Issue(s): Punisher #52
Cover Date: Sep 91
Title: "Lupe"
Credits:
Mike Baron - Writer
Paul Guinan - Penciler
Jimmy Palmiotti - Inker
Kevin Kobasic - Assistant Editor
Don Daley - Editor

Review/plot:
This issue's topic ripped from the headlines is illegal adoption. A woman kills young mothers and then sells their babies to more well-to-do families.

The best sequence is this one. Here's the killer/kidnapper, Lupe, chasing a young mother. Notice the guy sitting on the stoop.

That guy goes and gets a gun, and tries to stop Lupe. He gets shot in return, and Lupe gets away.

But the great part is when the Punisher shows up later and give him a thousand bucks and thinks to himself how the guy restores his faith in humanity.

Anyway, Punisher tracks down Lupe, gets into a fistfight with her, and eventually lets her drop off a building. He restores the two children that Lupe kidnaps in this issue to their surviving biological parents, which in one case means a guy that is working his way off crack. He gets $1,000 too.

The mother of the other baby that was kidnapped gets $15,000. I don't know exactly how the Punisher Reward Program works. Seems kind of arbitrary to me. Where do i register a complaint?

Quality Rating: B

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A