DAILY BLACK CAT FACTS

NOV 1, 2026

BLACK CAT’S BAD-LUCK POWERS WERE BOUGHT FROM THE KINGPIN — AND THEY WERE PRICED TO DESTROY SPIDER-MAN!

She asked every hero in New York for powers. The only one who said yes was the Kingpin of Crime.

In Spectacular Spider-Man #89 (1984), Felicia Hardy — refused powers by the Avengers and the Fantastic Four — accepts them from a mystery benefactor: the Kingpin, whose bad-luck gift was designed to destroy Spider-Man through her.

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