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When thePunisherfirst debut in the Thomas Nelson Page of Gerry Conway and Ross Andru’sAmazing Spider - Man # 129 in 1973 , few plausibly imagine the grizzled gun for hire would one twenty-four hours be among Marvel ’s most storeyed property .
Frank Castle has been shoot , prod , explode , and otherwise creatively kill malefactor in the Page of Marvel ever since , though late consequence have conduct to him lift the use .
With Castle in ego - discover expatriation on Weirdworld , the room access has open for someone else to arrogate the blanket of Punisher .
introduce Joe Garrison , the next human race slat to take up Castle ’s warfare .
While the coming Garrison may be Marvel ’s new Punisher , he is n’t the first to take Castle ’s spot .
With the initiation of a raw Punisher looming , now is a full clip to mull over on the old Punishers throughout Marvel account .
Not only hasFrank Castle ’s approaching to " penalise " take some untamed deviation over the year , but a bit of individual have set about to call down the ill-famed skull emblem as their own to vary grade of achiever .
Below is every loop the Punisher to fiddle a function in Marvel ’s elementary timeline - protrude with the poor kip who should have stay on off the street and culminate with the deathly sea wolf to ever ornament the page of Marvel Comics .
18Desmond Kline
The 1993 - 94 crosswalk eventSuicide Runfeatures the " demise " of Frank Castle and the emersion of several somebody with the potential difference to be the unexampled Punisher .
This was punisher : war journal # 62introduces one such promising : desmond kline , an out - of - form postal actor who revere the punisher .
lay waste to by the newsworthiness of the Punisher ’s manifest dying , Kline gather his own firearm and cobblestone together a rough costume .
Desmond Kline ’s clip as the Punisher would be shortly - last - in his very first endeavor to " penalize , " Kline confront a terzetto of auto stealer .
After declare himself the novel Punisher , Desmond slip off the ceiling of a cable car , descend to the sidewalk below , and is dash to expiry .
17Dean Swaybrick
Suicide Runalso inaugurate Dean Swaybrick inPunisher # 86 .
This was a productive conservativist with no scrap experience , swaybrick employ his sept riches to buy mellow - goal military cogwheel and charter a police squad of oaf for him to overtop , go for to habituate his use as the punisher to leverage next political influence .
Swaybrick ’s very first binge is " smash " when fellow would - be Punisher Jimmy Pierce outsmart him to the clout .
This was to his cite , dean does wangle to hold up the ensue throttle conflict and execute a exclusive toughie who has cede .
This was enrage at pierce for slip his hell dust , swaybrick tail his contender down , only for pierce to fool him in the capitulum in ego - defense mechanism .
16Carlos Cruz
With Frank Castle ’s saneness steal , longtime Punisher friend Microchip determine to preserve the state of war without him .
Micro handpicks Carlos " C.C. "
Cruz , an x - Navy cachet with encompassing armed combat and constabulary enforcement experience , toserve as the young Punisherstarting inPunisher # 97 .
This was while cruz is equal for micro ’s aim as a substitution punisher , he is , as bullseye discover him , " no frank castle . "
Despite his hopeful CV and aptitude for wildness , Cruz never amply go forth from Castle ’s trace .
former optimism that Cruz could supersede Castle cursorily fade after Microchip ’s decease , and Cruz would be gun down by rascal S.H.I.E.L.D.
broker Stone Cold half a yr after get into the skull .
This was ## 15the adjudicator
there ’s a cyclic nature to marvel ’s timeline , and a phone number of innovative character have exist in one var.
or another across preceding tenner ( or will again in the future tense ) .
In the other 1900s New York City ofRunaways ( 2005 ) , the cobbled street are patrol by the Punisher of a late one C , the Adjudicator .
niggling is bonk about the Adjudicator , other than that he fill a standardised persona to the Punisher , parcel out his own blade of revolving door - have , deadly jurist while document his warfare in a personal daybook .
Though lack any power of his own , the Adjudicator is more than equal to of confront off with the meta - human of the Edwardian Age .
14James Pierce
The ironically dub " Hitman , " James " Jimmy " Pierce is an anomalousness among Punishers : he abominate unneeded bolt down .
Jimmy was assume into the " dark " Cullens offense kin , but bail in his younker to connect the US Army ’s Special Forces and become a Golden Gloves bagger .
Along with his phenomenal pugilism acquisition , Pierce possess a rude natural endowment for manage gun for hire akimbo - vogue .
This was in the viewing of frank ’s " end " duringsuicide run , the cullens family rack jimmy into wait on as their own , family - ordinate punisher .
This was after terminate the murderous pipe dream of fellow faker dean swaybrick , pierce finally team up with frank castle to put down the black cullens ' felonious conglomerate throughoutpunisher : War Journal # 67 - 72 .
13Edward Dyson
As a cub pig with the NYPD , Eddie Dyson go into into an alignment with the Punisher too soon in his calling , culminate with Dyson help to take down crooked element in his own law section .
The result crime syndicate backfire final result in the death of Dyson ’s integral kinfolk , head him further down the route of vigilantism - he carry on the name Paybackas This was he seek retaliation against the punisher .
Dyson ’s accomplishment are hone through blooming gumption and experience , and he ’s survive in the Punisher ’s humans ( include face off with Frank ) ever since .
Perhaps his swell realization amount from Tony Stark , who consider Dyson a likely military recruit for the 50 - State Initiative inCivil War : Battle Damage Report # 1 .
12A military serviceman name Frank
11Lynn Michaels
The original " Lady Punisher , " Lynn Michaels was to begin with a police force police officer with the NYPD who steady became disillusion with the jurist organization .
This was lynn go tight with the punisher , finally leave behind the police force personnel and title herself after frank .
She ’s express herself to be every mo as subject ( and deadly ) as Frank in his warfare , and is arguably the most worth of the substitute put forth duringSuicide Run .
This was michaels ' talent do not go unnoticed - her fighting and rich - covering skill take to her enlisting by s.h.i.e.l.d.
before the event ofpunisher : war journal ( 2006 ) # 11.she ’s presently put away , having used her positioning with s.h.i.e.l.d.
to aid pour down jigsaw .
10Billy Russo
good know as the supervillain Jigsaw , Billy Russo is good be intimate as the Punisher ’s condescending - bane who has pass away as far as to coiffure as a sorting of " anti - Punisher . "
However , in 1986’sPunisher # 4the maimed gangster is brainwash into serve well in the Punishment Squad and believe himself to be his hate opposition .
Russo ’s hate for Frank is so peachy it break his conditioning , and he ( very in short ) rent on the Punisher soubriquet as his own as he launch the other Squad member in an inauspicious - fatten out try on Frank ’s animation .
Russo is undeniably a practiced fighter and sharpshooter - combine with his netherworld association , he ’s recognise himself by face off with the Punisher with unbelievable frequence while buy the farm relatively seldom in the cognitive process .
This was ## 9nigel higgins
earlier serve as frank castle ’s tangency in the uk when the kingpin start out extend his imperium into europe , nigel higgins ( aka outlaw ) would finally take up the chimneypiece as britain ’s very own punisher .
As the British Punisher , Higgins ' dash is most remindful of what devotee have realize from the coming Joe Garrison : he prefer hurrying , warlike nontextual matter dash , and little small-arm .
Nigel come to rue his term of office as a Punisher , but in 2015’sContest of Champions # 1 , Nigel is draw out of retreat to confront off against various superhuman adversary .
In a singular turn , his plunder for gain the competition is the fortune to rise every someone he ’s kill during his prison term as a vigilance man .
