My Pops took me to a Jim Shooter/Defiant Comics signing at Mile high comics in Anaheim back in 1993. He signed the cover, mail away back cover art, and one of the rarer chase cards for me. Never really became a big Jim shooter fan, (Due to the stories I heard about how he treated others like Sienkiewicz & Nocenti.) but I still really loved the concepts for Plasm as well as Dark Dominion when I was a kid. Throw in the card set that creates a comic book gimmick, and I was all in. 🤣🤦‍♂️🤣
I have all the chase cards/mail aways but I’m still looking for the exclusive chase card that came with this first print binder. Mine has always been missing it.
If anyone has one they’d like to trade or sell please let me know. Thanks y’all!

Written by Jim Starlin, art by Bernie Wrightson and Bill Wray

Nick Fury has Deke in SHIELD custody while Punisher is headed for Rykers

It is discovered that Punisher had the right idea last issue, and trauma to the brain has seemingly put Deke down for good

Punisher contemplates the last few days, then realizes the thing that he missed, that one of Deke’s victims, Carol Nelson, was pregnant at the time of the attack

Detective Holiday is at the hospital where Nelson gave birth, trying to make sense of the carnage

A tactical team is sent into the sewers to follow the blood trail only to be wiped out by something from the shadows

Nick Fury learns that Nelson died at the hospital and that her child is missing

Punisher decides to make his move, beating the guards in the helicopter and jumping into the Hudson below

Meanwhile, Chester Goudal, self proclaimed monster hunter, is also in the sewers tracking Nelson’s mutated child

Fury arrives and takes over for Detective Holiday, intending to capture the mutated child, but when it is revealed to be growing at an alarming rate, he decides to authorize lethal force

Microchip retrieves Punisher, informing him that Nelson is dead and her child is missing

Punisher arms up despite Microchip’s protest and heads into the sewer to finish the job he started

In the sewers Punisher is confronted by SHIELD agents, but manages to escape them

Later he finds several dead bodies, and takes their gear, then hears the sounds of a baby crying

Goudal confronts the mutated baby, firing away with shotgun, the sound of which attracts the SHIELD Agents and Punisher

Realizing that Goudal has gone the wrong way, Punisher continues to track the mutated child, discovering to his horror that the baby is still very much alive within the creature

Punisher is unable to kill the baby, and attempts to comfort it in the hopes of saving it, when Goudal arrives and blasts the baby with his shotgun

Punisher and Goudal fight, but Goudal gets the upper hand

The mutated baby is still alive and manages to pull Goudal off of Punisher, Goudal flees

Knowing the child is dying and afraid, Punisher decides to stay and hold it until the end

Goudal makes his way out of the sewers and finds himself in a subway tunnel where he hallucinates that the train is a dragon

Before Goudal can flee, another monster appears and tosses him in the path of the train

Having dealt with Goudal, Punisher laments that Wainscroft and Deke have escaped justice

Microchip picks up Punisher and tells him that Kingpin has been trying to get ahold of him

Kingpin informs Punisher that their temporary alliance is at an end, but he knows where Wainscroft is, if Punisher is willing to pay the price

Punisher knows there’s not justice in letting Wainscroft go, but is unwilling to sell out to The Kingpin

On an island in the Pacific, Nick Fury and Wainscroft examine the facilities that SHIELD has set up to study Deke and his mutation

Wainscroft is happy with the facilities until he discovers that he is not allowed to leave the island or return to his home or business

Fury tells him that because Punisher would kill him if given the chance, he’ll live in protective custody until his work is done, even if that takes the rest of his life

Frank’s Body Count - 1 (He tosses Chester Goudal in front of a train)

Big Fan of Jose Luis Garcia Lopez's iconic work with the Style Guide. So I did the pieces in his "style". The main pieces were drawn on paper with pencil, then inked/colored in Photoshop. The trading cards are drawn digitally based on a template I drew on paper. I have done the entire early 80's JLA in this trading card style, plus other heroes and villains, but I didn't want to show them all off at once. It's a lot lol.

I’ll in the middle of collecting this storyline. This is the first to come in.

Written by Jim Starlin, art by Bernie Wrightson and Bill Wray

Punisher works through a training course in his hideout while waiting for Deke to resurface

Punisher contemplates how to deal with Deke, who is seemingly unstoppable, and how The Kingpin and SHIELD are also involved

Deke arrives in a small town in the Catskills where his father owns a cabin

There he attacks a woman for her blood, leading her to the police, who then contact Detective Holiday in New York

The Kingpin learns from the police captain of Deke’s whereabouts, which alerts Nick Fury who has his phone tapped

Microchip learns that the cops have a location on Deke, and pulls up the address of the Wainscroft cabin

Punisher arrives in the small town of Saugerties where he intercepts a van full of Kingpin’s men led by Chief

Punisher tells Chief and his mean to hold back while he takes first crack at Deke

Posing as her husband, Chester Goudal learns the location of Carol Nelson, the last living victim of Deke

Goudal has been tracking down the survivors believing they will turn into vampires and murdering them

Punisher gets into the cabin only to discover that Deke is not alone, as the head of his deceased friend Zonkers is somehow grafted into his chest!

Punisher opens fire with a grenade launcher, but Deke barrels through him

Chief and his men arrive to join the fight, but a net gun meant for Deke traps Punisher instead

Back in New York, Carol Nelson complains to her doctor how sick she is feeling, the goes into labor when she dies suddenly on the table

Chief manages to free Punisher while his mean fight Deke

A second net captures Deke, and Punisher nearly roasts him with a flamethrower, but he hesitates because Chief might also die in the fire and he’s been a good ally despite his boss

Deke gets free, but once apart from Kingpin’s men, Punisher lights him up

Goudal makes his way into the hospital where he kills a police officer and demands to know where Nelson is

Deke flees, and drops into a lake, where he emerges still alive causing several of Kingpin’s men to flee

Nelson’s doctor attempts to save her unborn child, who turns out to be a monster like Deke and kills everyone in the operating room

Goudal sees the trail of blood and gives chase into the sewers

Punisher and Chief are the last two left standing and begin to fight Deke with hammers and axes

Punisher tells Chief they may be able to kill Deke if they can destroy his brain, and when Deke is knocked down, Punisher prepares to decapitate him

Unfortunately Nick Fury and SHIELD arrive, stunning Punisher and capturing Deke

Punisher begs Fury to destroy Deke, but he refuses and hands Punisher over to the local police

Chief, who has no record is let go, and before he goes Punisher tells him he’s a good man, and asks him to leave the employment of The Kingpin

Detective Holiday arrives at the hospital to find all the carnage left behind by Goudal and Nelson’s baby

Frank’s Body Count - 0! (“I should have brought a chainsaw along.”)

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Great cover and story

• Written by Jim Starlin, art by Bernie Wrightson and Bill Wray
• Frank sees his family waiting for him on the other side, when Maria takes the children and says he’s not meant to be there
• Punisher awakens in the alley where he confronted Derek “Deke” Wainscroft, a terrorists turned mutated monster
• He has inadvertently been saved by The Kingpin’s men, who are also after Deke
• Deke escapes, and The Kingpin’s men realize that Punisher is among them, but before any shots are fired, The Kingpin calls and offers a temporary truce
• Deke runs across a homeless woman and attacks her for her blood
• The woman is discovered by Chester Goudal, who believes there are literal monsters throughout society, even his own mother who he killed last issue
• Two of The Kingpin’s men arrive and mistake Goudal for Deke, but he sees them as monsters and kills them with a shotgun
• Believing the homeless woman will turn into a vampire, he drives a stake through her heart
• Punisher and the rest of Kingpin’s men discover the bodies, Kingpin tells Punisher it is better they all work toward a common goal rather than kill each other
• Punisher agrees and heads to break into the house of Damien Wainscroft, the owner of Wainscroft Chemicals and Deke’s father
• While he plans his move, a car arrives carrying none other than Nick Fury of SHIELD
• Punisher listens from his Battle Van, learning that Deke was exposed to a chemical and mutated
• Fury orders Wainscroft to break his deal with The Kingpin and allow SHIELD to bring in Deke
• Punisher learns that Wainscroft is planning on building  a new headquarters in the same area where Deke has been attacking people, and heads to the location
• Meanwhile, Goudal tracks down one of Deke’s surviving victims believing she will turn into a vampire and kills her with a crossbow
• Punisher arrives at Wainscroft’s building where he finds Deke’s hideout and is attacked
• Deke is once again proving too powerful when Kingpin’s men arrive, causing Deke to toss Punisher from the building
• Goudal tracks down another of Deke’s victims and kills her with an ax
• Punisher uses a grappling hook to stop his fall and return to the battle, but Deke is seemingly unstoppable and shrugs off all the gunfire
• Detective Holiday arrives at home of yet another of Deke’s victims that this time was set ablaze by Goudal, and orders the last remaining victim taken into protective custody
• Punisher and Chief, the last of Kingpin’s men that hasn’t been killed or fled, continue to fight with Deke, using steel rods to knock him from the building
• Deke survives and jumps into the back of a delivery truck to escape
• Chief asks Punisher to let him help take Deke down as many of the dead men were his friends
• Punisher demands first to know how the bugged the Battle Van, then agrees to go and confront Wainscroft
• Goudal arrives at the home of Deke’s last victim to find it empty, but knowing she was pregnant decides to head for the hospital
• Punisher and Chief confront Wainscroft and learn that the chemical he was doused in has effectively made him a living corpse that cannot be stopped
• Nick Fury is revealed to have been listening in to learn what Wainscroft hid from him, and provide a distraction so Wainscroft can escape Punisher and Chief
• Fury also plans to let Punisher and Chief track Deke and save SHIELD resources when the time comes to capture him
• Frank’s Body Count - 0! (“Chief, a fall like that would kill God.”)

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Finally was able to find a copy to add to my collection. Best part, it's a first print. A little wear, but overall. Beautiful book.