Ask the Professor #6 — Some Drunk Kid

jawad_4lyfe asks:
Hi Do you know the oldest Spider-man comic book?,and is the punisher an vrey
important comic or is not the important in the comic book industry?

Well, first of all, jawad, you need to learn what we in the professor biz call “editing,” because otherwise people will think that you’re either (a) in third grade or (b) drunk, and then won’t answer your questions. The Professor, though, is willing to take a shot:
First, assuming you’re talking about the guy named Peter Parker, the oldest Spider-Man story is in a comic called Amazing Fantasy #15, with a cover date of August, 1962, making it over 45 years old. The oldest comic called “Spider-Man” is Amazing Spider-Man #1, cover-dated March, 1963, just seven months later. Both comics were created by the writer-artist team of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
The question about whether The Punisher is an important comic is harder to answer, because it involves opinions instead of facts. When he first appeared, in Amazing Spider-Man #129, dated February, 1974, he was part of a general climate of vigilante justice fantasy that included Charles Bronson in Death Wish and a series of pulpy paperback novels with a character called The Executioner (Mark Bolan? Mack Bolan? The Professor is too lazy to go see…). He started out as a sympathetic villain, and then 12 years later, in January, 1986, got his own mini-series. By then, the idea that a hero could, like, kill the bad guys was accepted; it was part of the generally more-adult stories comics were venturing into then. Is he important? He’s entertaining when he has a good writer or artist or both; Gerry Conway and Ross Andru created him, but his best early writer was Mike Baron, for the first four years or so of the regular Punisher comic, starting in 1987. His best and longest-tenured writer, though — at seven years — is the current one: Garth Ennis. Ennis started writing Frank Castle’s monthly adventures in 2000, and has been at it all decade (he’s wrapping up his run in a few months). Under Ennis, the character started out as grim satiric fun, but he’s gradually become more serious, and even more grim, over the years, and now is a grey, silent force of nature.
So, yeah: a series of good stories spread out over 33 years, a solid fan base — the Punisher title sells around 33-34,000 copies a month, and Punisher War Journal about 50,000, and the trades are steady sellers too — makes The Punisher a medium-important member of the Marvel Universe.