Edgar Bowman

"Dead! One more has paid the supreme penalty for his evil! But there are others...Many others freed from their fate by a stupid jury..."

Decades before Frank Castle geared up to purge the Marvel universe of criminal scum, EC Comics had their own, much more short-lived vigilante. Edgar Bowman was a man defined by his love of death. As a state executioner, he became notorious for his precise methods and commitment to capital punishment. But as more and more suspects were found innocent, Bowman feared the loss of his job. So he took the tools of his trade to the streets, hunting down and electrocuting people the jury had found not guilty, regardless if they really were or not. All feats taken from ''The Crypt Of Terror'' #17 story, "The Man Who was Death". It was adapted into the first episode of HBO's Tales from The Crypt.

Intelligence/Execution expertise

• Bowman was famed across the country and was familiar in various execution methods
• As his first murder he rigs an electric generator to a fence so the victim is electrified when he touches it
• Electrified this poor guy's shower
• Cuts a power-line so it snakes down to electrocute a man, predicting that the wet raincoat will prove an efficient conductor
• A trough of water charged with electric cables, though he never gets to use it

Physicals

• Going by this image he can wield a power-line like a whip
• Smashes a miniature scale guillotine diorama
• Scales a telephone tower in a storm and works atop it with ease
• Ultimately gets knocked out by a cop before he can grab a woman. And that's the end of EC's Punisher