The Maggia is a criminal syndicate of mafia families who compete with each other for supremacy, appearing in The City That Never Sleeps DLC campaign for Marvel's Spider-Man.
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[]
The Maggia was the most powerful 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 the Maggia Dons. They had to stop their crimes because they were in danger.
The Maggia returned a few years later. Policewoman Yuriko Watanabe started to destroying their bases and businesses. Maggia started a gang war with Wilson Fisk (Kingpin) - new criminal in New York. Fisk had more people so the Maggia lost. Kingpin became the most powerful gangster in the city. Maggia escaped into the shadows.
Marvel's Spider-Man[]
The City That Never Sleeps[]
The Heist[]
After Kingpin's downfall and Demon's defeat, the power vacuum these events created caused each of the Maggia families to resurface vie for control of New York's underworld. 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 the Hammerhead family attempts to steal the 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 the other Maggia families angry. Shortly after that, Black Cat steals a data drive from Cicero's shop and escaped. Spider-Man came to the Cicero shop and defeated all of the thugs. Black Cat then stole the Mauchio drive (which was hidden in rare book). While she is doing that, Cicero and Mauchio families are starting to think that Spider-Man is allied with Hammerhead in order to take down the other Dons. Felicia was escaping when Mauchio's thugs were fighting with Spider-Man. Peter defeated all of the enemies. This same night, Black Cat steals the Costa family data drive. Costa's thugs starts making Hammerhead problems. These events started a gang war between Hammerhead and the other Maggia families . Black Cat tricked Hammerhead and escaped with Hammerhead's data drive but he put a bomb in Felicia's home. The building explodes, 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 defeat 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 defeat Don Fortunato and Costa. Hammerhead thugs was fighting against Maggia in Harlem, Upper East Side, and Upper West Side but they can't defeat 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.
The Maggia Dons were hiding in the Auerbach Theatre. Hammerhead's thugs attacked and caught them. Hammerhead planned to kill them on the live stream by burying them in cement at a construction site, but Spider-Man rescued them. After a few minutes the police arrived and helped save the Dons. Next Spider-Man defeated Hammerhead. Yuri arrived and driven over the edge by Hammerhead's actions, shot Hammerhead. On the way to the hospital, one of Hammerhead's men revived Hammerhead.
Silver Lining[]
Hammerhead's thugs attacked a group of police officers. Spider-Man came and defeated 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 kidnapped Silver Sable. She was tortured in Hammerhead's underground base. Spider-Man rescued her. They knew how they can defeat Hammerhead. They made a special weapon to defeat 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. Hammerhead lost the gang war.
In the aftermath, Spider-Man found recordings of a Maggia thug, Yuriko Watanabe, and a psychologist. When Spider-Man found all of the recordings, 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[]
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.