The Punisher #2

The second chapter of Marvel's five-issue 1986 limited series puts Frank Castle front and center in a gritty New York subway setting, his assault rifle leveled straight at the reader while a gang of armed thugs closes in from the stairwell behind him. Mike Zeck's cover pencils give the scene a raw, street-level intensity — the skull emblem on Castle's chest unmistakable even as chaos erupts around him. With the story titled "Back to the War," this issue promises the kind of relentless, no-quarter tension that made The Punisher one of Marvel's most compelling anti-hero titles of the decade.