5 years before the film was released, a character called The Punisher made his debut in the Marvel comic book The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (February 1974). In the comics, The Punisher is a vigilante who hunts down, kills, kidnaps and tortures criminals in his crusade against crime. In his backstory, The Punisher is Frank Castle, a former Italian American police detective who became The Punisher when his family was slain by gangsters. Max Rockatansky bears some similarities with The Punisher: Max is a cop. Max's family are slain by a motorcycle gang. Max becomes Mad Max and goes vigilante and seeks to avenge his family. Max tortures a mechanic on the whereabouts of the Toecutter and his associates. Max eliminates the motorcycle gang and kills Johnny the Boy by handcuffing him to a ruptured fuel tank that explodes.

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