Spider-Man - 10 Worst Things J. Jonah Jameson Has Ever Done

10. Hired Luke Cage To Beat Up Spider-Man

Jameson has always had a pretty angry attitude towards Spider-Man, but every so often there are moments where even he manages to make audiences gasp by stepping out a little too far.

One such occasion was in the Amazing Spider-Man #123, where the editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle hired Luke Cage to catch Spider-Man - dead or alive - for $5,000. Following the deaths of Gwen Stacy and his friend Norman Osborn, Jameson was pushed over the edge and became convinced that Spider-Man was responsible for the tragedy.

Fortunately, Luke Cage quickly realised that New York's web-crawler wasn't responsible for these deaths and thankfully decided to scrap the deal he had made. Cage even offered to give the $5,000 back to Jameson following his altercation with Spidey.

Comic book fans know that Jameson is a fairly slimy individual at the best of times, resorting to all manner of means to get ahead of a story or put Spider-Man down, but this was one moment that few of them could have seen coming. A guy like Cage is not exactly small, and the possibility that he could have actually killed him in the process can't have escaped his mind.

All in all, it certainly helps throw a darker shade on Jameson.