He was created by Dennis O'Neil and John Romita Jr. and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #208 (September 1980). He was Peter Parker's rival at the Daily Bugle; competing for J. Jonah Jameson's position of leading photographer. Jameson would typically accept Bannon's photos because they made Spider-Man look bad. His fiancee, Amy Powell, at one point began hitting on Peter in order to get his attention.[12]