Punisher: The Cell #1

Garth Ennis brings his unflinching MAX Comics vision of Frank Castle to this 2005 one-shot, with a cover by Tim Bradstreet that sets the tone perfectly — a grid of gritty prison imagery, including the Punisher's imposing close-up framed behind bars, skull insignia looming overhead, tattooed walls, and two guards patrolling a dim cellblock corridor. It's a stark, atmospheric portrait of confinement that makes clear Frank Castle is somewhere he was never meant to stay for long.