Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Punisher (Frank Castle) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Mario Lorenzo Castiglione (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Louisa Castiglione (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Lauren Buvoli (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
- Sal Buvoli (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Rosa Crime Family (First appearance)
- Rosa Kid (Vince Rosa) (First appearance; dies)
- Al Rosa (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- God (Invoked)
- Terry Cooley (Mentioned)
- Michael Castiglione (Mentioned)
- United States Marine Corps
- Angie Buvoli (Mentioned)
- Alice Vecchio (Mentioned)
- Alice Vecchio's son (Mentioned)
- Rudyard Kipling (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Omar Khayyam (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Catholic Church
- Father David (First appearance)
- William Blake (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Sue Carmenelli (First appearance; dies)
- Gestapo (Mentioned)
- Kate Donegan (Mentioned)
- Tim Donegan (First appearance)
- Tim Donegan's father (Mentioned)
- Tony Buvoli (First appearance)
- NYPD (Mentioned)
- Henry Tully (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-200111 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- Brooklyn (Main story and flashback)
- Brooklyn Navy Yard (Only in flashback)
- Carmine's Restaurant (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Mapleton (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Washington Cemetery (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- The Bronx (Only in flashback)
- Bronx Zoo (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan (Only in flashback)
- Brooklyn (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- Vietnam (Only in flashback)
- South Vietnam (Only in flashback)
- Firebase Valley Forge (Mentioned)
- Quang Tri Province (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Khe Sanh Combat Base (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Hanoi (Only in flashback)
- South Vietnam (Only in flashback)
- Iwo Jima, Japan (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
Items:
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Notes
- Castle says that he was ten years old in 1960, making his birth year 1950. This would have been further confirmed by the original cover for Punisher (Vol. 7) #44 but the date was later covered up upon publishing.
- Despite this, Punishermax #22 ignored the year provided by Ennis and went with 1947 as Castle's birth year instead.
Trivia
- Revealed that Frank would have had a sibling, but his mother miscarried.