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    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.

    How old is he?

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    #1  Edited By Vallary

    Can someone tell me how old he is? I mean he must be more than 60! It's just kinda creepy.......................

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    #2  Edited By Hawk

    I think he is late 40s

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    #3  Edited By The_Martian

    Comic characters don't age. He is probably late 30's early 40's

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    #4  Edited By Hawk

    Agreed. I'm going with 27

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    #5  Edited By Vallary

    hello? he can't be 40 or even 27, his family died 30 years ago! and he was a soldier, had a family, 2 kids, a whole build-up life. i mean, come on, saing he's 40 is just rediculus

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    #6  Edited By VillainousV

    Dude's gotta be late forties early fifties age range. The perfect aging for wackadoo!! XD


    He's so crazy....................

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    #7  Edited By Colt

    hmmm.... they seemed to have blacked it out on the cover of punisher #44 of the 2004 series....

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    #8  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    Hawk said:
    "I think he is late 40s"
    Not even close.The Punisher is 36\37.
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    #9  Edited By Korg

    How in the hell did he serve in Vietnam if he's 36/37?? That's a pretty bad oversight, even with Marvel's sliding timeline.

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    #10  Edited By Darkchild
    Korg said:
    "How in the hell did he serve in Vietnam if he's 36/37?? That's a pretty bad oversight, even with Marvel's sliding timeline."
    Im going with 45/50
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    #11  Edited By Korg

    Yeah, unless he served as a toddler...

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    #12  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator

    The Punisher is younger than Iron Man...Iron Man was 38/39 during Civil War.So there is no way he's over 40.

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    #13  Edited By Korg

    Oh, Marvel continuity, you cut-up. If Punisher only served in the last year of the Vietnam war he would have been like 5-7 years old haha.

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    #14  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    Korg said:
    "Oh, Marvel continuity, you cut-up. If Punisher only served in the last year of the Vietnam war he would have been like 5-7 years old haha."
    It's possible the reason people seem younger than they should be...may have something to do with Heroes Reborn.Most of Marvel's main heroes should be at least 60 or older by real world time.
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    #15  Edited By Darkchild
    Vance Astro said:
    "Korg said:
    "Oh, Marvel continuity, you cut-up. If Punisher only served in the last year of the Vietnam war he would have been like 5-7 years old haha."
    It's possible the reason people seem younger than they should be...may have something to do with Heroes Reborn.Most of Marvel's main heroes should be at least 60 or older by real world time."
    YEah i see that but in his reality hes somehow 45-50
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    #16  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    Darkchild said:
    "Vance Astro said:
    "Korg said:
    "Oh, Marvel continuity, you cut-up. If Punisher only served in the last year of the Vietnam war he would have been like 5-7 years old haha."
    It's possible the reason people seem younger than they should be...may have something to do with Heroes Reborn.Most of Marvel's main heroes should be at least 60 or older by real world time."
    YEah i see that but in his reality hes somehow 45-50"
    He's 38.
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    #17  Edited By Korg

    Deadliest 5-year-old ever.

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    #18  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    Korg said:
    "Deadliest 5-year-old ever."
    He should have logically been 5 but he wasn't.
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    #19  Edited By Korg

    It's a joke, Vance.

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    #20  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    Korg said:
    "It's a joke, Vance."
    I know but i'm a douchebag.
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    #21  Edited By Korg

    Just imagine an X-Babies style Frank Castle running around the jungles of Vietnam tearing it up.

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    #22  Edited By Zenma
    Colt said:
    "hmmm.... they seemed to have blacked it out on the cover of punisher #44 of the 2004 series...."
    my pikachu beat your's...even though mine looked like it got owned
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    #23  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    Zenma said:
    "Colt said:
    "hmmm.... they seemed to have blacked it out on the cover of punisher #44 of the 2004 series...."
    my pikachu beat your's...even though mine looked like it got owned"
    ...............
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    Five yr. old Punisher wins

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    #25  Edited By punisherette

    The punisher's first appearance was in 1974.. so he's 34?

    I saw this T on ebay and they had all his stats except for his age

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=260322763378

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    #26  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    punisherette said:
    "The punisher's first appearance was in 1974.. so he's 34?

    I saw this T on ebay and they had all his stats except for his age

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=260322763378"
    subtracting 1974 by 2008 is not how you figure out how old he is.
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    #27  Edited By Mr. Punisher

    Yeah Spider-man was a teenager in the 60's and he's in his late 20's now so it's not real time.

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    #28  Edited By God's Son
    Mr. Punisher said:
    "Yeah Spider-man was a teenager in the 60's and he's in his late 20's now so it's not real time."
    Spider-Man was retconned.
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    #29  Edited By Resonate

    He's old enough

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    #30  Edited By Mr. Dead Pool

    Early 40's

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    depends. MAX says hes born in 1950. i prefer to think he stays 47 forever.
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    #32  Edited By Vallary
    @kev17: According to MAX, His wife Maria was born 1948 and killed 1976. So, he HAD to be already 30 back then, he was a giant muscle, he has been at war many times and so on and so on - even 25 was impossible. 30 is absolute minimum and i mean - minimum. 40 would be far more accurate. But then he's supposed to be 70 now. And he didn't change a bit since 1976. And his wife could not be much older. I thing she was in fact younger than him.
    It COULD be because of his contract with some kind of evil force in Punisher: Born, where he agreed to be given opportunity to never quit war like he always wanted, but then the voice in his head said that for that it's going to take his family, but the memories of this were deleted from Castle's mind in an instant, so he wasn't able to prevent their deaths.
    but why was it never mentioned again?
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    #33  Edited By speedlgt

    hes old man I say even early 40s is pushing it.....I say he became the punisher at 40 and hes like 45 -47 now HAS to be. 
    but as old as he is he really shouldnt be as bad ass as he is age should take a toll
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    @Vallary:
    Well i dont know about all that, im just going by what ive read about him. i dont mean he stays 47 for an eternity or anything, but that just seems the perfect age for him.
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    the punisher was in Vietnam so it was either 1968 or 1969 that the started so he would be been at least 18 years old to be drafted in the so since its now 2014 he would be 61 or 62 years old now

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    Some of you people really thought he was in his late 20s or mid 30s... yeah, being in you're 40s is really old... what a bunch of dumbasses...

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    Frank's war experience was retconned to the Middle East.

    He's in his 30's or 40's at most.

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    Nowadays with the retcon he is in his late 30's or early 40's

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