It seems a 1977 fight between the Kingpin and Spider-Man inspired the creation of electronic ankle bracelets. I bet Martha Stewart wished the book was never published. Check out this article:
In a 1977 edition of Spider-Man, Peter Parker has the tables turned on him. The villain, Kingpin, tracks down Spidey using an electronic transmitter that he’d fastened to the superhero’s wrist. Although Kingpin loses in the end (he always does), one New Mexico judge saw beauty in his plan. Inspired by the strip, Judge Jack Love turned to computer salesman Michael Goss and asked if he could create a similar device to keep track of crime suspects awaiting trial. In 1983, Goss produced his first batch of electronic monitors. Authorities in Albuquerque then tested the devices on five offenders, using the gadgets as an alternative to incarceration. Today, the transmitters are a common sight in courtrooms across the country, usually in the form of electronic ankle bracelets. Most famously, Martha Stewart donned one while she was under house arrest in 2004. Perhaps she would have felt better knowing that the gadget had once nabbed have felt better knowing that the gadget had once nabbed Spider-Man too.
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BD, tell me how to send this strip to you. I wouldn’t mind having a phone conversation with you.
How do I send them to crawl space?
Doesn’t matter. I guess color would be best.
In color or in Black and white?
Andy,
Do you have a scan of the newspaper strip? It’d be awesome to post.
I guess Len Wein must be proud.:)
This happned in the Spider-man newspaper strip, Not in the comic book shown