The Punisher
#17
[Newsstand]
(March 1989)
Marvel,
1987 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1988-11-15
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Barcode
- 071486028604 03
- Editing
- Carl Potts (editor); Marc McLaurin (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of The Punisher (Marvel, 1987 series) #17.
[no title indexed]
Punisher / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Whilce Portacio (signed)
- Inks
- Scott Williams (signed as Williams)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero; crime
- Characters
- Vernon Brooks; Conchita Ortiz; Punisher [Frank Castle]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Un Récit Complet Marvel (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #26 - Echec au Caïd ([mai] 1990) [[Légèrement modifiée [Slightly edited]] which is reprinted - in Titans (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #135 (10 avril 1990)
-
in The Punisher Magazine (Marvel, 1989 series) #12 (July 1990) -
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #105 -
in The Punisher (Egmont Ehapa, 1991 series) #5 - Tod dem Punisher! ([März] 1993) - in Punisher Epic Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #3 - Kingpin Rules (2019), #3 - Kingpin Rules (2019), #3 - Kingpin Rules (2019) [recolored; new trade dress]
-
![Cover Thumbnail for The Punisher (Marvel, 1987 series) #17 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1413/w200/1413806.jpg?-1794363562250548602)
Computer War
Punisher / comic story / 21 pages
- Script
- Mike Baron (credited)
- Pencils
- Whilce Portacio (credited) (layouts)
- Inks
- Scott Williams (credited) (finishes)
- Colors
- JayJay Jackson (credited as Janet Jackson)
- Letters
- Ken Bruzenak (credited)
- Genre
- superhero; crime
- Characters
- Board [Jeremy Wilson] (villain); Vernon Brooks; Kingpin [Wilson Fisk] (villain); Microchip [David Lieberman]; Conchita Ortiz (death); Punisher [Frank Castle]; George Wong (villain) (first appearance); Mr. Lem (villain, first appearance, death); Mr. Wong (villain, first appearance)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The Punisher has to destroy his battle van to get away from Kingpin's battle tank. Kingpin hires Mr. Wong and his nephew, George, to crunch his numbers while his computer is down and they bring along an assassin to deal with the Punisher as well. Lem infiltrates Punisher's house and kills Conchita before the Punisher can take him down.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Punishing Mails / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Marc McLaurin
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This issue we continue to print your suggestions for an actor to play the part of the Punisher…
- Synopsis
- Marc McLaurin announces Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle in the new Punisher movie, responds to readers' letters, and alerts readers of Punisher creators visiting local comic stores.
Indexer Notes
Letters from Chris Barton, Roger Greene, Jonathan Steckelberg, Kevin J. Frey, and Bill Mancuso.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Punisher -
1.
Computer War
Punisher -
2.
["So maybe it's not as classy as a silver bullet!"]
Bullpen Bulletins; ProFile -
3.
["This issue we continue to print your suggestions for an actor to play the part of the Punisher…"]
Punishing Mails
This issue was modified by
- Lionel Majot
- Vlad R.
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.