Maroni Crime Family

## Appearances

**The Maroni Crime Family** was the second biggest mafia organisation in Gotham City and in direct rivalry with the Falcone Crime Family.

## History

### Assault on Carmine Falcone

Decades ago, the Maronis fought a bloody war against Vincent Falcone and his organisation. Their leader, Luigi Maroni, tried to shoot Falcone one night, but instead only injured his son, Carmine. Though he survived thanks to the help of doctor Thomas Wayne, the two families continued their war and the Maronis seemingly lost, with Luigi retiring and his son, Sal, taking over for him.

### The Long Halloween begins

One night prior to Halloween, the Falcones attacked Maroni's Ristorante, the headquarters and a big source of income for the family, though they left Maroni himself allive, demonstrating their power over him. Over the next few months, the Falcones suffered many losses due to a serial killer named Holiday, which caused the Maronis to try to return to power. On Christmas Eve, they all met in the restaurant and ate together. Their food though had been poisoned by the criminally insane Arkham escapee, known only as the Joker. Once again, Sal himself was left allive in order to make the underworld and himself nervous so they would reveal the serial killers identity, or so the clown thought. Nonetheless though, Maroni was forced to carry the corpse of one of his friends to his car so he could dispose of him, before being assaulted by the vigilante known as Batman, who questioned him about the killings. A week later, Maroni and the other high ranking members of the family paid Falcone a visit on his yacht, to celebrate new year’s eve. Over the next months, the Holiday killings continued and even cost the Maronis some of their men.

### Hit on Luigi Maroni

On Father’s Day, Sal decided to visit his father in his residence and talked to him about his war with Carmine. This reunion was however cut short by Holiday who shot the older Maroni from afar. Enraged, Maroni tried to follow the killer, but was unsuccessfull in doing so. He later went to district attorney Harvey Dent and made a deal with him to testify against Falcone. However, this was but an effort to draw Dent out into the open. As they were in court, Maroni publicly accused Dent of being Holiday and threw acid into his face, severely scarring him for life, because he blamed him for his father’s demise.

### Sal's revenge and death

After being incarcerated, Sal was used as bait by the police in order to draw out Dent, who had since gone into hiding. And they were right, as he, Now going by the moniker of Two-Face, attacked the trasnsport of Maroni, together with the Zombie Solomon Grundy. Maroni tried to flee during the attack and ran into an alley, where Two-Face was already waiting for him. Though he himself did not kill him, the real Holiday then showed up and shot Maroni in the head, killing him. His death also marked the end of the Maroni Crime Family, as there was no one else to lead it.

## Members

* Sal Maroni (Leader, Deceased)
* Luigi Maroni (Former Leader, Deceased)
* Freddie (Deceased)

## Facilities

* Maroni's Ristorante
* Maroni Residence

## Trivia

* **The Maroni Crime Family** was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger and first appeared in DC comics in Detective Comics #66 in August 1942.