Stuart Immonen take things to a whole new level of crazy in Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #798 - where Norman Osborn plus the Carnage symbiote equals...the Red Goblin!
Marvel Tales: Ravencroft # 1 is written by J. M. DeMatteis and Various with art by Sal Buscema and Various and a cover by In-Hyuk Lee.
Marvel Tales: Ravencroft # 1 is a 80 page full color comic book published by Marvel Comics and is rated T.