Kingpin

Amazing Spider-Man #163-#164

by Ross Andru, 1976

Through a series of robberies, the Kingpin assembled a machine called the Vita-Drain. It's purpose was to steal a Spider-Man's life-force in order to restore his son Richard to life. The Kingpin left a series of clues to lure the wall-crawler in, but it was the unusual amount of electricity being used in an abandoned warehouse that brought Spider-Man to the scene.

After a short battle where he subdued Spider-Man with a gassed trick tie-pin, the Kingpin activated the machine and restored his son to life. Having his life force didn't kill Spider-Man outright, but it would slowly over a period of six hours.

Desperate, Spider-Man consulted his friend Dr. Curt Conner. Conner's fashioned a reverse-siphon that Spider-Man could use on Richard Fisk to recover his life force. Ambushing the Kingpin and Richard Fisk at the docks, Spider-Man managed attach the device to Richard and steal his life force back. After a short battle, the Kingpin was buried (and presumed dead) under the wreckage of a collapsing railroad bridge. The only positive thing that came about was Spider-Man's life force was strong enough to jumpstart Richard's heart allowing him to survive the events.