As well as sharing the big screen in the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Peter Parker and Frank Castle are set to talk a walk down memory lane this summer with the five-issue limited series Punisher vs. Spider-Man from writer Dan Abnett and artist Matteo Della Fonte.
The series will take place shortly after The Punisher’s comic book debut in Amazing Spider-Man #129 and details some of the duo’s earliest encounters as they set aside their differences for the greater good, only to inevitably turn on each other once again.
“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,” explains Abnett. “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.”
THE PUNISHER AND SPIDER-MAN, two of the most notorious names in New York City with very different approaches to making the Big Apple safer (or not, depending on who you ask!). Brought together by happenstance and forced to stay that way by an ally from Frank Castle’s past in need, will the web-slinger and the gunslinger be able to begrudgingly set aside their differences before they find themselves at one another’s throats?!
Check out the main cover to Punisher vs. Spider-Man #1 from artist Jonas Scharf below, along with a variant cover from Netho Diaz and some first-look interior pages from Matteo Della Fonte…
Punisher vs. Spider-Man #1 will go on sale on July 15th 2026.
