The Punisher #57

The stark, sepia-toned cover of The Punisher #57 fills the entire frame with Frank Castle's scarred, scowling face — rendered in intense close-up by Jim Lee and Eliot R. Brown — accompanied by the bold proclamation "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE." That single headline, paired with the story title "America's Most Hunted," sets a grim, hunted-man tone that feels perfectly suited to late 1991's gritty Marvel landscape. With interior work from writer Mike Baron and artist Hugh Haynes inked by Jimmy Palmiotti, this issue promises the kind of hard-edged vigilante storytelling the series does best.