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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published August 1991
Cover Price $2.95
Pages 52
Editing Kevin Kobasic (Managing); Don Daley

Cover Details - "Crazy from the Heat!"

Characters Punisher
Genre superhero
Pencils Roderick Delgado
Inks Michael Bair
Letters Juan Martinez (Logo)

1 page Punisher credits "Title and Credits"

Genre superhero
Pencils Darren Auck
Inks Darren Auck
Letters Juan Martinez (Logo)

2 page Punisher filler "Interior Front and Back Covers"

Genre superhero
Pencils Jimmy Palmiotti
Inks Jimmy Palmiotti
Colors Jimmy Palmiotti
Notes Stylized Punisher skull.

20 page Punisher story "Bombs 'R' Us"

Characters FEATURE: Punisher; VILLAIN: Colonel De Sade
Synopsis Punisher takes down a crazy masochist that served with him in Viet Nam.
Genre superhero
Script Pat Mills
Pencils Val Mayerik
Inks Armando Gil
Colors Ed Lazellari
Letters Pat Brosseau

10 page Punisher story "Crossed Purposes"

Characters FEATURE: Punisher; VILLAINS: The Mob
Synopsis Punisher's life is saved by the son of a mob boss and he has to decide how to deal with his criminal benefactor.
Genre superhero
Script Peter David
Pencils Mark Texeira
Inks Michael Bair
Colors Gregory Wright
Letters Phil Felix

2 page Punisher advertisement "Guess Where the Punisher is Spending His Summer?"

Characters Punisher; Kingpin
Genre superhero
Pencils Hugh Haynes
Inks Jimmy Palmiotti
Letters Typeset
Notes Ad for the summer's bi-weekly Punisher run.

8 page Punisher story "Independence Day"

Characters FEATURE: Punisher
Synopsis Punisher helps a cop take down one of America's most wanted.
Genre superhero
Script Dan Slott
Pencils Mike Harris
Inks Jimmy Palmiotti
Colors Joe Rosas
Letters Bill Oakley

2 page Punisher advertisement "Rules of the Game"

Characters Punisher; Nick Fury
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Lee
Inks Jim Lee
Letters Typeset
Notes Ad for a Jim Lee Punisher/Fury graphic novel that never saw the light of day (Don Daley said in one of the Punisher's letters pages that 18 pages were all that had been completed).

5 page Punisher story "Wish Granted"

Characters FEATURE: Punisher; VILLAINS: Terrorists
Synopsis Punisher runs up against a band of young Middle-Eastern terrorists with a death wish.
Genre superhero
Script Will Murray
Pencils Rodney Ramos
Inks Rodney Ramos
Colors Santiago Oliveras
Letters Pat Brosseau

1 page Punisher (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "Back Cover"

Characters Punisher
Genre superhero
Pencils Roderick Delgado
Inks Roderick Delgado
Letters Typeset