Missing Punisher appearances

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Missing Punisher appearances

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I noticed a couple of missing appearances for the Punisher.
PWJ 61/2 : Punisher kills an unamed criminal
PWZ 23/2 : Punisher trains and narrates his conditioning techniques, beats up some unnamed thugs
PWJ 70/1 : Punisher buys a car ( this issue is already included in other characters chronologies, like Payback and Lynn Michaels, but was skipped for the Punisher. The /1 should be added to the other characters chronologies. The second story features Punisher IV Jimmy Pierce and is already included in his chronology). This one probably goes before PWJ 71/1.
Does the index give any indications for placement?
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MCP is also missing Frank's appearance in The Punisher Meets Archie #1, which the handbooks confirm is 616 rather than 7642.
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Giant Ant wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2019 10:37 amThe /1 should be added to the other characters chronologies.
First stories don't get a /number. Only subsequent stories in an issue.
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The Punisher Index says this for PWJ 70:

PUNISHER II/FRANCIS G. CASTIGLIONE/"FRANK CASTLE"
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P2 95
*PWJ 70
PWJ 71
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PWJ 61/2 is covered, but doesn't give a chronology. I would put it before the Suicide Run crossover begins, here:

PUNISHER II/FRANCIS G. CASTIGLIONE/"FRANK CASTLE"
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GR/W/P:DD
*PWJ 61/2
PWJ 61
……

PWZ 23/2 is covered, but doesn't give a chronology. It's one of those weird things where Punisher is talking to the audience or something. There were more than a few of them, some were in Annuals I think? I'll have to look around to see if any of these were given a chronology by the Index.
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Also, do we need /2 when there's no reason not to believe the second story doesn't follow on immediately after the first story, with nothing else to place in there to break them apart?
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If by "the second story", you mean that it's truly a second story, then yes, you need the /2. It doesn't matter that the second story takes place immediately after the first story. If by "the second story" you mean one story broken into chapters, then it's one story.
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Col_Fury wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:34 pm The Punisher Index says this for PWJ 70:

PUNISHER II/FRANCIS G. CASTIGLIONE/"FRANK CASTLE"
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P2 95
*PWJ 70
PWJ 71
……

PWJ 61/2 is covered, but doesn't give a chronology. I would put it before the Suicide Run crossover begins, here:

PUNISHER II/FRANCIS G. CASTIGLIONE/"FRANK CASTLE"
……
GR/W/P:DD
*PWJ 61/2
PWJ 61
……

PWZ 23/2 is covered, but doesn't give a chronology. It's one of those weird things where Punisher is talking to the audience or something. There were more than a few of them, some were in Annuals I think? I'll have to look around to see if any of these were given a chronology by the Index.
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That isn't much different from when he narrates his "war journal " entries. I guess he just likes talking to himself!
see also the Punisher Armory series, where he describes various weaponry. Would that be canon? I think we see him in at least one issue...
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Is Rat-Man 616? He met the Punisher in Wiz #12 (Oct 1996). That story is only in Italian, so I've never read it (or any other Rat-Man story), and so don't know if it's possible that's the 616 version of Frank who appears there or not.
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Rat-Man is set in his own universe. There are other team-up with Marvel characters (with Spider-Man, with Captain America & Nick Fury, with Wolverine, with Elektra and a really hilarious one with Doctor Doom, while Von Doom was training in Tibet ), but all of them are set in the Rat-Man universe.
When these stories were reprinted in more recent times, these characters have been slightly modified so as not to have rights issues with Marvel.
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