Witness Some Of The Earliest Encounters Between The One-Man War On Crime And The Wall-Crawler In New Comic Book Series Punisher Vs. Spider-Man

[JayC]

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.

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.

“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,” explains Abnett. “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.”

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?!

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. 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.

PUNISHER VS. SPIDER-MAN #1 (OF 5)
Written by DAN ABNETT
Art by MATTEO DELLA FONTE
Cover by JONAS SCHARF
Variant Cover by NETHO DIAZ
On Sale 7/15

[leokearon]

Flashback books then to be hit or miss so this will be a wait and see

[SpiderS]

Mostly always good stuff from Abnett, art looks pretty nice, reminds me Michael Lark and Steve Epting. Come to think of it, Legends 2 pack with the reference of the Punisher's first Appearance in ASM could be awesome.