WHAT IF #10 What if the Punisher's family hadn't been killed (1990) by Doug Murray, Rik Levins and Bob McLeod
Sunday, 21. May 2006, 04:26:54
I never would have found this particular comic and made the connection that was made, but John McDonagh in his Earth-886 Timeline which chronicles the comic book adaptations of Marvel comic characters in movies and he mentions that there are similarities between the Dolph Lundgren movie and this issue.The story starts in an alternate universe where Frank Castle and his wife and two children are on a picnic in Central Park. In regular Marvel universe, the family stumbles on a mob hit and except for Frank are all killed. In this universe, it starts raining and the family leave the park avoiding the mob hit. The family lives happily for a period and retired marine Frank Castle joins the police force.
Castle discovers corruption in the police force and sets out to expose it. The corrupt police aren't about to let this happen and bomb the Castle house killing everyone except Frank (a relative is visiting and his body is assumed to be Frank's)
We see Frank take out corrupt police officers and judges dressed in an all black outfit (very similar to what The Executioner wears) and release his findings on corruption to the press. It is only on the final pages the we see Castle with a skull on his chest (inpired by his son's Captain Punisher halloween costume seen earlier) and call himself the Punisher.
This story does serve as a kinda origin for the 1989 Punisher movie.
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