THE PUNISHER

Prepare to be punished! For the first time ever, Marvel's one-man-army takes center stage in a no-holds-barred Mature Readers series! Writer Garth Ennis and artist Lewis LaRosa take PUNISHER to the MAX - literally - as the hunter becomes the hunted!

Nicky Fury's got a job that needs doing - in Russia.

Ubergangster Nicky Cavella is back with a vengeance -- this time hitting Frank Castle where he least expects it -- right in the black pit of his hardened heart.

On a pitch-black Brooklyn night, in a dead-end alley, Frank Castle brutally dispatches a crew of Albanian thugs menacing a young woman.

Jigsaw, Ma Gnucci, the Russian - Frank Castle's faced some fearsome foes in his day, but none as stone-cold rotten to the bone as the Barracuda.

The last time General Nikolai Alexandrovich Zakharov encountered Frank Castle, the two men were playing chicken with a dozen nuclear warheads over Moscow. Since then, well, let's just say Zakharov's not the type to forgive and forget. When a mutual enemy of Castle comes with the perfect plan to lure Frank out of his hole, Zakharvo is all ears.

Garth Ennis concludes his seminal run on Punisher - in style. Thirty-five years ago, the Fifth Cavalry disgorged their troops on an isolated Vietnamese hilltop and was met by a scene of utter devastation.

Wilson Fisk is a bodyguard for mob boss Don Rigoletto, but he has his eyes on a much bigger prize, and he's gonna use Frank Castle to help him realize his dreams. It's the biggest story in MAX history, as we witness the birth of the greatest villain the Punisher has ever faced.

The Punisher's one-man war on crime has been going well lately. A little too well. The mob bosses that make up the heads of the major crime families have banded together to finish off the Punisher for good.

They say he's the deadliest assassin the world has ever known. They say that once he sets his sights on someone, he never misses, no matter what he has to go through to get them.  Though his methods may seem unorthodox, even insane, they say he's never failed to kill a single target.  No one knows where he comes from or why he does it.  No one knows his name.  They all just call him Bullseye.

His final confrontation with Bullseye left Frank Castle wounded and reeling in more ways than one. Now confined to a prison hospital bed, Frank must begin the long painful process of healing - not just his broken body, but also his horribly scarred soul. To do that, he'll have to face the darkest secret of his past - one he'd hoped would stay buried forever.

For the first Time In His Long And Bloody Career, Frank Castle May Be Beaten. After Facing The Kingpin's Hired Gun Bullseye, The Punisher Has Suffered More Than Just Broken Bones: Bullseye's Attack On His Psyche May Have Hurt Him The Most. Frank Is Questioning His Mission, And That Doubt Has Crippled Him. Locked Away In Prison, Frank Can Do Nothing But Stew In His Own Thoughts Of Failure.

The Punisher Is At His Lowest Point - Homeless, Penniless, Gun-Less. But None Of This Changes The Fact That He's Got His Sights Aimed Squarely On The Most Powerful Man In The Country: Wilson Fisk, The Kingpin Of Crime. Fearing For His Life And Paranoid, The Kingpin Brings In A New Bodyguard, The Best Money Can Buy: A Hard-As-Nails Woman Going By The Name Of Elektra.

Since his family's death, Frank Castle has waged a brutal, never-ending war on crime as the Punisher. Once, he was the most feared man in the city - but no more. Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime, has brought him as low as he's ever been. No home, no weapons, no resources - just a broken old man with nothing to lose.

The Punisher takes on all comers as his bloody war on crime continues! Frank Castle has faced some fearsome foes in his day, but none as stone-cold rotten to the bone as the Barracuda. He's big, he's mean, and the last thing on Earth you want is to see him smile.

The Punisher's fiercest foe returns! As if a load of buckshot to the chest in shark-infested waters could put Barracuda down for good. But is even he man enough to play bodyguard to the hemophiliac son of a dangerous mob boss? If Barracuda can survive that gig, he'll be out to settle his score with Frank Castle.

Tales of death, depravity and destruction - Punisher-style!

Frank Castle's relentless war on crime continues!

The Mob has set a trap for Frank Castle, turning low-level enforcer Wilson Fisk into a fictional "Kingpin of Crime" for Frank to target. But Fisk decides he likes his new position - enough to kill his bosses to keep it. Suddenly, the Punisher finds himself in a one-on-one war with a deadly threat, and he must decide how far he's willing to go to take down the Kingpin!

Collecting four action-packed Punisher tales drawn by Laurence Campbell. First, a lurid tell-all book leads the Punisher on the trail of a hitwoman marked for death. Who is Butterfly? And will the Punisher be her salvation, her temptation, or her damnation? In GET CASTLE, Frank travels to a Welsh mountain range to unleash his unique brand of vengeance, but is he the hunter or the hunted?

Five award-winning authors bring their unique literary visions to the world of PUNISHER MAX!

A Special Forces soldier is injured and his family is killed in the midst of a mob execution in Central Park - but this isn't Frank Castle. This time, it's a young soldier named Jake Niman, and the heartbreakingly familiar story puts Frank on the path of punishment! But as Jake heals from his wounds, why is he growing strangely stronger?

Baptized in a barrel of butcher knives! You'd think getting killed by the Punisher would be easy. You'd be wrong. Minus an eye, half his teeth and a handful of fingers, shot through the chest and thrown to the sharks, the man-mountain known as Barracuda is looking for a little payback.

Frank Castle's relentless war continues in a trio of hard-hitting graphic novels!

In his relentless war on crime, the Punisher doesn't have many allies. But those he can rely on include...the Shadowmasters! They're the latest in a long line of ninjas who have served as the protectors of Japan's Iga Province for centuries. In the wake of World War II, U.S. Army Captain James Richards and Shadowmaster Shigeru Ezaki forge a friendship in battle.

Garth Ennis returns to the world of the Punisher! A dozen Russian mobsters lie dead at Frank Castle's feet - but he wasn't the one who pulled the trigger.

This book is exactly what it sounds like: The Punisher kills everything...IN SPACE! Punishment is a dish best served in the cold vacuum of outer space, as Frank Castle shoots his way through an interplanetary criminal hierarchy - starting with the Sym-Brood-ant Queen!

Frank Castle stars in an explosive epic so big it took three titles to contain it! When the Punisher undertakes his most extravagant hit of all - collapsing an entire skyscraper on a group of crime bosses - he ends up dead himself! Or does he? With a vigilante vacuum on the streets, a host of psychopathic killers lays claim to the Punisher's crown - and iconic chest symbol!

The Marvel Universe meets the next generation of punishment! Frank Castle has disappeared, but evil will always need to be punished. As new threats rise to claim innocent victims, criminals become aware of a dangerous vigilante hunting them from the shadows. Who is the new Punisher? What terrible event put him on his path of vengeance? And as he grimly presses on to complete his mission of punishment, will he make it out alive? Barricaded within his fortified tower, the crime lord known as the Offer is defended by an army of guards, the latest in cutting-edge security and a team of stone-cold super villains capable of slaughtering a battalion. It won't be enough!

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: MAY 28, 2024

Before the Punisher was born in Vietnam, Frank Castle had already become a dark legend of the battlefield. Stories about him were told in whispers, if at all. Now the legendary creative team of Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov brings the first of those stories to light: the tale of Frank Castle's first command, and his first kill. 

Frank Castle doubles down on his war on crime, courtesy of two of the finest creators ever to take on the character. If you're a mob boss, hitman or hired goon, one day you're gonna end up in Punisher's War Journal.

The Punisher is back - with a vengeance! When a superhuman Civil War breaks out, Frank Castle finds himself square in the crosshairs of G.W. Bridge, a S.H.I.E.L.D. big gun who always gets his man. Frank should be lying low, but when spandex-clad bad guys start carrying badges...well, that's something he just can't abide.

Angry and dangerous loners are famed for keeping journals, and Frank Castle is no exception!

The Bushwacker has taken a hostage in the heart of Times Square.

Can one man stand against an army fueled by pure hate? With recent tragedies still rattling in his head, Frank Castle finds himself tied to a fencepost with barbed wire, watching what may be his last sunrise. Somewhere along the U.S./Mexico border, a super-militia bent on igniting a race war has been killing scores of innocent people.

The reintroduction of a classic, brutal and bloodthirsty Kraven the Hunter!

The reintroduction of a classic, brutal and bloodthirsty Kraven the Hunter!

All the players are assembled...the stage is set...the lights are lowered...and a conspiracy 18 issues in the making begins.

All the players are assembled...the stage is set...the lights are lowered...and a conspiracy 18 issues in the making begins.

She's back and she wants payback.

Frank Castle, the one-man army known as the Punisher, is forever redefined in the latest volume of our series of graphic novels handpicked by Marvel Editorial to showcase pivotal storylines written and drawn by some of Marvel's most acclaimed creators!

Frank Castle - the Punisher - is a one-man army locked, loaded and ready to take down anyone in his way, meting out the ultimate punishment to criminals: death. The Punisher makes his return by eliminating the ruthless Ma Gnucci's crime family - pursued by the NYPD's two-detective Punisher Task Force, crazed contract killer the Russian and super hero Daredevil; and emulated by three copycat killers who want to join forces with him.

Punisher War Journal, Page One: We've known for years about the deaths of Frank Castle's wife and children, but now we see Castle himself mere hours later, when his grief and rage were at their freshest.

Which are better, claws or guns? Find out in this brutal collection of Wolverine/Punisher fights - and grudging team-ups!