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Punisher: P.O.V.                                                                  Trade Paperback Lot
Featuring Macabre Bernie Wrightson “Punisher” Cover Art!  Awesome!!
Writer: Jim Starlin
Artist: Bernie Wrightson
Colorist: Bill Wray
Letterer: Bill Oakley
Editors: Suzanne Dell’Orto, Carl Potts, Nel Yomtov & Tom DeFalco
All Covers by: Bernie Wrightson

The Punisher (a.k.a. Frank Castle) was created by writer Gerry Conway and artists John Romita Sr. and Ross Andru, with publisher Stan Lee green-lighting the name. The Punisher made his first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (cover-dated February 1974). The Punisher is a war veteran and a United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper skilled in hand-to-hand combat, guerrilla warfare, and marksmanship.

Driven by the deaths of his wife and two children who were killed by the mob for witnessing a killing in New York City’s Central Park, Frank Castle becomes a vigilante who employs murder, kidnapping, extortion, coercion, threats of violence, and torture in his campaign against crime. As the Punisher, he wages a one-man war on the mob and all violent criminals. His family’s killers were the first to be… Punished!

After having first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #129, Frank Castle, a.k.a. the Punisher, later got his own title. Following up on this title’s popularity, Marvel later introduced several other titles featuring the death-dealing vigilante, including Punisher, Punisher: War Zone, and Punisher War Journal. As well as many, many other mini-series and one-shots… along with countless appearances throughout the entire Marvel Universe.

Punisher: P.O.V. is a horrifying mini-series by Jim Starlin with art by Bernie Wrightson. It tells how Derrick “Deke” Wainscroft and Barry “Zonkers” Powell were released from prison in 1990, having served less than a year for each of the sixteen people their bombings had killed. These “revolutionaries” immediately went back to their old ways. Within days, a series of bank bombings had brought their body count to over forty people. In doing so, they attracted the attention of the Punisher, who swore to bring their terror to an end. Before he could act, one of the pair’s own bombs exploded on them in their hideout. Cradling Zonkers’ decapitated head, the horribly burned Deke sought refuge in the sewers. Even then, his luck was bad – his own father’s chemical company chose that time to flush thousands of gallons of mutagenic waste on top of him in the sewer system. Deke should have died then. Instead, he became something… not quite human…

Story/Spoilers
In issue #1, “Book One: Foresight”, Convicted murderers paroled, couch potatoes preparing for an alien takeover of our society, and political/industrial bigwigs sending their sludge down the city’s drains… what’s a man like Frank Castle to do except lock on target and retire the lot of ’em! Which is exactly what you’d expect him to do, but things just don’t seem to work out quite so easily for the Punisher.

Next in issue #2, “Book Two: Extrospection”, What’s grosser than gross? On one hand you have a deranged psycho who sees monsters in every human so he’s taken it upon himself to rid the world of them, and on the other hand you have a disfigured paroled murderer whose been blown up, covered in industrial wastes, and has a penchant for surviving ordeals that would send ordinary people to the here-after. When you’re Frank Castle, the Punisher, the decision is easy… waste them both, only this just isn’t Frank’s day.

Next in issue #3, “Book Three: Introspection”, Twice now Frank Castle has tangled with the grotesque Wainscott who seems able to combine the DNA from other animals into his own creating an amalgamation with an attitude. This time, Castle enlists aid from an unlikely source, Kingpin’s own weapon gurus! But while this fight takes place, it seems our couch potato with an overactive imagination turns out to be right! Aliens ARE taking over!

Finally in issue #4, “Book Four: Hindsight”, Couch potato or not, only the deranged fat man is on the right track to find the new grotesque abomination in the sewers after it ripped though the hospital staff. But when the Punisher arrives on the scene, the abomination isn’t quite what it was thought to be.

Trade Paperback lot collects: Punisher: P.O.V. (1991) Issues 1-4.  Marvel Comics

Trade Paperbacks are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publication Date: 1991
Format per: FC, 48 pages, TPB, 10.20″ x 6.65″
ISBN-10: 87135778X (Book #1) 871357798 (Book #2) 871357801 (Book #3) 87135781X (Book #4)
ISBN-13: 9780871357786 (Book #1) 9780871357793 (Book #2) 9780871357809 (Book #3) 9780871357816 (Book #4)

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperbacks 1,2,3,4 are Like New.  Very Fine to Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Punisher and/or Bernie Wrightson collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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