This is Nobody Has Any Respect, which is about when characters guest-star in other comic books and, well, they perhaps do not fare that well. Whether it is cases of characters actively mocked in the other book or just characters dismissed oddly when their team-up is over, this feature covers it all! Except if their guest appearance involved them “jobbing” a fight, of course, as that’s a whole other feature. Today, we look at when the Punisher used Spider-Man as a human shield when the wallcrawler had the misfortune of guest-starring in Punisher’s comic book. As I’ve written about before, one of the interesting differences between the world of comic books in the United States and the United Kingdom after World War II is that, following the war, the British government banned the direct importation of American comic books. Therefore, British comic books developed in their own unique fashion during the 1950s, so that when the ban ended and a number of Marvel and DC reprints flooded into the United Kingdom and became quite popular, there was still a different market for action comic books that was a bit more diverse than the American market (not that American comics didn’t have plenty of war comics themselves, of course, it just wasn’t quite as significant of a market share), which also helped lead to the success of the 2000 AD series.At the end of the 1990s, the Punisher was in pretty dire straights as a character. He had gone from having three ongoing monthly titles to not even having a SINGLE ongoing title. In the late 1990s, when Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti’s Event Comics cut a deal with Marvel to have its own imprint at Marvel called Marvel Knights, where it would do new takes on Marvel characters (while still being set in the Marvel Universe, as opposed to the similar deal that Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld had been given a couple of years earlier that became Heroes Reborn that was in its own distinctive universe), the Punisher was one of the characters that it was given control over. The initial Marvel Knights approach to the Punisher was certainly interesting, but the idea of the Punisher dying and become a supernatural avenging angel never really landed.
This is Nobody Has Any Respect, which is about when characters guest-star in other comic books and, well, they perhaps do not fare that well. Whether it is cases of characters actively mocked in the other book or just characters dismissed oddly when their team-up is over, this feature covers it all! Except if their guest appearance involved them “jobbing” a fight, of course, as that’s a whole other feature. Today, we look at when the Punisher used Spider-Man as a human shield when the wallcrawler had the misfortune of guest-starring in Punisher’s comic book.
As I’ve written about before, one of the interesting differences between the world of comic books in the United States and the United Kingdom after World War II is that, following the war, the British government banned the direct importation of American comic books. Therefore, British comic books developed in their own unique fashion during the 1950s, so that when the ban ended and a number of Marvel and DC reprints flooded into the United Kingdom and became quite popular, there was still a different market for action comic books that was a bit more diverse than the American market (not that American comics didn’t have plenty of war comics themselves, of course, it just wasn’t quite as significant of a market share), which also helped lead to the success of the 2000 AD series.
At the end of the 1990s, the Punisher was in pretty dire straights as a character. He had gone from having three ongoing monthly titles to not even having a SINGLE ongoing title. In the late 1990s, when Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti’s Event Comics cut a deal with Marvel to have its own imprint at Marvel called Marvel Knights, where it would do new takes on Marvel characters (while still being set in the Marvel Universe, as opposed to the similar deal that Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld had been given a couple of years earlier that became Heroes Reborn that was in its own distinctive universe), the Punisher was one of the characters that it was given control over. The initial Marvel Knights approach to the Punisher was certainly interesting, but the idea of the Punisher dying and become a supernatural avenging angel never really landed.
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