This summer Peter Parker and Frank Castle take a walk down memory pain in PUNISHER VS. SPIDER-MAN, an all-new five issue limited series detailing some of the duo’s earliest encounters in the Marvel Universe.
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Taking place shortly after Punisher’s debut dust-up with Spider-Man in the pages of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129, writer Dan Abnett (IMPERIAL GUARDIANS) and artist Matteo Della Fonte (NOVA: CENTURION) force Peter Parker and Frank Castle to set aside their differences for the greater good… until they inevitably turn on one another once again.
Abnett explained in a Marvel press release:
“I’m very happy to be writing these two characters in a head-to-head together, and to be revisiting the Punisher, a character I haven’t written since YEAR ONE in the nineties.
The series is a whole lot of fun and full of big action, and some genuine surprises as they learn stuff about each other for the first time. That’s the real joy of going back to this pivotal early point in continuity: there’s a freshness in their encounters and interactions that I think readers are really going to get a kick out of.”
Check out the main cover for PUNISHER VS. SPIDER-MAN #1 by Jonas Scharf and a variant by Netho Diaz, plus interior pages by Matteo Della Fonte below.
Netho Diaz Variant Cover:
PUNISHER VS. SPIDER-MAN #1 (OF 5)
THE PUNISHER AND SPIDER-MAN, two of the most notorious names in New York City with very different approaches to making the Big Apple safer (or not, depending on who you ask!). Brought together by happenstance and forced to stay that way by an ally from Frank Castle’s past in need, will the web-slinger and the gunslinger be able to begrudgingly set aside their differences before they find themselves at one another’s throats?!
- Written by DAN ABNETT
- Art by MATTEO DELLA FONTE
- Cover by JONAS SCHARF
- Variant Cover by NETHO DIAZ
And for more early days Spider-Man vs. Punisher action, look for the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129 FACSIMILE EDITION [NEW PRINTING] in comic shops this July.