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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). [6] The "Kingpin" name is a reference to the crime lord title in Mafia slang nomenclature.
Wilson Grant Fisk is a powerful businessman and crime lord with an interest in controlling New York City. Decades after murdering his abusive father when he was a child, Fisk formed alliances with other criminal enterprises, used the aftermath of the Battle of New York to gain power in the city...
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.
Moreover, the Kingpin's attempt to silence Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson backfired when Spider-Man rescued Jameson, who then publicly exposed Fisk as the Kingpin, which caused the crime coalition to fall apart.
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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. Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jon Bernthal, Deborah Ann Woll, and Elden Henson return in the upcoming Disney+ series.
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.
Kingpin 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.
