—PunisherI can't thank you enough for your hospitality. Are you sure you're safe out here all alone?
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Ethel Bradford (Name revealed) (Death)
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Unnamed Chief
- Agent Ortiz (Suspended)
- Unnamed agents
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- U.S. Army (Mentioned)
- U.S.M.C. Special Forces (Mentioned)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- U.S. Navy (Mentioned)
- Veronica (Olaf's wife) (First appearance; behind the scenes) (Unnamed)
- Connecticut State Police
- Jim Bradford (First appearance; vision or hallucination)
Races and Species:
Realities:
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Connecticut
- Hartford (Mentioned)
- Connecticut
- North Pole (Mentioned)
- Canada
- Newfoundland
- Shelley
- Newfoundland
- United States of America
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
- Punisher's Suit
- EMC (Behind the scenes)
Vehicles:
- U.S.S. Nautilus (Mentioned)
Synopsis for 1st story
Ethel Bradford lowered her shotgun, let the Punisher into her home, treated his wound, and allowed him to stay in exchange for doing work there. Meanwhile, Olaf and the Condor leader learned that Face had hijacked a bus and the leader reprimanded Olaf for not handling things discretely and dismissed him from his office. While working, the Punisher examined a Harley-Davidson that belonged to Ethel's late husband Jim. Olaf and two Condor members who fought alongside Frank in the desert came to the bar and learned from the bartender that he ran off into the woods.
Police officers opened fire on the bus hijacked by Face, causing it to burst into flames and crash. Ortiz arrived at the scene and her assistance was rejected by the Chief, although she attempted to talk to the survivors of the crash inside of the ambulance only to find them killed by Face, who survived and drove off. The Punisher got Jim's bike running again while Olaf and the two Condor members observed him and Ethel. One member tripped on a wire on the way to the house and was injured in an explosion while the other jumped onto the motorcycle, which the Punisher and Ethel were riding, and he was stabbed in the neck.
When he woke up, the Punisher tied him to a tree, opened up his guts, and threatened to feed him to a bear before he learned that Condor Headquarters was in Shelley, Newfoundland. Afterwards, the Punisher still allowed the bear to eat the Condor member.
Solicit Synopsis
OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS…
• Frank gets help from an unlikely source.
• But trouble’s not far behind!
• If you go out in the woods today, you’re sure for a big surprise…