The Punisher stars Americans.
== Publication history ===== First appearance ===The Punisher was conceived by Gerry Conway, then-writer of The Amazing Spider-Man, and was inspired by The Executioner, a popular book series created by author Don Pendleton, in which a Vietnam veteran, Mack Bolan, becomes a serial killer of criminals after the Mafia-related deaths of his family
In 2019, Empire, ranked the Punisher 19th in their "50 greatest comic-book characters" list

