Punisher Batman: Deadly Knights (1994) by Chuck Dixon (Script) John Romita Jnr & Klaus Janson (art) Christie Scheele (coloring)
Tuesday, 21. March 2006, 11:12:02
The second Batman/Punisher crossover is more like it. Gone is Jean-Paul Valley and Bruce Wayne is back in the mantle of the Bat. Interestingly The Punisher doesn't appear to realise that there is a different man behind the cowl, Frank thinks that perhaps Batman is a headcase who changes personality with his costume.
The Joker is more involved and he is backing Jigsaw to take over the gangs of Gotham and arranges for Jigsaw to undergo plastic surgery (only to have the Punisher ruin his face again).
Robin and Microchip get to have a cybershowdown where Robin emerges victorious.
There is a nice contrast between Batman and Punisher who are very similar, both lost their families to crime and both reacted by becoming vigilantes as highlighted by the Joker mentioning that Jigsaw told him about the Punisher's origin and that the Joker thinks that something similar happened to Batman a long time ago, because "the masquerade, the gadgets, he reacted as a child would."
When The Punisher corners The Joker, he is about to shoot and kill The Joker when Batman intervenes and saves the Joker. The Punisher kills criminal, The Batman scares them. The Joker's response to Castle's methods is disbelief.
This is the book to get to see Batman meet the Punisher.
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