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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
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Originally posted by DinoDoc
I don't remember him poping caps in litterbugs. Care to provide an issue number? I will agree with you that he isn't a hero. Hence the use of the term anti-hero. |
You expect me to remember a comic book number from the mid 70s?
http://www.geocities.com/frankcastlewarjournal/Home.htm
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On that day, Frank vowed to use his skills and experience to wage a one-man war on crime. He set out to punish all criminals, and more often than not, that punishment takes a very lethal form indeed. |
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Qua...6/Antihero.html
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The Bronze Age (early 1970's to 1986) introduced the antihero again, but this time as a minor supporting character. The most famous of this is comic's first true antihero, Marvel's the Punisher. Once again, the cardinal rule of comics - heroes don't use guns - was retconned. Frank Castle, aka the Punisher, was a cop who saw his entire family gunned down in front of him by rival mob families. After quitting the force, Castle began his crusade against the underworld with an array of weapons, rarely ever leaving his targets alive (Christensen and Seifert, 52). The Punisher immediately became extremely popular with audiences, appearing sporadically in numerous comics. In their eyes, he was eliminating the scum of the world, such as drug dealers, serial killers, and rapists. He had become their judge, jury, and executioner... and the audience couldn't get enough. Many of these antihero counterparts soon followed, such as Marvel's Elektra, the first female antihero, and DC's Deathstroke, a biologically enhanced mercenary. |
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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
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Spidy was swinging by, saw Punisher open up on some litterbug, went after him. That's about all I remember. I'm trying to google it right now.
http://www.spiderfan.org/characters/punisher.html
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The Punisher has ranged from the controlled hitman, focused on killing real criminals, to the 'obssessed with the law' lunatic, who shot at a couple for littering, and at a taxi driver who heard the shots and fled, running a red light (Spectacular Spider-Man #82). Fortunately, he missed, which doesn't happen very often. This could have been a clear indicator that he was not himself. After all, that was a side of the Punisher which wasn't seen very often. Most of the time he's a cold killer, and has a good discernment. |
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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
time: 00:24
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Nah, the original Hobgoblin, Ned Leeds, Betty Leeds (J. Jonah Jameson's secretary) husband, reporter for the Daily Bugle. He had discovered a secret lair of the Green Goblin and tried to replicate his experiment, but without staying in the solution long enough to induce homocidal insanity. He thought he succeeded, but he failed.
He managed to know out Spidey's Spider sense with some gas, but I caught a spot where I could have earned a No-Prize cuz they used the Spidey-sense waves when he was being attacked. I should have sent in for it, but I was too lazy to bother. 
After Ned died, Jack-O-Lantern stole the Hobgoblin's battle van and decided to switch identities, but he lacked HG's super strength, so he was never really a match for Spidey.
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
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i've never read a comic book, but i know a little about most of the characters like from animated shows...
i think the best are Spawn, Batman, the Punisher, the Wolverine, and the Beast (how could you not give him a slot?)
why? they're the only characters that have any complexity and have a dark side to them. These run of the mill 'perfect' heroes like Captain America are corny and unrealistic while 'perfect but misunderstood' ones like Spiderman are equally unrealistic.
If you're a hero who has undergone a traumatic experience (batman's parent's being murdered, spawn being murdered, punisher's family being murdered, wolverine and beast being oppressed for being mutants), become seperated from society and spend your time fighting (and killing) criminals, you're bound to have a sinister dark aspect to you.
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