* Russian ( comics ), fictional Marvel Comics supervillain from The Punisher series

A famous example of this type of retcon is the television show The Simpsons and Marvel Comics ' characters Nick Fury and The Punisher.

An example in print is Marvel Comics ' the Punisher, also known as Frank Castle.

In June 2004, Corben joined with Garth Ennis to produce The Punisher: The End, a one-shot title for Marvel published under the MAX imprint as part of Marvel's The End series.

Keen-eyed fans may also spot cameos by other familiar Marvel heroes, such as Feral, Rictor, Deadpool, Punisher, War Machine, Ghost Rider, Mimic, Blink, Doctor Strange, Thor and Spiderman.

The show also features appearances from various other Marvel superheroes including the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, Blade, Doctor Strange, the Punisher, and Captain America.

* Witchblade / Punisher one-shot ( Image Comics / Top Cow Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 )

Garth Ennis ( born 16 January 1970 ) is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics ' Punisher franchise.

After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to.

In the 1995 one-shot special Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, Ennis has the Punisher kill every single superhero and supervillain on Earth.

The Boys sees Ennis reunited with artist Darick Robertson, the two had previously worked together on the Marvel series Fury: Peacemaker and Punisher: Born.

The Punisher is a fictional character, an antihero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

I had done that with the Punisher at Marvel.

The Punisher also appeared in numerous one-shots and miniseries, and made frequent guest appearances in other Marvel comics, ranging from superhero series to the Vietnam War-era comic The ' Nam.

In 1995, Marvel canceled all three ongoing Punisher series due to poor sales.

The publisher attempted a re-launch almost immediately, with a new ongoing series Punisher, under the new Marvel Edge imprint, by writer John Ostrander, in which the Punisher willingly joined and became the boss of an organized crime family, and later confronted the X-Men and Nick Fury.

Writer Christopher Golden's four-issue Marvel Knights miniseries The Punisher: Purgatory ( November 1998 – February 1999 ) posited a deceased Punisher resurrected as a supernatural agent of various angels and demons.

A 12-issue miniseries by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, again titled The Punisher ( April 2000 – March 2001 ), under the Marvel Knights imprint, revived the character's popularity.

Punisher also made it explicit that Castle's timeline was fixed, while Marvel adjusted those of its other characters, with his history never altered or moved up in time.

Marvel relaunched The Punisher War Journal in 2009 as simply Punisher, with a thematic link tied to the events of the " Dark Reign " storyline and, following the departure of writer Garth Ennis, retitled the Marvel MAX series ( formerly Punisher MAX ) as Punisher: Frank Castle MAX and, more recently, as Punisher: Frank Castle or Frank Castle: The Punisher ( depending on the source ); launching a new series called PunisherMAX by Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon.

Marvel Knights is also the name of a branch of Marvel's film line, focusing on producing titles such as Punisher: War Zone and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

As editor of Marvel Knights, Quesada worked on a number of low-profile characters such as Daredevil, Punisher, The Inhumans and Black Panther, encouraging experimentation and using his contacts in the independent comics world to bring in creators such as David W. Mack, Mike Oeming, Brian Michael Bendis, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.

* Marvel Knights Double Shot ( Punisher ) # 1 ( 2002 )

Initially by writer Mike Baron and artist Klaus Janson, it eventually ran 104 issues ( July 1987 – July 1995 ) and spun off two additional ongoing series — The Punisher War Journal ( 80 issues, November 1988 – July 1995 ) and The Punisher War Zone ( 41 issues, March 1992 – July 1995 ), as well as the black-and-white comics magazine The Punisher Magazine ( 16 issues, November 1989 – September 1990 ) and The Punisher Armory ( 10 issues, no cover dates, starting 1990 ), a fictional diary detailing " His thoughts!

After the series ' conclusion, an epilogue of sorts was published in the form of a Punisher special, The Punisher in the ' Nam: Final Invasion, which included the unpublished issues # 85 and 86.

During his run on Supreme Power, Frank also provided covers for a diverse number of Marvel books, such as Silver Surfer # 7 ; Wolverine / Punisher # 2 ; The Incredible Hulk # 75 ; issues 4 and 6 of the Supreme Power spin-off miniseries, Doctor Spectrum ; The Amazing Spider-Man # 515 and 517 ; Black Panther # 10 ; and numerous others, as well as two pages of interior art for the Avengers: Finale one-shot.

Many issues later Punisher finds Bullseye's coma bed and shoots him in head.

Significant appearances included starring in the limited series Deadly Foes of Spider-Man # 1-4 ( May-Aug. 1991 ); the Flowers for Rhino storyline in Spider-Man's Tangled Web # 5-6 ( Oct .-Nov. 2001 ) which is told from the character's perspective, and Punisher War Journal vol.

Thomas Jane ( born Thomas Elliott III ; February 22, 1969 ) is an American actor, best known for his roles in Deep Blue Sea ( 1999 ), 61 * ( 2001 ), The Punisher ( 2004 ), The Mist ( 2007 ), and Hung ( 2009 – 2011 ).

Her film roles include Jawbreaker ( 1999 ), The Brothers ( 2001 ), Rambo, Saw V and Punisher: War Zone ( all 2008 ), The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day ( 2009 ) and Bedrooms ( 2010 ).

* Punisher / Painkiller Jane # 1 ( 2001 )

* The Punisher ( 1993 ) – with Isao Abe, Toshio Kajino, Syun Nishigaki and Nobu.

* Punisher Vs. Bullseye ( 5 issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2005 – 2006 )

* Punisher War Zone ( with Garth Ennis, 6-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, February – March 2009 )

She co-starred in two graphic novels — Fury / Black Widow: Death Duty with Nick Fury, Marvel UK's Night Raven and Punisher / Black Widow: Spinning Doomsday's Web with the Punisher — as well as a three-issue arc, " The Fire Next Time ", by writer Scott Lobdell and penciller Randy Green, in Journey into Mystery # 517 – 519 ( Feb .– April 1998 ).

* The Punisher: Born ( limited series, 2003 )

In August 2003, Nash feuded with Chris Jericho and was forced to cut his hair after losing a hair vs. hair match against Jericho-this was to cover for Nash having to cut his hair for his role as " The Russian " for the 2004 Punisher movie.

In 2003 Falk theater was featured as a setting in the film The Punisher.

With high ticket and DVD sales, several new superhero films were released every year in the 2000s ( decade ), including Daredevil ( 2003 ), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( 2003 ), Hulk ( 2003 ), Catwoman ( 2004 ), Hellboy ( 2004 ), The Punisher ( 2004 ), Batman Begins ( 2005 ), Fantastic Four ( 2005 ), Ghost Rider ( 2007 ), Iron Man ( 2008 ), The Incredible Hulk ( 2008 ), and Watchmen ( 2009 ).

In 2003, a portion of the Marvel comic-inspired film " The Punisher " was filmed on Mullet Key and Fort Desoto as a mock-up of Puerto Rico.

Although spun out of licensed properties, Shang-Chi is a Marvel-owned character and has been firmly established as a part of the Marvel Universe with guest appearances in numerous other titles, such as Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Knights and X-Men.

* Marvel Knights

For example, Spider-Man's high school graduation was published in Amazing Spider-Man # 28 ( September 1965 ), his college graduation in Amazing Spider-Man # 185 ( October 1978 ), and his high school reunion in Marvel Knights: Spider-Man # 7 ( December 2004 ).

He also did the English voice acting for the parts of Sig and Count Veger in the Jak and Daxter video game series as well as voicing several characters in the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, as well as the voice of Gadon Thek in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

Mary Jane also carries a gun ( although Peter dislikes the idea ) which she uses against the Green Goblin in Marvel Knights Spider-Man # 12, and in the video game Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.

Wearing both his traditional costume and his Marvel Knights / MAX attire, and a new costume designed to look like his costume and Captain America's combined, the series pitted the character against a series of super-powered foes while also being involved in crossover events such as " World War Hulk " and " Secret Invasion ".

He also wrote a mini-series for Marvel Knights titled Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas, that started in September 2008, and directed the sequel Iron Man 2.

2, # 1-35 ( Marvel Comics / Marvel Knights, 2001 – 2004 )

* Elektra: Glimpse & Echo # 1-4 ( Marvel Comics / Marvel Knights, 2002 )

These included Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special for Marvel Comics in 2000, The Savage Dragon # 100 and The Amazing Spider-Man # 46 in 2002, Hellboy: Weird Tales # 6 in 2003 and Invincible # 14 in 2004. he then began doing full interior work on other Spider-Man books for Marvel, including issues # 5 and 8 of Marvel Knights Spider-Man in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and The Astonishing Spider-Man # 123, also in 2005.

* Marvel Knights Spider-Man # 5, 8 ( 2004 – 05 )

* Marvel Knights 4 # 13 ( Marvel, 2005 )

Marvel Knights is an imprint of Marvel Worldwide, Inc. that contains material taking place within the mainstream Marvel Universe ( Earth-616 ).

The Ultimate version of the Marvel Knights team made its debut in Ultimate Spider-Man # 106.