The Punisher #2 [Cover B - Steve Dillon]

(May 2000)

Badaboom, Badabing (Table of Contents: 1)

Punisher / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Garth Ennis (credited)

Pencils

Steve Dillon (credited)

Inks

Jimmy Palmiotti (credited)

Colors

Chris Sotomayor (credited)

Letters

Richard Starkings (credited); Wes Abbott of Comicraft (credited as Comicraft's Wes Abbott)

Genre

crime; superhero

Characters

Mr. Bumpo; Ma Gnucci (antagonist) (introduction, voice only); The Holy (introduction); Joan the Mouse; Punisher [Frank Castle]; Detective Martin Soap (introduction); Spacker Dave; Bud Plugg (introduction); Joe Malizia (introduction, dies); Harry Thornton [Heck Thornton] (introduction, dies); Eddie Lau (introduction, dies); Tall Joe Small (introduction, dies)

Synopsis

The Punisher's war against Ma Gnucci's family continues. Luckless Detective Martin Soap is assigned to the Punisher case.

Reprints

• in The Punisher (Panini Deutschland, 2000 series) #1
• in 100% Marvel : Punisher (Panini France, 2000 series) #1 - Un monde sans pitié (septembre 2000)
• in Mega Marvel (Egmont, 1997 series) #5/2001 (2001)
• in Punisher (Marvel, 2001 series) #[1] - Welcome Back, Frank (April 2001)
• in Marvel Actionalbum (Seriehuset AS, 2004 series) #1 (mai 2004)
• in The Punisher by Garth Ennis Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) (2008)
• in Die offizielle Marvel-Comic-Sammlung (Hachette [DE], 2013 series) #18 - Punisher: Frank ist zurück, Teil 1 (Januar 2014)

Fast Lane, Part 4 of 4: Back on Target (Table of Contents: 2)

Spider-Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Glenn Herdling (credited)

Pencils

Gregg Schigiel (credited)

Inks

Richard Case (credited)

Colors

Paul Mounts (credited)

Letters

Chris Dickey (credited)

Editing

Michael Stewart (credited as Mike Stewart); Steve Behling (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo); Invisible Woman [Susan Storm Richards] (cameo); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); The Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo)
Captain America [Steve Rogers] (cameo); Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mysterio; Mayday Parker (MC2 - Earth-982) (cameo); She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters] (cameo); Spider-Girl (cameo); Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]; Thor [Thor Odinson] (cameo); Wolverine [Logan] (cameo); Wonder Man [Simon Williams] (cameo); Sam Exmore; Toni Harris; Zane Whelan; Bob Lefferts

Indexer Notes

Anti-drug insert story.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 0.8 page (report information)

Bullpen Bits #44 (Table of Contents: 4)

Bullpen Bits / comic story / 0.2 page (report information)

Script

Chris Giarrusso

Pencils

Chris Giarrusso

Inks

Chris Giarrusso

Colors

?

Letters

Chris Giarrusso

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Good grief.

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Wolverine [James Howlett]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

The Punisher / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

? (letter responses)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Punisher Crew, Is it true?

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Andrew Gallagher, Michael Lamy, Sebastian Lecours, Lysa Hawkins, Your Man @ Marvel, Jesse Lonergan, Solomon Neisloss, Tim Demeter, and Tony Vaughn.