Punisher: The Ghosts of Innocents

(Marvel, 1993)
™ and ©1993 Marvel Entertainment Group

Frank Castle, the vigilante known as the Punisher, got word of the drug buy just hours before the deal was set to go down. Maybe that’s why he didn’t plan things out with the skill he is known for. Instead he rushed right in, spraying bullets at the crowd of assembled mobsters and turning a city street into a killing ground. In the heat of the fight, only one gunman got away, but he made his escape by hijacking a school bus loaded with children. Castle leapt onto the bus and attempted to stop the gunman, but in the fight, the bus driver was shot. The gunman fled, and the bus ran onto a set of railroad tracks where it collided with an oncoming train. Only Castle survived the wreck.

In this grim, two-part series, the wounded Castle must bring the gunman to justice, even though it means taking on the Kingpin and eluding the police. All the while, he is quite literally haunted by the ghosts of the innocent children whose deaths he had a hand in causing.

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Writer

Artist

#1

January, 1993
Cover Price: $5.95
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Jim Starlin

Tom Grindberg

#2

January, 1993
Cover Price: $5.95
6 copies available from $4.50

Jim Starlin

Tom Grindberg