All this year I'll be posting Punisher comics. Most of them will be from the pre-Ennis era, but some will be from the Ennis era. Expect at least 1 storytime per week.
Yesterday I posted the Marvel Knights & MAX Punisher Christmas specials. You can read them right here: Today we're technically NOT reading Punisher comics.
Sort of.
What I'm going to post will be the first couple of Marvel Holiday Specials from the early 90s, which DO have Punisher stories in them, but aren't "Punisher comics" per se.
The original Marvel Holiday Special was released in 1991 and to this day ranks up there as one of the best comic book Christmas special issues ever released, alongside such classics as DC's Christmas With The Super-Heroes #2. Almost every story in it is good, and none of them are worse than just OK, and there is some seriously excellent talent on the book including Steven Grant and Klaus Janson working together on The Punisher and a reunion of Walt Simonson and Art Adams on the Fantastic Four. Today it's considered something of a cult classic and it's easy to see why. It's just REALLY solid shit and a MUST read if you enjoy that sort of thing.
The 2nd issue doesn't have quite the following as the 1st, but it holds up pretty well as a successor to the original. There's Carl Potts on The Punisher, Peter David on Doc Samson, Jim Starlin on Thanos, and Ann Nocenti on Daredevil, among a few other stories.
There were also Holiday Specials for 1993, 1994, and 1996 (1995 had a Spider-Man Holiday Special instead), but those don't have Punisher stories, so I won't be posting them. If someone else wants to I'd have no problem with that whatsoever (though only 1 more would fit in this thread, because these are LONG), but that's up to you guys to handle. Plus the fact that they get worse with each issue (though 1993 is OK-ish I guess) makes me just not really care enough to bother.
BUMP IF YOU'RE READING SO THAT I DON'T HAVE TO TAKE BREAKS TO BUMP IT MYSELF BECAUSE THIS IS LONG
Adrian Bell
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Brayden Perez
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Parker Perry
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Chase Smith
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Levi Sanchez
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Ethan Foster
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Colton Wright
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Jason Wright
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Ryan Hall
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Jaxson Peterson
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Mason Jones
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Kayden Gomez
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Nolan Jenkins
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Camden Moore
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Jace Hernandez
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Aaron Morales
AND NOW FOR THE PUNISHER STORY
Hudson Cook
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Christopher Mitchell
I miss them
Lincoln Kelly
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Jayden Barnes
Don't even remind me. They're my second favorite Marvel characters after The Punisher. Though with Marvel the way it is now, I'd rather they just not publish them (or anything else for that matter) at all. Imagine a FF book as bad as Cloonan's garbage tier run on The Punisher. I think most comics fans are sick of seeing Marvel ruin their characters in general. The last thing anyone wants is for that to happen again.
Wyatt Barnes
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Joseph Edwards
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Evan Reyes
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Xavier Cooper
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Christopher Baker
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Ryan Nguyen
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Logan Butler
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Tyler Gray
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Samuel King
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Jace Miller
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Michael Reed
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Chase Rogers
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Cooper Reed
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Jayden Rodriguez
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Jordan Sanchez
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Mason Harris
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Anthony Thomas
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Grayson Rogers
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John Richardson
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James Allen
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Jace Taylor
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Camden Powell
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Cooper Taylor
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Ryder Smith
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Caleb Sanchez
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Justin Harris
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Liam Ramirez
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Noah Ross
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Nathaniel King
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David Young
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Daniel Morales
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Xavier Lewis
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Josiah Wood
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Jace Ward
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Ethan Howard
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Jayden Garcia
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Henry Price
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Ethan James
>tfw no Santa Ghost Rider, not even as a gag in crowd scenes