Wolverine / Punisher: Revelation #1
In *Wolverine / Punisher: Revelation #1* — "Chapter One: Ladies in Waiting" — Wolverine and museum curator Caley rush to investigate a collapsed tunnel beneath the Museum of Cultural History, only to awaken a long-sealed entity known as Revelation. As a strange sickness spreads through the city, the Punisher is called before the Council of Thrones, where his newfound angelic powers are under scrutiny. Written by Tom Sniegoski and Christopher Golden, with art by Pat Lee and inks by Alvin Lee, this 1999 Marvel crossover blends supernatural dread with moral reckoning, all rendered in bold colors by Angelo Tsang and Pat Lee, and lettered by Richard Starkings and Comicraft. The cover by Pat Lee and Alvin Lee captures the tension with a stark, haunting image of the two heroes at a crossroads.
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Wolverine is on a date with the curator of the Museum of Cultural History when his new lady love gets a call that workers on a museum expansion have broken through an underground tunnel and fallen in. Wolverine and Caley go to the rescue but find the tunnel inhabited by a creature named Revelation who has been awakened from a complex containment unit. Caley falls sick and quickly dies as a mysterious plague begins to affect people on the street. The Punisher is summoned by the Council of Thrones who are debating whether he should be allowed to keep his new angelic powers.
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