THE PUNISHER

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.

Back in the U.S. of A.! Frank Castle brings the War Machine armor home to renew his one-man war on crime. Now nothing can stand in his way! Well, unless Captain Marvel and the other heroes have something to say about it! For with bigger guns, Frank has a taste for bigger game.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

He killed the world - and now he has to save it! In a routine strike on mobsters and weapons dealers, Frank Castle unleashed a dangerous pathogen that has destroyed human society, turning everyone it touches into murderous cannibals.

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?

In the waning days of the Vietnam War...the Punisher is born. The year is 1971. With mounting casualties and a rising anti-war sentiment, America's time in Vietnam is coming to a close. Yet in the isolated Valley Forge Firebase on the Cambodian border, Captain Frank Castle is one of the few soldiers still committed to the fight against the enemy.

Not so long ago, the Punisher attempting to assassinate the Green Goblin would most likely have been met with ambivalence. But Norman Osborn has decided he prefers suits to green masks and the authoritarian law-enforcement agency H.A.M.M.E.R. to a weapons-enhanced glider. So when Castle put the former super villain in his sites, it wasn't received quite as well.

Criminals, take warning - the Punisher is gunning for you! When a brutal mass murder reveals a gang war brewing in the shadows, only one man can deliver vengeance on the guilty: the Punisher. But Frank Castle is a force of nature. Once he's unleashed, none who cross his path - not unwitting victims, conflicted cops, super villains or fearless reporters - will emerge unscathed.

Welcome to the war zone. The Punisher faces off against the Avengers, but it's going to take more than bullets to take down Earth's Mightiest Heroes. It's the matchups you never thought you'd see - Frank Castle vs. Thor, Captain America, Iron Man and more - with his protégé, Rachel Cole, caught in the middle.

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

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.

It's a clash between two vigilantes with very different ideas about justice! A simple change of venues for one of Matt Murdock's cases becomes more complicated when the Punisher attempts to send the defendant away - permanently! If Daredevil and his protégé, Blindspot, want this Russian mobster to have his day in court, it will take everything they have.

Three of Marvel's most hardcore heroes take on Blackheart, demonic son of Mephisto! When Danny Ketch, Logan and Frank Castle are lured to the Midwest town of Christ's Crown, they're offered a devilish deal: Kill the king of hell, and the answers to secrets that plague them will be revealed!

The Master of the Mystic Arts and the One-Man War on Crime unite their unique talents! When mafia demons strike, it'll take the combined skills of Doctor Strange and the Punisher to stop them! But does this mean Stephen Strange will adopt Frank Castle's lethal ways? Or will the Punisher learn some new tricks?

The Punisher is back in the Big Apple: Start spreading the bullets! He's coming today! He wants to shoot the crime of it...New York, New York! And when a blackout hits the city, the dark brings out some of the worst its mean streets have to offer.

You can take the Punisher out of the War Machine... Frank Castle may no longer have the Stark-designed armor, but he has retained his taste for "big game" criminals - and he's hungry for more. But the paths to such high-value targets are fraught with dangers greater than any Frank has faced before, and this lone wolf could use powerful help on his way across the world stage.

All-out war - just the way Frank likes it! The Punisher is at war with Baron Zemo - but he soon discovers that Zemo's plans are even more sinister than Frank Castle believed!   

Frank Castle renews his war on crime! But when a by-the-numbers drug bust takes Frank by surprise, the horrible fallout threatens to send him into the heart of darkness! The Punisher won't make that journey alone, though: A DEA agent is on his tail and attempting to get inside his head.

The streets run red in the aftermath of Spider-Man, Daredevil and Punisher's search for the Omega Drive. The Omega Effect has reshuffled the deck; now, it's time for Frank Castle to lay down the law. Rachel Cole isn't going to like what she hears, but even punishment has a code.

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

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

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.

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.

Bestselling author Kevin Maurer joins Nathan Edmondson for a story of jungle warfare! American soldiers are being held by a South American drug lord, when a new prisoner arrives: Frank Castle! But not all is as it seems on either side of the bars, and now a wounded Frank and a Special Forces medic must hazard dangerous terrain and merciless mercenaries to escape!

The Punisher's mission takes him from wilderness to frozen wasteland! But as Frank's quest to bring down a super-powered drug ring sends him far off-road and deep into the woods, the predator may become the prey!

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: War Machine! For years, Frank has been fighting his one-man war as the Punisher, targeting criminals who endanger the innocent and dispatching them with lethal force. He's used all the tools at his disposal, and he's gotten extremely good at his self-appointed job.

The Punisher is extradited to the worst place imaginable: Bagalia, Hydra Nation itself! Frank Castle has been in jail before, but never one like this - on an island country packed to the gills with super villains! But just as the Punisher enters the lion's den, Baron Zemo makes his move!

The War of the Realms may be over - but for the Punisher, the conflict never ends! To combat Malekith's invasion, Frank Castle raised his own personal army. And now, in the war's aftermath, they have some scores to settle!

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.

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.

She's back and she wants payback.

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?

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.

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

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.