Marvel Comics has announced Punisher vs. Spider-Man, a new five-issue series that will go back to the title characters’ early days following their first meeting in 1974’s Amazing Spider-Man #129 (which was also the first appearance of Punisher). Writer Dan Abnett and artist Matteo Della Fonte are the creative team for the story, which kicks off with the pair grudgingly working together to help an ally of Frank Castle. The first issue will be released on July 15, 2026, with a main cover by Jonas Scharf and a variant by Netho Diaz.
“I’m very happy to be writing these two characters in a head-to-head together, and to be revisiting the Punisher, a character I haven’t written since Year One in the nineties,” Abnett said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “The series is a whole lot of fun and full of big action, and some genuine surprises as they learn stuff about each other for the first time. That’s the real joy of going back to this pivotal early point in continuity: there’s a freshness in their encounters and interactions that I think readers are really going to get a kick out of.”
Marvel’s Punisher: One Last Kill is set to stream on Disney+ starting on May 12 (see “‘The Punisher’ Trailer”).
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