Maggia

Maggia's Dons

The **Maggia** is a criminal syndicate of mafia families appearing in *The City That Never Sleeps* downloadable content for *Marvel's Spider-Man*, who compete with each other for supremacy.

The *de-facto* leader of the Maggia is Don Vincente Fortunato. The other heads of families are Don Caesar Cicero, Don Mauchio, Don Frank Costa, and Hammerhead.

## History

### Early history

Maggia was the most power full crime organization in New York. At some point, they became interested in the skills of the Black Cat burglar - Walter Hardy. They offered him to work for them, but he refused. In response, the Dons threatened to kill him and his daughter, Felicia. Walter deliberately surrendered to the police and faked his death (allegedly he drowned while trying to escape from prison) thereby removing the threat from his daughter. The Maggia also frequently bribed the father of Yuriko Watanabe who was a cop, leading to the latter's fall from grace.

Some time later, J. Jonah Jameson found a lot of information about Maggia's Dons. They had to stop their crimes because they were in danger.

Maggia returned few years later. Policewoman Yuriko Watanabe started to destroying their bases and businesses. Maggia started gang war with Wilson Fisk (Kingpin) - new criminal in New York. Fisk had to much people so Maggia lost. Kingpin became the most power full gangster in the city. Maggia escaped into the shadow.

### The City That Never Sleeps

#### The Heist

After Kingpin's downfall and Demon's defeat appeared a power vacuum that each of the Maggia families want to claim. The police had raided one of the families recently and among the items recovered, was a lost masterpiece painting called "The Maria". The painting is currently on display at an art museum. *Frederico Frezelli, Sal Patrillo* and some other members of Hammerhead family attempts to steal painting, but Spider-Man stops them. While they fight, the Black Cat breaks the painting, takes the data drive hidden in it and leaves. Spider-Man assumes that she is working with Hammerhead. This event made Maggia's families angry. Shortly after that, Black Cat steals data drive from Cicero's shop and escaped. Spider-Man came to the Cicero shop and defeating all thugs. Black Cat then stole Mauchio drive (which was hidden in rare book). While she is doing that, Cicero and Mauchio families are starting to think that Spider-Man alliances with Hammerhead in order to take down other Dons. Felicia was escaping when Mauchio's thugs were fighting with Spider-Man. Peter defated all enemies. This same night Black Cat stiles Costa's family data drive. Costa's thugs starts making Hammerhead problems.This events started gang war between Hammerhead and other Maggia's families . Black Cat tricked Hammerhead and escaped with Hammerhead's data drive but he put a bomb in Felicia's home. Building explode but Black Cat survived.

#### Turf Wars

Hammerhead stole a lot of Sable weapons to continue a gang war. He get a North part of Upper East Side which was controlled by Costa's family. Hammerhead wanted to defat Costa and get all Upper East Side but Costa's thugs was stopping his attacks

Hammerhead didn't attack Cicero's and Mauchio's districts. He focus on North districts of New York. He was trying to defat Don Fortunato and Costa. Hammerhead thugs was fighting against Maggia in Harlem, Upper East Side and Upper West Side but they can't defat Maggia factions.

Some time later Hammerhead was hiding in the Harlem Sanitarium. Maggia's thugs attacked him and his crew. Hammerhead was losing but Spider-Man came at the battle field and defeated all thugs. This same time Yuriko Watanabe and group of policemen found hidden Hammerhead's room. Hammerhead captured Yuri and killed all policemen. Spider-Man came there but Hammerhead escaped.

Maggia's Dons were hiding in the Auerbach Theatre. Hammerhead's thugs attacked and caught them. Hammerhead planned to kill them on the live stream but Spider-Man rescued them. After few minutes police arrived and helped Maggia's Dons. Next Spider-Man defated Hammerhead. Yuri came there and killed Hammerhead. At the way to the mortuary one of the corrupted cop rescued Hammerhead so he survived.

#### Silver Linning

Hammerhead's thugs attacked a group of policemans. Spider-Man came and defated all enemies. Next Silver Sable arrived and interrogated one of the thugs.

Then, Hammerhead confronted Silver Sable and Spider-Man on top of the building. Black Cat rescued Spider-Man but Hammerhead kidnaped Silver Sable. She was tortured in the Hammerhead's base. Spider-Man rescued her. They knew how they can defat Hammerhead. They made a special weapon to defat him. Hammerhead came. Spider-Man and Silver Sable defated him. After that police took Hammerhead and arrested him. In the city there were still a lot of Maggia's people. Hammerhead lost gang war.

Spider-Man found record of Maggia's thug , Yuriko Watanabe and psychologist. When Spider-Man found all records, Yuri called him and gave him an address. Spider-Man went there and found a body of a Maggia thug, who Yuri killed.

## Organization

### Maggia Dona

Within the Maggia group, there were several factions collaborating within made up of various families, led by "dons". Vincente Fortunato, Frank Costa, Don Mauchio and Cesar Cicero are the dons of their respective families. Cicero is a corrupt lawyer, Mauchio is known to "get creative", Costa targets many innocent families, and Fortunato is the *de facto* leader of the Maggia. After Hammerhead hires Black Cat to steal their personal drives to access their wealth, the three agree to team up to fight against him. However, Hammerhead steals Sable International technology and kidnaps them, intending to bury their alive in cement while streaming the event on television. However, Spider-Man arrives, freeing them while fighting Hammerhead. The police them help Fortunato, Costa, Mauchio and Cicero from the cement.

### Location

The **Maggia** controls most of the illegal gambling, loan-sharking, and narcotics trade in the United States, as well as many legal gambling casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Las Vegas, Nevada. It also has great influence within various labor unions, and controls politicians on every level of government. They even operate on Harlem, Chinatown, Midtown, Brooklyn and Manhattan.

### Equipment

The Maggia uses assault rifles, pistols, machine guns, crowbars, clubs, batons, lead pipes and sniper rifles.

A unique Cicero's thug in Like Old Times is using a minigun.

## Original appearance

For more background of Maggia throughout comic book history, see **all appearances of Maggia** on the **Marvel Database**
The Maggia first appeared in *Avengers* #13 (February 1965). It is believed that the Maggia was created as a (thinly-disguised) analogue to the real-world American Mafia to avoid offending said groups as some comic book distributors at the time had ties with them.