Civil War: Iron Man & Kingpin
Well, there’s a reason he’s called the Kingpin.
While Kingpin sat in prison for all of Marvel’s Civil War event, I’ve seen enough true crime documentaries to know that doesn’t mean he can’t contribute. But the fact that he appears at all speaks more to the sad notion that superheroes have to scrape the bottom of the morality barrel. Captain America needs bad guys to flesh out his army and Iron Man can use his government influence if a baddie’s willing to beat up some of Cap’s guys. Really, the supervillains came out of Civil War the best — all except those two that ran into the Punisher. So with the stake of the costumed world at stake, today we’ll watch Iron Man play games with Kingpin in Civil War: War Crimes one-shot, written by Frank Tieri and drawn by Staz Johnson.
Kingpin, real name Wilson Fisk and the undisputed boss of New York City’s underworld, continually rises…
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