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The Punisher #81
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Frank Castle looms large on this August 1993 cover, clad in his skull-emblazoned vest and armed with an assault rifle, set against a fiery red cityscape with glowing headlights cutting through the urban gloom behind him. The tagline "Good Cop… Bad Cop!" hints at the law-enforcement tensions waiting inside in "Bodies of Evidence," a story from writer Steven Grant. Hoang Nguyen's cover art gives Castle a raw, imposing presence that captures the Punisher at his most uncompromising.
writer Steven Grant · artist, inker Hoang Nguyen · colorist Matt Hollingsworth · letterer Ken Lopez · cover Hoang Nguyen
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writer Steven Grant
artist, inker Hoang Nguyen
colorist Matt Hollingsworth
letterer Ken Lopez
cover pencils, inks Hoang Nguyen
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Reprinted in Punisher Epic Collection #8 (2025)
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