What if the Punisher had killed Daredevil?

[history79]

9 pages of 28

Comments

[sadoeuphemist]

"Spice Importer Wilson Fisk" is pretty good. Maybe better than the Kingpin.

[lordultimus]

I did find it funny that in almost every What If the Kingpin appeared in, he died.

Hell, Spider-Man dies a lot too, now that I think about it.

[zylly]

I remember this one. Pretty decent story on the whole.

But the way I figure it, if the super-heroes of New York ever really wanted to take down the Punisher, he wouldn't last a week. It's just kind of one of those comic things you have to accept; that certain things that should happen just don't.

[joetuss]

So does Spidey not have any super powers in this?...

[zechs80]

Well that's a very "Mechanic"-like end to this one.

[locuatico]

Funny thing is, didn't later comics mention that Kingpin's control over the city of New York is such that, if brought down, the vacuum power would create a gang wars so chaotic that the heroes would have problem controlling?

[freezer]

"He died a hero."

A heroic suicide bomber!

[starwolf_oakley]

A few stories in the 1980s gave the Kingpin a kind of Joker Immunity from the Punisher. If someone killed Fisk, a super-massive gang war would break out and lots of innocent people would die. That was the only thing stopping the Punisher.

[beyondthefringe]

What If... I loved that series in its prime, but man, it was usually so bleak. Writers always seemed to take out their frustrations by killing characters they'd never be allowed to kill in the real M.U. With Spidey at the top. :)

[reveen]

A tranq pistol? Reminds me of Metal Gear. I'm just gonna assume Frank got it when he served with Diamond Dogs. They year isn't that far off.

[dcbanacek]

Not shown in the scans of the last Punisher/ Spider-Man fight is Frank thinking to himself "All this time, he was taking it easy on me?"

[tcampbell1000]

This was surprisingly not-bad! I mean, Busiek's name makes it less of a surprise, but still. The problems with most "What If" stories are similar to the more severe problems with "Garth Ennis vs. superheroes" stories: rushed storytelling and characters who suddenly, jarringly seem a lot easier to defeat and/or kill than hundreds of other stories have led us to believe.

This story can't escape that effect entirely and still be told in one issue, but it comes pretty damn close. The scene with the mayor is excellent.

[amaniwolf]

I think i prefer the What If? Wolverine was Lord of the Undead, and What if Punisher killed Spiderman. Those two were pretty interesting.

[pwiggins]

Wow, check out Fisk's trollface in that one panel on page 29. Creepy.