CREATIVE TEAM
*Mike Baron:  Script
*Erik Larsen:  Pencils
*Al Williamson:  Inks
*Ken Bruzenak:  Letters
*John Wellington:  Colors
*Carl Potts:  Edits
*Tom DeFalco:  Chief

CAST
*Frank Castle AKA The Punisher:  Star of the book.  One time cop who watched as his family was gunned down by the mafia.  Has since claimed a one-man war against crime using whatever means necessary.
*Microchip:  Punisher's right-hand man.  Best hacker he knows.  He's in it for the same reason as Frank.  His family was murdered.
*Shadowmasters:  Manzo, Phillip, and Yuriko.  One time neighbors of Frank Castle's.  Now students under Yakamoto's training.
*The Eternal Sun:  Rival ninja clan of the Yakamoto clan.  Want to bring Japan back to it's old Imperial glory days.
*Hatsu Yakamoto:  Old ninja master of the Yakamoto clan.
*Kathryn Yakamoto:  Daughter of Hatsu Yakamoto.
*Isis Green:  Lester Daniel's one-time secretary, now B.J. Johnson's girlfriend.  Now revealed to be a mercenary who works for an unknown source.  Revealed to be leader of the Eternal Sun Ninja Clan...
*Congressman Hargreaves:  In bed with the Eternal Sun.  Selling them secret American intelligence at low, low prices.

Synopsis:

    After finding out that Iris Green is the head of the Eternal Sun, Phillip and Yuriko, the two Shadowmasters who have faked their way into the Eternal Sun compound, let their cover be exposed and blow half the building.  A fight ensues, and the Eternal Sun building is burnt to the ground, but Isis Green lives on.  The Shadowmasters and the Yakamotos along with Punisher go back to their house to celebrate their victory.
    Later that night, Frank decides to get up, and Hatsu is already waiting for him.  They go outside to talk about Frank's representing the Yakamoto clan in America, and Frank's uneasiness with it.  Then an assassin's arrow strikes down Hatsu.  Frank pinpoints where its at by the sound of the assassin's getaway vehicle, a motorcycle, and fires.  The arrow strikes it's intended target, but Isis Green was along for the ride, and she gets away yet again.
     Frank tells Kathryn and the Shadowmasters what happened to their fallen master/father.  They all want revenge, but the Shadowmasters decide to stay in Japan and fight the Eternal Sun there, while Frank and Kathryn head to America to take care of Isis Green and the corrupt Congressman, Hargreaves.
    They leave to America, and are able to crash a party that the Congressman is throwing.  Isis recognizes Frank, and talks with him about their past encounters.  She tries to pursuade him to change causes, but he refuses, so she tries to kill him.  A fight ensues, and Kathryn gets involved.  The fight leads to the jet room, where giant tanks of jet fuel are at, so the gunfight is kept to a minimum.  Kathryn and Frank escape to a windowed room, wrap themselves in a canvas covering, shoot the jet fuel and allow the building to explode while they get blown out the window unharmed.  Kathryn and Frank go their separate ways and Frank admits that he was starting to fall in love...