After Frank Castle's wife & kids are killed in the crossfire of a "major superhuman conflict", Frank kills Cyclops & Jubilee (though the picture looks more like Shadowcat). Frank is sentenced to life imprisonment. On his way to Rykers Frank is freed and is brought to a man named Kesselring. Kesselring wants Frank to kill "anything that calls itself a superhuman" Kesselring has a whole group of people who feel they have been wronged by superhumans on hand to finance the Punisher's operations and repetatdly free him from jail when he gets caught. This group includes Punisher's one-time ally, Microchip. In a flashback during the story, The Punisher is given a past with Daredevil where the two were friends as kids. Throughout the book, Daredevil in his Matt Murdock alter ego tries in vain to make The Punisher see reason. Punisher saves Daredevil for the end and, as Daredevil lays dying he unmasks himself, revealing himself to be Frank's friend. In grief and in an attempt to make things slightly righted, Punisher shoots himself in the head. Deaths in OrderCyclops - Shot in headJubilee - Shot multiple timesVenom - Shot multiple timesSpider-Man - Shot in headBruce Banner - Shot in headKingpin - Shot in throatDr. Doom - Beat to death by sledgehammerMagneto - Nuclear blast on the moonSauron - Nuclear blast on the moonMr. Sinister - Nuclear blast on the moonApocalypse - Nuclear blast on the moonJuggernaunt - Nuclear blast on the moonEmma Frost - Nuclear blast on the moonOmega Red - Nuclear blast on the moonSunspot - Nuclear blast on the moonPuck - Nuclear blast on the moonStrong Guy - Nuclear blast on the moonThunderbird (more likely to be Warpath) - Nuclear blast on the moonCannonball - Nuclear blast on the moonCable - Nuclear blast on the moonIceman - Nuclear blast on the moonColossus - Nuclear blast on the moonJean Grey - Nuclear blast on the moonRogue - Nuclear blast on the moonStorm - Nuclear blast on the moonWolverine - Stabbed with own claws & electrocutedCaptain America - Shot in headDaredevil - Stabbed in chestPunisher - Self-Inflicted shot to the headPrintings1st Printing released November, 19952nd Printing Steve Dillon cover released March, 2000
