Punisher: The Prize

The Punisher: One-Shots

by C.J. Henderson, Mike Harris (Artist)

While on a stakeout, Frank Castle learns that a volatile weapon will be up for grabs on the Black Market. Punisher teams with an American journalist to blow the lid on this story, but they’re inadvertently pulled into a criminal underbelly of thieves, cutthroats and stone cold killers.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

There is more than one author with this name

CJ Henderson is the creator of both the Jack Hagee hardboiled PI series and the Teddy London supernatural detective series. He is also the author of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies, several score novels, plus hundreds of short stories and thousands of non-fiction pieces. In the wonderful world of comics he has written everything from Batman and the Punisher to Archie and Cherry Poptart.

He also writes under the name Robert Morgan.

Reviews

[Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5

While I appreciate Henderson's attempt to address Frank's internal struggles about his war on organized crime, I feel he doesn't really go anywhere with it in the end. It's in a constant tug-of-war for supremacy for the main plot, which involves some kind of superweapon stolen from an underground auction the year prior. Both plots are fine, but the less interesting one ultimately overshadowed the other.

Harris's artwork is fluid, sometimes a little too fluid, but it serves the story well. I wasn't wild about the character designs all the time, but he renders the action competently.

A slightly above-average Punisher graphic novel, but one that doesn't achieve all it sets out to do. Points for trying.

[Brannigan · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of the slower Punisher tales I’ve read. The art isn’t great, pretty messy. It’s a hard pass.