12 Things You Didn't Know About Kingpin
1. He Inspired The Invention Of The House Arrest Tag
The Kingpin has unquestionably had a major effect on the Marvel universe. However, his influence transcends comic books since he has effected the real world as well.
In the 1979 story, The Kingpin's Midnight Massacre, Fisk plants a tracer on Spider-Man so he can easily locate the wallcrawler.
A judge called Jack Love (yes, that is his real name), read this comic and thought Kingpin's tracker was such a brilliant idea, it should be implemented into reality. The judge believed that prisons had become overcrowded in recent years, which forced criminals to be released early. He thought a good way to counter this problem was to use a tracking device to monitor parolees' behaviour.
Love convinced a sales rep, Michael T. Goss, to build an ankle tag that transmitted a radio signal that could be picked up by a receiver.
Four years after this comic was published, Love personally put several felons under house arrest using the invention he helped devise; the electronic tag.
If Love never read this comic, this form of monitoring criminals and house arrest may not have existed.
So, if anyone ever tells you that no good has ever came from reading a comic, please shove this story repeatedly into their face.
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