Random Happenstance

This would have been right after the "Suicide Run" crossover with the other Punisher titles, and why not come back to Big John Buscema doing his thing? I don't know why he didn't do the covers too, though. From 1994, Punisher War Zone #26, "Pirates" Written by Chuck Dixon, art by John Buscema. Cover by Rafael Kayanan.

Frank's looking for a gunrunner in Florida, in what appears to be a casual, maybe easy-breathing lounge version of his skull t-shirt. After a couple murders, he makes his way to scenic Puerto Dulce, disguised as a mobster he waxed in front of his girl. Frank barely gets off the plane before getting into a shootout, but manages to fight his way to a pickup by the local boss...whose sister was with the dead mobster, and knows Frank isn't him! Pretty sure she doesn't want her brother to know where she was or what she was doing, but she seems content to let Frank sweat first.

Plotwise that's a little slight, but Buscema sells the hell out of it. This story would run to PWZ #30; and was about the same time as Dixon and Buscema's prestige format Punisher western A Man Named Frank.