User blog comment:Kate.moon/The Punisher Coming to FOX/@comment-3115017-20111024030131/@comment-61022-20111024035115

It's a show licensed by Marvel Comics, doing a direct origin straight from the comics would not be copyright infringement at all. However, I'd point out doing a direct origin straight from the comics would also include all the goofy Punisher stories from the 70's where he ran around shooting people with rubber bullets.