—Frank CastleYou're sending us in with a bunch of mercenaries?
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Punisher (Frank Castle) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Agent Ortiz (Gets suspended)
- Unnamed Chief (First appearance)
- United States Marine Corps (Only in flashback)
- Olaf (Only in flashback)
- O'Neal (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
- Condor PMC (Name revealed) (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed members (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Unnamed militants (Only appearance; death) (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Mrs. Henderson (Photo)
- Agent Henderson (Photo)
- Howard Viant (Named only)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America
- United States of America
- Connecticut
- Rocky Hill
- D.E.A. Office
- Exeter Asylum (Wreckage, ruins, debris, fragments)
- Rocky Hill
- Connecticut
- United States of America
- "The Desert" (Only in flashback)
- North America
- Hell (Mentioned)
Items:
Synopsis for 1st story
The D.E.A. sent Ortiz on mandatory leave although she insisted that she was close to taking down Condor although that she was still missing Frank Castle.
During Frank's time in the marines, Olaf brought in men from Condor to assist him on a mission to kill a target but a marine named O'Neal was shot dead by a boy who was trying to defend his mother. As a result, he was also killed and when the mother reached for a gun, she was also shot dead by Olaf. Frank argued with Olaf, who justified the kill as part of war.
In the present, Ortiz visited a graveyard outside of Exeter Asylum, looked at a photo of herself with Henderson, and left a box of ammo on a tombstone in case the Punisher was still alive and out there. Later, the Punisher emerged from the ground in the cemetery.
Solicit Synopsis
SEMPER FIDELIS
• An EXPLOSIVE dispatch from the war zone that is the Punisher's past!
• Where would Frank be without Olaf? Chasing Condor in New York, or a grave in Arlington?
• How the marine and his commander parted ways, revealed for the first time!