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>The Green Goblin would take hostages in a bank and kill half of them, and ol' Spidey would web-sling his way in there and grab him by the scruff of the neck and hand him over to the cops, and he'd be right back out on the street for the next issue.
Ackshually, since we are on /co/, I feel obligated to point out that the Green Goblin was never arrested. He just plain got away every time he fought Spidey, then he while fighting Spidey. The third Green Goblin, Harry Osborn's psychiatrist, also got killed. I'm pretty sure he was only ever in one arc.
Now where you could make an argument is that eventually Peter did find out who the first and second Green Goblins were, and though they kept getting away, he didn't squeal on them, because the Green Goblin was a split personality, and he kept thinking they were "cured," but they kept relapsing. Well he paid for the first one when Norman killed his girlfriend. He kept letting Harry away with it too, until Harry's evil alt personality eventually turned good and he sacrificed himself.
Also, I doubt even Stan Lee would give himself any credit for The Punisher. He was long gone from writing Spidey by the time Punisher showed up. Actually, it seems relevant to point out that The Punisher only appeared after The Green Goblin died, and his first story arc stemmed from the repurcussions of that death. He first appeared in the same issue as The Jackal. The Jackal hired him to kill Spider-Man. Later we learn he did this because he blames Spider-Man for the death of Gwen Stacy. After Gwen Stacy and Norman Osborn died, everyone including the cops blamed Spider-Man. This is why The Punisher felt justified in trying to kill Spider-Man.
It's also noteworthy that The Punisher didn't get his own solo series for over a decade after his first appearance, and that solo series is really where the character we think of comes from. Before that, he was an occasional Spider-Man and Daredevil antagonist and/or supporting character. He was a hired assassin in his first appearance, though he showed a code of honor and switched sides when he realized his client was actually bad and his target was actually good. You point to the All in the Family comparison, but I don't think it went quite that far under Gerry Conway, though he is a ridiculous SJW now. But Frank's last appearance before his solo series, in Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #81-83, from 1983, written by Bill Mantlo, does have Frank freaking out and killing people for things like littering. (Specifically in issue #82.) That is the one extreme case of what you're talking about. All the other appearances of Punisher up to that point had him as ultimately a hero, even if he was mislead into thinking Spidey was a bad guy, and even if Spidey didn't agree with his methods. But in Spectacular #82, Punisher is shown as just being a more cartoonish caricature than the Jackal who hired him in the first place.
However, this ridiculously bad writing did not go unnoticed. The first Punisher miniseries (1986), written by Stephen Grant, was the character's next appearance. The plot is that it turns out Frank was only acting like that in his previous appearance because he was drugged by Jigsaw. The story is then about him fighting Jigsaw. So the point is, he was not intended as the ridiculous political caricature you say, and the one time it happened in his early appearances, they then gave him his own solo series that was all about explaining why that one bad story was bullshit.
As for All in the Family, the funny thing about that show is as it went on, the series itself had to acknowledge that Archie was right all along. When Rob Reiner quit, they had to write him out of the show. Meathead leaves Gloria and their son to run off and join a hippie commune. Archie was right about him and by extension all hippies. In the last season or two, once every other cast member had left and they renamed the show to "Archie Bunker's Place," he and Edith adopt Edith's niece (I think), Danielle, but Edith dies (when her actress quit), and then there's basically an MRA episode where the courts try to take her from him because since he's a man they assume he's a molester, and the episode is about how unjust that is. By the end, All in the Family was forced to get redpilled. Also, they 1970 George Jefferson, where the bit is that he was exactly like Archie only he hated white people. Now, I'm not gonna pretend they were ever as hard on George as they were on Archie, but it's a premise they wouldn't use today. Even Norman Lear, the biggest pinko commie in Hollywood for decades, was absolutely based and redpilled compared to modern television.
But yes, The Punisher is a ripoff of The Executioner. That's still true. As was the style at the time. Death Wish came out right around then as well (though isn't quite as close as Punisher was, since Kersey isn't supposed to be some highly trained badass, but rather an everyman). People of the era were fucking sick of hippie bullshit, and this all reflects that.