Punisher: Red Band #1
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Punisher: Red Band #1

Writer: Ben Percy Artist: Julius Ohta, Yen Nitro Publisher: Marvel Comics Release Date: September 10, 2025 Critic Reviews: 4 User Reviews: 3
8.9Critic Rating
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FRANK IS BACK! Reread and reload, True Believers — Frank Castle is BACK. With no memories, a full clip and a thirst for wrathful vengeance, his violent search for answers could only be chronicled in a Red Band series! Bullets will fly, blood will flow, and the citizens and criminals of New York City alike will fear the name THE PUNISHER! From the superstar HELLVERINE creative team of Benjamin Percy and Julius Ohta, don’t miss a single pulse-pounding page of this explosive new series!

  • 9.0
    AIPT - David Brooke Sep 10, 2025

    Punisher #1 is a searing, unforgettable return for Frank Castle, pairing Benjamin Percy's unflinching storytelling with Julius Ohta and Yen Nitro's brutal yet beautiful visuals. With Red Band gore that shocks in just the right way, mafia intrigue that layers in tension, and a surprising new ally, this debut reintroduces Punisher, and it reclaims him as one of Marvel's most dangerous icons. Read Full Review

  • 9.0
    ComicsOnline - Kevin Gaussoin Sep 10, 2025

    Punisher: Red Band #1 sets the stage for a new era of Punisher stories that demand attention. It is violent, uncompromising, and impossible to put down. Read Full Review

  • 9.0
    But Why Tho? - William Tucker Sep 10, 2025

    Punisher Red Band Issue 1 brings the main man back where he belongs - in a world filled with blood and gore. Read Full Review

  • 8.4
    Comic Watch - Matt Meyer Sep 10, 2025

    Punisher: Red Band #1 is the start of what looks to be a great Punisher story. The creative team is locked in, and clearly understands the assignment. Between this and next month'sPunisher: The World to Come miniseries, it's a good time to be a Punisher fan. Read Full Review

  • 10
    Dave DSG Sep 11, 2025

    Plot
    This new series begins with Frank Castle waking up covered in blood on a burning boat filled with slaughtered people. Without knowing his name or what's happening, he escapes from the police by swimming, even though he's seriously injured.

    Meanwhile, Tombstone tortures police officers and others to get them to tell him who was responsible for the attack on his boat carrying expensive illegal merchandise. Tombstone tortures them by cutting off parts of their bodies, but no one knows what happened.

    The Kingpin, on the other hand, is behind all the criminal activities that aren't his own, threatening a priest who engaged in human trafficking.

    The Punisher is rescued by an elderly woman whom he asks to more

  • 1.0
    sad comics Sep 10, 2025

    Completely dispensable and unable to keep up, we know what happens next: the character's mind is messed up since a deconstruction run, and then the bloodthirsty villains will take advantage of this to turn him into a villain under the false pretense of bringing him back with his original symbol, all aimed at serving a progressive agenda. It's definitely not the Punisher who should be rebooted; Marvel doesn't have the guts for that... Without ENNIS, there won't be a Punisher for now, simple as that! Red Band is a label that only aims to strengthen the woke; there's nothing violent about it.

    Hulk, Punisher, Spidey all Rip with Stan Lee.

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    ICanDoItToo Sep 11, 2025

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