*Marvel: Following his successful mini-series, it wasn’t going to be long before Frank Castle, vengeful ex-family man and assassin-for-hire, got his own ongoing title, and in 1987 Marvel duly obliged, kicking off Fearless Frank’s longest-running series to date, in which he travelled around the world exterminating, erm, assassins and other criminals (yeah, but they were worse criminals than he was, all right?), while occasionally teaming up with super-heroes who logically should have been queuing up to arrest him. Be that as it may, here’s the first ish!
PICTURED: PUNISHER (1987) #1 VF p £20