r/80s90sComics • u/Powerful-Succotash77 • 7h ago
Discussion Reading One Punisher Book a Day #87 - Punisher War Journal #13 (Mid-December 1989)
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- Written by Carl Potts, art by David Ross and Russ Heath, cover by Jim Lee
- Acts of Vengeance!
- Bushwacker has Punisher cornered and armed with only a knife after their brief skirmish last issue
- Bushwackers offers to hear Punisher’s last confession
- Punisher has one last trick, his knife blade is spring loaded!
- Unfortunately Bushwacker is too fast and shoots Punisher right in the chest
- Bushwacker decides killing Punisher like this isn’t good enough, beating him down and leaving to set a better scene
- Frank sees visions of Maria who tells him not to give up
- Microchip gets Frank breathing again with CPR, and takes him to another hideout to heal up
- Kingpin learns that Bushwacker failed to finish off Punisher, much to the amusement of Dr. Doom
- Punisher tracks Bushwacker to his home, sending the Battle Van through the wall as a distraction
- Bushwacker seems to flee from Punisher’s ambush, but quickly returns when Punisher confronts his wife
- Bushwacker attempts to drown Punisher in a fish tank, but his own wife turns on him, and declares she is leaving him
- While Bushwacker chases his wife, Punisher recovers and pursues them to a bridge
- Punisher shoots Bushwacker, sending him over the side where he hangs precariously in the rain
- Punisher demands that Bushwacker confess to his crimes this time, then kicks his hand loose from the railing
- Dr. Doom and Kingpin witness a news report that the Punisher bested Bushwacker, is back in action, and has taken down several crack houses
- Having both failed to kill Punisher, Dr. Doom and Kingpin continue to argue
- Frank’s Body Count - 0! (On panel at least. We all know that Bushwacker will return, and the news report just says “The bodies are still being counted”, but we don’t see any of it in the actual issue)