KONGPIN
Earth-8101
Real Name: Wilson Fisk
Identity/Class: Alternate Earth (Earth-8101) primate
Occupation: Criminal
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Green Goblin (Norman Osborn), Lizard (Dr. Curt Connors), Sandmonk (William Baker)
Enemies: Daredevil (Matt Murdock), Spider-Monkey (Peter Parker)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Monkhattan
First Appearance: Amazing Spider-Man Family I#1/2 (October, 2008)
Powers/Abilities: The Kongpin possesses immense physical strength, durability, and stamina, despite appearing overweight, due to his body being composed largely of dense muscle. Combined with his tactical intelligence and mastery of organized crime.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'8")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 200 lbs.)
Eyes: Black
Hair: Brown-greyish fur
History:
(Amazing Spider-Man Family I#1/2 (fb) - BTS) - Wilson Fisk rose from the criminal underworld to become the Kongpin, the most powerful crime lord in Monkhattan. Through intimidation, manipulation, and calculated violence, he built a vast criminal empire that brought him into repeated conflict with street-level heroes.
(Marvel Apes I#2/2 - BTS) - The Kongpin faced off against the monkey without fear, Daredevil.
(Marvel Apes I#2/2 - BTS) - Spider-Monkey faced off against the Kongpin. However this and other battles paled in comparison to Spider-Monkey's newest adversary, Aunt May's new boyfriend J. Jonah Japeson.
(Amazing Spider-Man Family I#1/2 (fb)) - At some point, Kongpin allied himself with Green Goblin, Lizard and Sandmonk to fight Spider-Monkey but were defeated regardless.
Comments: Created by Karl Kesel.
Both Marvel Apes I#2 (December, 2008) and Marvel Apes I#3 (December, 2008) included a Bonobo-Pen Bulletin letter page that established that several Marvel Apes variant covers at the time were part of their reality with fun little solicitations of those issues. In the Bonobo-Pen Bulletin letter page for Marvel Apes I#2 (December, 2008) Kongpin was mentioned in the solicitation for Daredevil#110 and the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Monkey#22.
Amazing Spider-Man Family I#1/2 (August, 2008) was reprinted as Marvel Apes I#0 (December, 2008).
The Marvel Apes limited series (2008) was conceived as a playful companion to the earlier Marvel Zombies phenomenon. Following the unexpected commercial success of Zombies, Marvel looked to replicate the formula by reimagining its superheroes in another offbeat, high-concept alternate reality. Writer Karl Kesel, inspired by Silver Age whimsy and the classic "What If?" tradition, pitched a world where Marvel's heroes and villains were evolved primates rather than humans. The project was greenlit as a four-issue miniseries, launching with a tongue-in-cheek promotional campaign that leaned into its absurdity while still delivering a surprisingly dark, satirical storyline. The series spawned several tie-ins and one-shots, positioning the Ape-Verse as both a parody of and homage to Marvel's multiverse storytelling.
Earth-8101 is the main Marvel Apes reality, but there are three others as well:
- Earth-81218, possible future of Earth-8101 set in the year 2099.
- Earth-90543, monkey Speedball was send back to his world and branded a traitor by the Ape-Vengers. This was a bad dream of the Gibbon.
- Earth-95019, diverged from Earth-8101 when zombies invaded their world. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Update #5 indicates that the timelines designated Earth-95019 and Earth-21050 were seemingly erased when Earth-616's Gorilla Girl went back to the moment the portal was opened and destroyed it.
Profile by MarvellousLuke
CLARIFICATIONS:
Kongpin has no known connections to
Images: (without ads)
Amazing Spider-Man Family I#1, p25, pan3 (main image)
Appearances:
Amazing Spider-Man Family I#1/2 (August, 2008) - Karl Kesel (writer), Ramon Bachs (pencils & inks), Tom Brennan (editor)
Marvel Apes I#2/2 (November, 2008) - Flourn (writer, editor of Bonobo-Pen Bulletin)
First Posted: 12/23/2025
Last Updated: 12/23/2025
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