PUNISHER STORYTIME

PUNISHER STORYTIME

All this year I'll be storytiming Punisher comics. Most of them will be from the pre-Ennis era, but there'll be a few from the Ennis era as well. Expect at least 1 storytime per week.

In 1995, Marvel went bankrupt. As a result, most of their comics were cancelled. Nearly every character that wasn't Spider-Man or a mutant got cut back to 1 book, nearly all of their licensed comics were dropped (prior to this Marvel used to be THE go-to publisher of licensed comics in the direct market era), and they mostly stopped publishing constant "spin-offs" and "graphic novels" and miniseries and other random shit, and anything with mediocre sales was just flat-out cancelled outright.

The Punisher specifically got scaled back to a single ongoing (which was REALLY shitty [don't ask {trust me}]). No more War Journal or War Zone, no more seasonal "specials", no more Annuals, none of the constant one-shots or miniseries. Just a lone book (that's better off not discussed) and nothing more aside from maybe a miniseries with Nick Fury (don't even look that one up, you'll regret it).

But before the mass cancellation, there was one final Punisher story. A multi-part tale called "Countdown", which literally counted down from 4 to 0 (so the first part was "Part 4" and the last part was "Part 0"). Written by Chuck Dixon, it ran across all 3 Punisher ongoings at the time and was used to wrap up each one of them.

And Marvel must not have gotten much advanced warning on the cutbacks, because Countdown begins more or less in the middle of the events that were already happening at the time with The Punisher having just escaped Microchip's trap and Microchip's new "Punisher" and that guy in the giant robot suit from one of the War Zone Annuals trying to kill Rosalie Carbone who had hired Bullseye and whatever the fuck else was going on at the time. And then this thing comes in and has to wrap everything up out of nowhere.

PUNISHER COUNTDOWN

STORYTIME

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PREVIOUS STORYTIMES HERE:

Circle of Blood
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Return to Big Nothing
desuarchive.org/co/thread/88890646/
Marvel Preview #2 / Marvel Super Action #1
desuarchive.org/co/thread/89163408/
Punisher #1-10
desuarchive.org/co/thread/89314601/
Daredevil #257
desuarchive.org/co/thread/89328851/
Assassin's Guild (Marvel Graphic Novel #40)
desuarchive.org/co/thread/89514921/
Punisher #11-20
desuarchive.org/co/thread/89630150/
Intruder (Marvel Graphic Novel #51)
desuarchive.org/co/thread/89872272/
Punisher War Journal #1-7
desuarchive.org/co/thread/90057656/
Punisher War Journal #8-9 / Punisher #21-25
desuarchive.org/co/thread/90256890/
Shadowmasters #1-4
desuarchive.org/co/thread/90266172/
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #15 / Daredevil #182-184
desuarchive.org/co/thread/90424952/
Punisher War Journal #10-19
desuarchive.org/co/thread/91415649/
Punisher War Journal #20-24
desuarchive.org/co/thread/91603354/
Punisher #26-34
desuarchive.org/co/thread/91789401/
Punisher #35-40
desuarchive.org/co/thread/91949530/
Punisher #41-44
desuarchive.org/co/thread/92177730/
The Punisher Armory #1-5
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The Punisher Armory #6-10
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The Punisher Armory "Extras"
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Punisher #45-49
desuarchive.org/co/thread/92589441/
Punisher #50-52
desuarchive.org/co/thread/92772989/
Punisher #53-62
desuarchive.org/co/thread/92978294/
Cage #3-4
desuarchive.org/co/thread/93120045/
Punisher War Journal #25-30
desuarchive.org/co/thread/93144066/
Punisher War Journal #31-37
desuarchive.org/co/thread/93299524/
Punisher Summer Special #1-4
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Kingdom Gone (Marvel Graphic Novel #64)
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cont.

AND HERE:

Punisher #63
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Punisher #64-70
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Punisher #71-75
desuarchive.org/co/thread/94104047/
No Escape
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Ghost Rider & Wolverine & Punisher - Hearts of Darkness / Ghost Rider & Wolverine & Punisher - The Dark Design
desuarchive.org/co/thread/94434440/
Punisher War Journal #38-44
desuarchive.org/co/thread/94580959/
Punisher War Journal #45-47 / Daredevil #307-309 / Nomad #4-6
desuarchive.org/co/thread/94628990/
Punisher Back To School Special #1-3
desuarchive.org/co/thread/95044226/
Punisher War Zone #1-6
desuarchive.org/co/thread/95065674/
Punisher War Zone #7-11
desuarchive.org/co/thread/95087394/
Punisher War Journal #48-56
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Punisher War Journal #57-60
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Punisher #76-79
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Punisher #80-81
desuarchive.org/co/thread/95378806/
Punisher #82-84
desuarchive.org/co/thread/95405865/
Punisher War Zone #12-16
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Punisher War Zone #17-19
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Punisher War Zone #20-22
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Punisher Suicide Run Preview / Punisher #85-86 / Punisher War Journal #61-62 / Punisher War Zone #23
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Punisher War Zone #24-25 / Punisher #87-88 / Punisher War Journal #63-64
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Punisher War Journal #65-69
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Punisher War Journal #70-75
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Punisher P.O.V.
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Punisher War Journal #76-78
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Punisher #89-92
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Punisher #93-96
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cont.

AND HERE:

Punisher #97-102
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Punisher War Zone #26-30
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Punisher War Zone #31-36
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Punisher War Zone #37-40
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Empty Quarter
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I AM GOING TO ATTEMPT TO STORYTIME EVERY SINGLE DAY THIS MONTH, SO THAT I CAN GET IN AS MUCH OF THE OLD SCHOOL PUNISHER COMICS THAT I'VE MISSED SO FAR AS POSSIBLE. I ALREADY POSTED 1 OTHER STORYTIME TODAY THAT YOU CAN READ HERE: REMEMBER TO KEEP BOTH THREADS BUMPED!

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PART 3

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>In the end, he was useful.

Well, I suppose it's the best eulogy that you could hope for from Frank.

PART 2

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This seems somehow exploitable.

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This is a great arc, but oh boy does what comes next for Frank stink.

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PART 1

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PART 0

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