

Peter Parker once sold him exclusive photos of Spider-Man, but Bushkin's overbearing personality and his questions on how Parker managed to take the photos convinced him to stay with the Daily Bugle. Ī few years later, Barney had become the publisher of the Daily Globe, the main competitor of the Daily Bugle, a newspaper owned by Jameson. In revenge, Jameson once pranked Barney with an exploding pen. Jonah Jameson, whose stories Barney had rejected for being sensasionalist. During this time he unwittingly sparked a rivalry with J. Barney Bushkin's journalistic career dates as far back as his college years at the very least, when he edited a college newspaper.
