Punisher: Frank Castle Max #66

Frank Castle stares out from an inverted, battered face at the center of Dave Johnson's striking cover, a red snake coiled around his head bearing the ominous legend "6 Hours to Kill" — setting a tense, countdown-driven tone for this 2009 Marvel MAX arc. Writer Duane Swierczynski kicks off "Six Hours to Kill" with artist Michel Lacombe, and the cover's stark olive-and-black palette makes the Punisher's skull emblem loom large and unsettling above it all. If you like your vigilante fiction gritty and uncompromising, this explicit-content MAX title delivers exactly the atmosphere it promises.