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Issue: The Punisher #4

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Publication Date: November 1987

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Issues: #4 of 104 Issues (255 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics

On Sale Date: 1987

Volume: 2

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07148602860411

Price: $0.95 CAD
$0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

2 The Punisher #4 [Direct]

The Punisher #4 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (5 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime, superhero

Character(s): Lagodney

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Pages: 1

The Rev

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: crime, superhero

Character(s): Ray White; Vickie White; Reverend Sammy Smith (villain); Byron Gresham (villain); Keena (villain); Lagodney (villain)

Synopsis: The Punisher has Microchip provide him with a false background so he can infiltrate the Church of the Saved, a cult headed by enigmatic and magnetic leader, Reverend Sammy Smith. When the Punisher is sent out with Smith's men to take incriminating evidence from a crazed reporter, Punisher is shot in the chest and comes close to dying. Reverend Smith uses mysterious powers to heal Frank. The Punisher obtains the videotape that Smith was after and discovers that it contains evidence that the good reverend is a coldblooded murderer.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 22

Notes: Although later comics firmly established Microchip's name as Linus Leiberman, in this, his first appearance, his name is given as Lowell Bartholomew Ori; The story also states that Microchip has been working with the Punisher for 10 years as of the events of this issue.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ? (responses)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Until just recently I was your average Marvel fan.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from: H. Hedley, C. Carl DuBois, Dante Rudnik, John Speer Voskamp, Bill Craig, and Don Kelly. Next issue box.

Sure Shot Savings!

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: Are you aiming high?

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Pages: 1

Notes: Marvel subscription ad.
On last interior page.

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In-house Column on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (caricatures)

Inker(s): ? (caricatures)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Tom DeFalco (caricature); Mark Gruenwald (caricature)

First Line: Petey, Pig 'o My Heart! Marry me!

Synopsis: Bulletins announces that Jim Shooter is stepping down as editor-in-chief and Tom DeFalco will be his replacement.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Announcement; Pro File (Mark Gruenwald); Checklist.
On inside back cover.