Neil Hansen :
This is a double-splash credits page from a short 8-page Punisher story I penciled and inked (written by Dan Slott). It was one of a handful of stories included in the issue of ‹ Punisher Back To School Special #2 ›, published by Marvel in October, 1993. I think they were publishing this title only once per year, after the summer. You know, for back-to-school time. Thank you, Captain Obvious.
This was done during an unstable period of my youth when I was coming and going constantly, moving between cities every few months, going out on hitchhiking adventures for weeks at a time. I wasn’t staying in one place regularly enough to be able to commit to a whole issue or a monthly book, so I was turning down comic book offers and just accepting short story gigs, covers for books drawn by others, and special projects (like Marvel writing paper illos, trading cards, etc). I have copies of a couple of those special projects, but I did a few and I forget most of them. I did not retain the original art to any of those.
This is my only art left from this short Punisher story. But it’s a dynamic shot where he’s looking through a one-way glass window in a police station, to identify a criminal in a line-up. He identifies the perp and blows him away through the glass. I think in real life the police sometimes frown upon that behavior, but hey, it’s The Punisher. Does his own thing and gets the bad guy in perhaps, ahem, slightly less than legal ways occasionally.
