ESSENTIAL PUNISHER TP (2025)

"Written by GERRY CONWAY, ARCHIE GOODWIN, LEN WEIN, MARV WOLFMAN, FRANK MILLER, BILL MANTLO, STEVEN GRANT & MIKE W. BARR Penciled by ROSS ANDRU, TONY DEZUNIGA, KEITH POLLARD, FRANK MILLER, AL MILGROM, GREG LAROCQUE, MIKE ZECK & FRANK SPRINGER Cover by GIL KANE When the mob killed his family, Frank Castle went to war. But before he became the scourge of the underworld, the Punisher set his sights on a certain world-famous wall-crawler. Now, Marvel presents the vengeance-seeking vigilante's earliest appearances in the pages of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, DAREDEVIL and more. Collects AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129, #134-135, #161-162, #174-175, #201-202 and ANNUAL #15; GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN #4; MARVEL PREVIEW PRESENTS #2; MARVEL SUPER ACTION #1; CAPTAIN AMERICA #241; DAREDEVIL #182-184; SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #81-83; and PUNISHER #1-5. 568 PGS./Rated T+ ...$16.99 ISBN: 0-7851-2375-X"

"Written by MIKE BARON, ROGER SALICK, ELIOT R. BROWN & ANN NOCENTI Penciled by KLAUS JANSON, DAVID ROSS, WHILCE PORTACIO, MARK TEXEIRA, MIKE VOSBURG, ELIOT R. BROWN & JOHN ROMITA JR. Cover by KLAUS JANSON Mobsters, terrorists, neo-Nazis, religious fanatics, armored killers; no one's too tough for the Punisher! Follow the trail of blood as Frank Castle's war on crime takes him across the country, south of the border, back to school and Down Under! Plus: The Man With Lots Of Guns vs. the Man Without Fear in a crossover with Daredevil! And who will live and die when the Punisher leads what might be the world's shortest-lived crime-fighting team against the Kingpin of Crime? With Typhoid Mary and a cameo by the X-Men! Collecting PUNISHER #1-20 and ANNUAL #1, and DAREDEVIL #257."

"Written by MIKE BARON, ROGER SALICK, ELIOT R. BROWN & GREGORY WRIGHT Penciled by ERIK LARSEN, RUSS HEATH, BILL REINHOLD, MARK TEXEIRA, JACK SLAMN, TOD SMITH, JIM LEE, ELIOT R. BROWN & LEE SULLIVAN Cover by WILLIAM REINHOLD He's a boxer, he's a ninja, he's a corporate whistle-blower, he's a biker, he's an armored warrior...he's the Punisher, and he's taking his anti-crime obsession across four continents and beyond! He wants nothing to do with the superhuman shenanigans of the rest of the Marvel Universe but is nonetheless thrown against Doctor Doom, AIM, the Reavers, Jigsaw, Madam Hydra, and more! And introducing the sinister Saracen, one of the rare wrongdoers to fight the Punisher and live long enough to do it again! Plus combat tips, tech specs, and solo adventures of the Punisher's sidekick Microchip! Guest-starring Moon Knight! Collecting PUNISHER #21-40, ANNUAL #2-3 and Punisher Annual #2-3 584 PGS./All Ages $16.99"

"Frank Castle's war on crime continues as Microchip returns! The Punisher takes on rapists, drug lords, serial killers, Neo-Nazis, Yakuza, kidnappers, baby-snatchers and more - and even ends up embroiled in a Middle Eastern conflict! But when the Kingpin sets his sights on the Punisher, Frank Castle ends up sentenced to 30 years in prison - right next to old foe Jigsaw! A prison break becomes a nightmare when Jigsaw takes his revenge by slicing up Frank's face - and Microchip's solution for patching up his pal leads to the strangest change of all! Guest-starring Nick Fury, Daredevil and Captain America! Collecting PUNISHER (1987) #41-59 and ANNUAL #4-5."