Punisher (Lynn Michaels)

Lynn Michaels was an officer with the NYPD. When jogging through Central Park, Lynn was attacked by an armed serial mugger/rapist. Punisher and Michaels then teamed up to apprehend the criminal. From then on the two would call on each other a number of times.

Upon being attacked by the armed criminal, Punisher tackled him and fought him off but confused and shocked, Lynn pulled her sidearm on Punisher, allowing the criminal to get away. Explaining his intentions and that he'd been hunting the criminal, Lynn agreed to team up with Punisher and apprehend him together. Identifying the armed criminal through the fingerprints he left on his own bullet shell casings, they tracked him down to his apartment, but after an exchange of gunfire, he escaped and ran for a passing train. Punisher jumped the train also but Lynn was left behind. Due to the scene at Central Park however, Lynn was identified as having worked with the Punisher by an onlooker and the assassin, Stiletto, followed Lynn back to her own apartment, hoping to find the Punisher through her.

Punisher, at the time having killed the mugger/rapist and two more assassins, went back to Lynn to see to his own wounds. While there, Stiletto, who had crept in and hidden in the dark, attacked and stabbed Lynn in the shoulder and Punisher shot him dead in retaliation. Lynn planted a kiss on him as thanks for saving her life. Lynn Michaels crossed over to Punisher War Journal in issue #57 when Punisher called for her help in solving the "Vampire Killings" case, where she would this time save his life.

After becoming disgusted with the legal process when evidence against child killer Charles Dirkin was ruled inadmissable, she quit the force and went her own way. Shortly after, when Dirkin was imprisoned, Lynn sent him a package of cigarettes. When he went to his cell window to smoke, she killed him with a sniper rifle, having taken up the role of the Punisher.

Lynn Michaels was a trained law enforcement officer. Lynn was familiar with police procedures and methods. She is highly skilled in various forms of unarmed combat, proficient with firearms, and a talented sharpshooter. She wore Kevlar body armor.