Following an inter-office shake-up in late 1994,
Tom DeFalco was removed as Marvel's Editor-in-Chief. Rather than name a successor, Marvel appointed five "Editors-in-Chief", each of whom would oversee a certain number of titles and, by extension, a certain portion of the
Marvel Universe. This change was reflected externally by collecting all Marvel monthlies into broad groups: the
X-Men titles, the
Spider-Man titles, and three new imprints, one of them being Marvel Edge, which was overseen by
Bobbie Chase. The imprint was launched with the storyline "Over the Edge" (beginning in comics cover-dated September 1995) in which the
Punisher went temporarily insane. He became convinced
Nick Fury and
S.H.I.E.L.D. were responsible for the death of his family, and pursued Fury through various titles which would form the core of the imprint, finally killing him. This led to a relaunch of the
Punisher title, where the Mafia faked
Frank Castle's execution and recruited him as a mob boss. The Marvel Edge imprint was discontinued after all comics were published with a cover-date of April 1996. == Marvel Edge titles ==