Publisher Description

Experience the gritty and uncompromising PUNISHER MAX from the very beginning! When a mob hit killed his beloved wife and children, Frank Castle became the Punisher - an unstoppable one-man army waging war on every piece of criminal scum plaguing New York's streets. But do the Punisher's origins trace back even further? In 1971 Vietnam, Captain Castle's platoon faces a Viet Cong attack - and to survive, he must make a grim choice. Then, Punisher's old partner, Microchip, long thought to be a casualty of Castle's war, resurfaces with a startling offer! Will the Punisher play patsy for the CIA? If not, will they let him walk away? And in a story ripped from the headlines, Castle must take on rival Irish gangs when a bomb goes off in Hell's Kitchen! Collecting BORN #1-4 and PUNISHER (2004) #1-12.

Author Biography

Garth Ennis, a Northern Irish comics writer now based in New York, is best known for the Vertigo series"Preacher" and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics' "Punisher" franchise. He has collaborated with artists such as Steve Dillon and Glenn Fabry on "Preacher", John McCrea on "Hitman", and Carlos Ezquerra on both those titles and Battlefields. The artists in this astonishing collection are Steve Dillon, John Burns, Dermot Power, Cliff Robinson, Greg Staples, Colin McNeil.

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