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    Character » Punisher appears in 2803 issues.

    When U.S. Marine veteran Frank Castle's family's was murdered for witnessing a mob hit, the man vowed to avenge their deaths and became a one-man army in his personal war against the criminal underworld. With a distinct death's head skull adorning his chest, Frank Castle became the vigilante known as the Punisher.

    Did you like The Punisher as a kid?

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    #1  Edited By deactivated-5af7470263a09

    The first time i ever seen  The Punisher, Spiderman had webbed up his scope. I think a lot of us remember this as the infamous cutscene from the original and best PS1 Spiderman game.  
    I was intrigued by that skull. And the atitude. And the gun. Something that no one else carried.  Me and my buddy were playing through the game, and the same thought crossed our tiny nine year old minds- Who was this guy?
     
    The Punisher was a killer, i knew that right away. I seen the Tom Jane movie when i was 13, and i thought it was cool, but the first time i ever knew it was love was when i played The Punisher on ps2. I think we all remember that piece of vicious brilliance. We all remember sticking that dudes head in the cieling fan, and feeding him to the shark down the pier. (I still play it like a religion). We all love Garth Ennis' work, and we all hang our heads in shame at the merest mention of Frankencastle. 
     
    But what i want to know what was your first introduction to Mr. Castle, and what made you love his stories? How old were you when bought that first issue he was in?
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    #2  Edited By longbowhunter

    The first comic I ever bought was a Punisher comic back in like '86 or '87. I wanted a Spider-Man comic, but all I could find was this guy's comic guest starring Spidey. I still remember the first couple of pages. Frank was on a house boat frying bacon and these two guy break in. He whips the bacon grease in one thug's face and takes uses the pan on the other. I've been a Punisher fan for over 20 years now.
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    #3  Edited By deactivated-5af7470263a09
    @longbowhunter:
    Thats cool man. The first issue of the punisher i ever bought was actually a trade paperback from the max series, The slavers.
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    #4  Edited By ZORN

    Yeah, first saw him in my dad's dvd collection, it was that Dolph Lundgren movie, never read any of the comics until like 2006 if I recall correctly.

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    #5  Edited By warlock360

    spiderman animated series, yes i did same goes for blade lol

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    #6  Edited By bringdeath

    the tom jane punisher movie in my 10 year old mind did not know what it was going to  be granted it wasnt anything close to the comic,but still I thought "oh hey,its a marvel movie,SUPERHEROS!" wrong, ever since i have been hooked.

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    #7  Edited By SirSparkington

    I really enjoyed that Tom Jane movie (especially the extended cut). I think the first Punisher book I bought was the Tyger. This was around 2007.

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    #8  Edited By bjmorga

    My older cousin gave me Punisher books to read back when the first ongoing started. I was warped from that point forward.

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    #9  Edited By FadeToBlackBolt

    No (my first experience with him was during the 90s Spider-Man show, where virtually every guest star was insufferable), but I love him now.

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    #10  Edited By Jotham

    Punisher always scared me as a kid. I was firmly in the "being a superhero would be fun" frame of mind, and here was a guy with obsession, guilt, brutality. It was too much for my little psyche to process.

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