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The Kingpin (Wilson Grant Fisk) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr., and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #50 (cover-dated July 1967). The "Kingpin" name is a reference to the crime lord title in Mafia slang nomenclature.
At the center of many, if not most, wrongdoings perpetrated in New York City, Fisk has clashed with heroes, antiheroes, and villains alike. He does whatever it takes to maintain his stranglehold on the New York underground — that's why he's called the Kingpin.
A man of great size, and even greater wealth, Wilson Fisk is one of the mainstays of the criminal underworld. Unanimously recognized as The Kingpin of Crime, Fisk controls nearly all organized crime families on the East Coast that are not Maggia -affiliated.
He confronted the Kingpin, who savagely beat him and had him trapped, unconscious, within a cab at the bottom of a New York river so Murdock's death would seem an accident. But Murdock managed to escape. Kingpin made another attempt on Daredevil through Typhoid Mary, and succeeded in driving Murdock out of New York for many months.
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Kingpin. Hailing from the New York neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, calculating and reserved crime lord Wilson Fisk desires to tear down the old and rebuild the city in his image.
Aug 2, 2023 · Kingpin's popularity has led him to become a semi-regular antagonist in various forms of Spider-Man media, most famously including 1994's Spider-Man: The Animated Series and the critically acclaimed Into The Spider-Verse film by Sony Pictures.
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Wilson Fisk is power incarnate. Having wrested control of the streets by sheer force of will, Fisk uses his signature blend of cunning, ruthlessness, and charm to become more than a crime boss; he is the Kingpin.
