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Issue: The Punisher Magazine #5
Publication Date: December 1989
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.00 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$2.25 USD
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Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Carl Potts (Editor); Don Daley (Reprint Editor); Tom DeFalco (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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adventure, superhero
The Punisher
The Punisher
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Contents

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The Punisher
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False Faith Part One: The Rev

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Subject Matter
adventure, superhero
The Punisher
The Punisher; Microchip (guest, first appearance); Microchip Junior (guest, first appearance); Ray White (guest); Vickie White (guest); Reverend Sammy Smith (villain); Byron Gresham (villain); Keena (villain); Lagodney (villain)
The Punisher has Microchip provide him with a false background so he can infiltrate the Church of the Saved, a cult headed by enigmatic and magnetic leader, Reverend Sammy Smith. When the Punisher is sent out with Smith's men to take incriminating evidence from a crazed reporter, Punisher is shot in the chest and comes close to dying. Reverend Smith uses mysterious powers to heal Frank. The Punisher obtains the videotape that Smith was after and discovers that it contains evidence that the good reverend is a cold blooded murderer.
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The Punisher
The Punisher
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False Faith Part Two: Ministry of Death

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Subject Matter
adventure, superhero
The Punisher
The Punisher; Ray White (guest); Vickie White (guest); Reverend Sammy Smith (villain); Sadie Smith (villain); Byron Gresham (villain); Keena (villain)
The Punisher accompanies Reverend Sammy Smith to his cult compound in Guiana and meets his sister who also has mysterious powers. When Frank learns that Smith is planning on having his followers drink cyanide rather than face infiltration by U.S. government agents, he takes out the paranoid reverend and his crazy sister.
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