Punisher: The Ghosts of Innocents
Marvel · 1993 · 2 issues
About the series
In this stark 1993 Marvel two-issue series, writer Jim Starlin and artist Tom Grindberg strip the Punisher down to his haunted core, forcing Frank Castle to confront the collateral damage of his one-man war on crime. Rather than a typical action romp, the story lingers on the ghosts of innocents caught in the crossfire, pushing the vigilante toward a grim moral reckoning. A somber, character-driven meditation from a celebrated cosmic writer, it stands as an early, unflinching look at the psychological cost of vengeance in the Punisher's mythos.