In one of our other infamous off topic discussions, I had mentioned owning a Punisher comic book that was based on frank castle in vietnam and that it used a lot of stuff found in "Marine Sniper". At that point (probably 3 months ago) I promised to look for those books and report what issues they were. Well, it was low priority and I never got around to it until Muzzleblast questioned me about it yesterday. So I went down to where all my old comic books are stored and started searching. Amazingly it only took me about 5 minutes to find them (yes, more than one).
So here is the scoop. The books were two issues of "The Nam". I'm not sure how many of you remember that comic book title, but it ran for a good number of years and told stories/events from the Vietnam conflict. The actual titles read:
"The Punisher invades The Nam".
It is issues 52 and 53 of "The Nam".
The story is about a young army sniper named Frank Castle (imagine that). Some higher ups recruit him to take out an elite Vietcong sniper that has been racking up an impressive kill count. Well, throughout the two issues, they tell the 2500 yard .50 cal story, the 3 day stalk story (he's stalking through the field after the other sniper, not a general) and of course the shooting the sniper through the scope, as well as some other minor events found in the book. They changed the story, but used the events. Its actually kind of cool. The story is purely a frank castle comic book story, they just used some of the events from the "Marine Sniper" book to tell the new story.
If you can find the two books, they are cool. I'd be willing to sell mine for about $3000, or trade for a Parker Hale M85 or Sako TRG-42 in .338 LM :wink:
MEL
So here is the scoop. The books were two issues of "The Nam". I'm not sure how many of you remember that comic book title, but it ran for a good number of years and told stories/events from the Vietnam conflict. The actual titles read:
"The Punisher invades The Nam".
It is issues 52 and 53 of "The Nam".
The story is about a young army sniper named Frank Castle (imagine that). Some higher ups recruit him to take out an elite Vietcong sniper that has been racking up an impressive kill count. Well, throughout the two issues, they tell the 2500 yard .50 cal story, the 3 day stalk story (he's stalking through the field after the other sniper, not a general) and of course the shooting the sniper through the scope, as well as some other minor events found in the book. They changed the story, but used the events. Its actually kind of cool. The story is purely a frank castle comic book story, they just used some of the events from the "Marine Sniper" book to tell the new story.
If you can find the two books, they are cool. I'd be willing to sell mine for about $3000, or trade for a Parker Hale M85 or Sako TRG-42 in .338 LM :wink:
MEL