Issue(s): Punisher War Journal #61
Cover Date: Dec 93
Title: "Terminal objectives"
Credits:
Chuck Dixon - Writer
Gary Kwapisz - Penciler
Gary Kwapisz - Inker
Tim Tuohy - Assistant Editor
Don Daley - Editor

Review/plot:
Suicide Run starts for real with this issue. The Punisher wipes out a gang that works for a mob boss named Vito Vaducci, and captures their accountant, who bargains with his life with information about an upcoming big meeting between crimelords that is being organized by a Jackie Dee. Punisher goes to Rosalie Carbone to get more information He actually gets the information from her bodyguard/consort.

Carbone therefore knows to skip the meeting.

The meeting contains a number of crimelords, and a couple of surprises: Rapido and Jigsaw. I also think Marvel forgot they already had a Turk.

The purpose of the meeting is to figure out how to do something about the Punisher. But Jigsaw says he wants nothing to do with it, because he knows the Punisher will find a way to turn it around and kill all of them.

Jackie Dee's plan is for the rest of these crimelords and their lieutenants to have an even bigger meeting in an empty building that Dee owns called the Manhattan Tower.

The FBI are tracking these criminals and become aware of the meeting. And the Punisher is also aware. He works with Micro and Mickey Fondozzi on how to spring the trap. Micro tries to dissuade the Punisher, saying "it's suicide" but of course the Punisher is undaunted.

The Punisher's plan involves Mickey parking a truck outside the Manhattan Tower.

And Micro sending a remote-controlled plane to crash into the building.

Meanwhile, the building has been rigged full of explosives. And the Punisher, who was hidden in the truck, infiltrates the building with a detonator on a dead man's switch.

Meanwhile, Lynn Michaels quits the police over the "failure" to convict the child killer she arrested last year for murder (instead he was "only" put in prison for ten-fifteen years for manslaughter).

The lettercols in some of the Suicide Runs issue run a score box. The score right now is Punisher: 13, Bad guys: 0, VIGIL: 0. (The Punisher's score comes from guards killed on the way to the top of the tower.)

Quality Rating: C+

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: This is part one of Suicide Run. Part two is in Punisher War Zone #23.

References:

• When Micro tries to persuade the Punisher, the Punisher reminds him that Micro's son was killed in Punisher #9. Micro says that he's "over that" and that his son wouldn't want him to kill himself over it.

Crossover: Suicide Run

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A