PUNISHER STORYTIME
All this year I'll be storytiming Punisher comics, with most of the focus being on pre-Ennis era material. You can expect some Ennis era stuff as well at some point. Maybe even also post some post-Ennis era material. Expect at least 1 storytime every week.
Earlier this week I posted the first several issues of Chuck Dixon's run on The Punisher War Journal (which you can still read here: >>94580959 ). 7 awesome issues of standalone "done-in-one" stories, all showcasing Dixon's grittier action-heavy street crime focused style of Punisher stories, with the man himself taking on everything from mafia hits to home invasions to train hijackers to botched robberies and even a Christmas story! And all without a single super villain or major recurring character making a single appearance. Just Frank vs. down-to-earth criminals, taking out the trash, and kicking some ass.
Today's storytime is the COMPLETE opposite of all that.
Today we're going to read 1 bigass LONG AS FUCK story arc called "Dead Man's Hand", a 9 issue intra-company "crossover" that ran between The Punisher War Journal, Daredevil, and Nomad (remember him? y'know, the 3rd BUCKY?) in 1992 for 3 issues a piece.
It stars the three titular characters, and features a METRIC FUCKING TON OF VILLAINS AND GUEST STARS. I MEAN FOR FUCK'S SAKE THERE ARE SO MANY CHARACTERS IN THIS! It'd really be easier to name who ISN'T in this, so I won't even bother. Just trust me, you'll wanna stick around to see who all shows up.
It's a pretty cool story overall and one of the better examples of taking The Punisher and throwing him in with a bunch of superheroes and super villains and actually making it work (probably by sticking to ones that it sort of made sense for him to team-up/fight with).
So let's read this thing.
THE PUNISHER
DAREDEVIL
NOMAD
DEAD MAN'S HAND
STORYTIME
>>94628990
PREVIOUS STORYTIMES HERE:
Circle of Blood
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/88815455/
Return to Big Nothing
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/88890646/
Marvel Preview #2 / Marvel Super Action #1
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/89163408/
Punisher #1-10
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/89314601/
Daredevil #257
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/89328851/
Assassin's Guild (Marvel Graphic Novel #40)
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/89514921/
Punisher #11-20
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/89630150/
Intruder (Marvel Graphic Novel #51)
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/89872272/
Punisher War Journal #1-7
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/90057656/
Punisher War Journal #8-9 / Punisher #21-25
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/90256890/
Shadowmasters #1-4
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/90266172/
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #15 / Daredevil #182-184
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/90424952/
Punisher War Journal #10-19
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/91415649/
Punisher War Journal #20-24
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/91603354/
Punisher #26-34
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/91789401/
Punisher #35-40
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/91949530/
Punisher #41-44
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/92177730/
The Punisher Armory #1-5
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/92381649/
The Punisher Armory #6-10
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/92386592/
The Punisher Armory "Extras"
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/92392093/
Punisher #45-49
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/92589441/
Punisher #50-52
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/92772989/
Punisher #53-62
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/92978294/
Cage #3-4
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/93120045/
Punisher War Journal #25-30
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/93144066/
Punisher War Journal #31-37
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/93299524/
Punisher Summer Special #1-4
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/93344539/
Kingdom Gone (Marvel Graphic Novel #64)
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/93578406/
cont.
>>94629000
AND HERE:
Punisher #63
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/93759059/
Punisher #64-70
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/94017367/
Punisher #71-75
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/94104047/
No Escape
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/94384224/
Ghost Rider & Wolverine & Punisher - Hearts of Darkness / Ghost Rider & Wolverine & Punisher - The Dark Design
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/94434440/
Punisher War Journal #38-44
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/94580959/
>>94629033
BUMP IF YOU'RE READING
>>94629061
Who's looking forward to The Platoon?
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DEAD MAN'S HAND PART II
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Letters page
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DEAD MAN'S HAND PART III
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>>94630009
Well, that was a little excessive.
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>>94630466
Letters page
I think this guy was a minor Moon Knight villain.
>>94630484
Cripe, I was referring to >>94630466
>>94630483
DEAD MAN'S HAND PART IV
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>>94630303
>he really was hauling body parts
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>>94628990
I've only read the Punisher issues of this before now.
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Letters page
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DEAD MAN'S HAND PART V
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>>94631182
Poor Chichester. His DD is really underrated, but it'll forever be known as the 90's armor suit run.
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DEAD MAN'S HAND PART VI
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Letters page
>>94632059
I miss this Secret Empire.
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DEAD MAN'S HAND PART VII
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Letters page
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DEAD MAN'S HAND PART VIII
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>>94632947
At this rate he'll be back on top in no time!
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>>94633574
>devil on his shoulder
Perfect.
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Letters page
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DEAD MAN'S HAND FINALE
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Letters page
And that's that.
>>94628990
>the baby on his back
The Lone Wolf & Cub thing that they were going for with Nomad was always weird.
>>94629196
This is the best Bucky ever.
>>94629314
Those discs are fucking retarded.
>>94629389
>tosses him out a window
That's actually a pretty cool scene.
>>94629455
Who the fuck is The Word? I can't find ANYTHING about her in google.
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>>94629484
>Tombstone
>Hammerhead
>The Slug
>The Word
>Justin Hammer
>Andreas von Strucker
>Andrea von Strucker
>Werner von Strucker
>Snakeskin
>The Secret Empire
>Yakuza
>The Hand
FFS, they've got EVERYBODY in this thing! And that's not even counting the mafia that appeared earlier!
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>>94629552
And Kingpin, too!
>>94629576
Does anybody remember Nomad's ongoing? Was it actually worth reading?
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>Bushwacker
Fucking everybody is in this.
>>94629680
Who's the bitch?
>>94629732
>Donahue
>Lotus
Well shit. They're still ramping up the cast.
>>94629755
>Mr. Tolliver
They just keep adding more and more characters.
>>94629840
>Deadpool
Let's just have every single character in the Marvel universe in this story arc. Why not?
>>94630046
>Fabian Nicieza is pronounced "NISSY-SA"
Huh. I never would have figured that.
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>>94630357
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
>>94630061
Cool cover.
>>94630326
Who the fuck is this?
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>>94630444
Isn't that Viper?
>>94630483
>Marvel explicitly comes out completely 100% against replacing characters.
They really were a completely different company back then.
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>>94630466
So this guy's just Leatherface?
>>94630611
>Zorro shit
Really?
>>94630624
lol
>>94630710
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?
>>94630761
OH SHI-
>>94628990
reading it
It's weird how Jack started off as replacement Bucky and grew into his own character with his own place in the Captain America family only for him to later be killed by the original Bucky who proceeded to take over Jack's role in the Cap family.
>>94631073
That cover is insane. That doesn't actually happen in the issue, does it?
>>94641122
It does. >>94631459
>THIS IS WHAT I AM!
>>94631140
>someone actually remembered that Tombstone can only talk in a whisper
This is normally possibly the single most overlooked character trait by writers.
>>94631335
>that old lady
I'm actually impressed by how long they've kept this running joke going. I wonder if she'll make another appearance.
>>94639176
Originally.
She was later retconned into being a body double called "Pit-Viper".
>>94641238
He's been talking in whispers in a lot of recent comics, or at least the ones by David Walker.
>>94631365
>Terror
OH WOW! THERE'S AN UNEXPECTED CAMEO!
>>94629134
That's a pretty cool take on radar sense.
>>94631438
>Silvermane
They're just trying to put every character they can think of in this thing now.
>>94631579
>this dialog
>>94631675
AWESOME cover.
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>>94631830
Wait... He got that baby earlier. Why the fuck does Chainsaw have it now? Did the writers not consult with each other on this story?
>>94632109
>Something poetic about running down Japanese gangsters in a Detroit-built car.
heh. best line in the issue.
>>94632230
Better than anything related to that term nowadays, that's for fucking sure.
>>94632322
The Hand have always been among my favorite Marvel villains.
>>94632338
Why the fuck is there a smoking hole in the table?
>>94632554
>Baron von Strucker
Well shit.
>>94633009
Who the fuck is the karate guy?
>>94633457
heh
>>94633227
>HEY-POO-POO
WHAT THE FUCK?!
Kinda mediocre cover.
>>94634292
This last page is actually pretty funny.
>>94644557
Fuck, this was meant for: >>94633684
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>>94632392
I would really love some kind of omnibus for the Punisher stories after Welcome Back Frank. It's hard to even find a list of them.
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>>94644847
You mean the Marvel Knights volume?
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>>94644758
Here's a version with the speech balloon edited out.
bumping for others
>>94641528
I've always liked it better than that black/magenta thing in Waid's DD that everyone raved about.
Punisher! Fuck Yeah!
>>94629061
Oh god, what the fuck is this
>>94629222
Dardevlil's expression here is great.