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For those of you who are not familiar with the character, the Punisher debuted in a Marvel comic book series in the 1970s. Heâs a real bad-ass who rights wrongs, delivering vigilante justice. A movie by the same name had just come out; the Punisher wore a shirt with a stylized white skull.
Sign In. The Punisher is one of Marvel's more violent comics characters but has seen the big screen three times with little to no box office success. First in 1989 with Dolph Lundgren, next in 2004 with Thomas Jane, and then in 2008 with Ray Stevenson. The comics storyline tells of Frank Castle, a former Special Forces operative, who witnesses his family murdered by the mob.