Wilson Fisk, The Kingpin, is one of the most deadly “normal” super-child in comics. He has no superpowers, but he do Having a vast criminal empire that allows him to make life extremely difficult for superheroes like Daredevil and Spider-Man. While Fisk has a double life as a “legitimate” businessmanThe chevilleur does not wear costume. Despite this, he still has a recognizable look: bald, with a white and useful business costume hiding his physics as a sumo wrestler. (The whole Kingpin’s additional circumference? Is that musclenot fat.)
What inspired Kingpin’s design? Was it Lex Luthor, the other most famous bald villain of the comics? The myth of the yield industry, supported by John Romita Jr. (the son of the Kingpin co-creator and a comic artist himself), is that Romita Sr. used actor Sydney Greenstreet as Fisk model. A British Thespian, Greenstreet is the best known today to have appeared in three images from the 1940s with Humphrey Bogart: “The Maltese Falcon”, “Casablanca” and “Passage to Marseille”. The role of Greenstreet in “Maltese Falcon” as a Kasper gangster “The Fat Man” Gutman is the one who probably inspired the King track.
In An interview in 2023 with the 5am StoryTalk newsletterRomita Jr. mentioned how her father was a cinema; When Romita and his brother were watching films with their father, he spoke to them throughout the explanation of the film and his film mechanics. Romita Jr. described this as his education in narration. In addition, he also learned how his father would base his drawings on the faces of the characters in the films. (Aside from Kingpin, Romita Sr. based with a red look by Mary Jane Watson on the starlet Ann-Margret, Give Spider-Man’s comics a touch of slicing romance.))
“He would use the image of the face of a thug that I had seen in certain films. I remember, I said:” Dad, I know this guy. I saw his face! “And he says:” Yeah, it’s Sydney Greenstreet.
The Kingpin made his debut in “The Amazing Spider-Man” # 50, the famous “Spider-Man No More!” history. You know, the Whoever inspired Sam Raimi’s superlative “Spider-Man 2”, “ Until Peter Parker shoots away from his Spider-Man costume thrown into a trash can.
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In the issue, the configuration is that with Spider-Man temporarily left, criminal companies of the working ankle can flourish. But of course, Peter amounts to being Spider-Man at the end of the problem. Thus, in numbers n ° 51-52, he must face the working ankle.
