100% Marvel : Punisher #1

Published in 2000 as part of Panini France's Collection 100% Marvel line, this French-language edition opens Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's celebrated Punisher run with the story "Bienvenue, Frank !" Tim Bradstreet's cover art delivers an immediate, no-nonsense portrait of Frank Castle — skull emblem front and center, assault rifle in hand — rendered in the gritty, near-photorealistic style that would come to define the character's look for a generation. A compelling starting point for French readers ready to follow Castle into a world with no mercy to spare.