20 Years Ago This Month--Too Much Of A Good Thing?

In one month in 1993, all of these titles hit the newsstand:

Yeah, those are 1990s forearms...

Terrible costume. But cyber-ninjas!!

Hmmph, that's a lot of Punisher for one month...

Well, of course he has a journal. Frank Castle always struck me as a man who kept a diary...

Wait...War Journal AND War Zone? That's just lazy titling, guys. What's next? Punisher: War Games? Punisher: War Crimes? Punisher: Casualties Of War?

Oh, another "War Zone" book for the month. That's all right, then...

The official indicia title for this series is Punisher: Origin Micro Chip. They left the "of" off.

1993 also saw the publication of the Punisher Back To School Special, several issues of The Punisher: Armory (essentially a Handbook of The Marvel Universe for all of Frank's weapons and equipment), Punisher: The Ghosts Of Innocents (a 2-issue Prestige mini), Spiderman, Punisher, Sabertooth: Designer Genes (a Prestige one-shot), Wolverine And The Punisher: Damaging Evidence (a 3-issue mini), an issue of What If? (What If The Punisher Had Become Captain America?), and a Punisher Annual. Plus many, many guest appearances--prominently called out on the covers, of course. The Secret Defenders? Yup...

I'm just sayin', that's a whole lot of Punisher.

I suspect that if you tally up the body count from all of the issues of all of the titles over the years, Frank Castle has killed hundreds of thousands of crooks. So how's that war going, Frank...?