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Attributes

Height: 5'7" (Approximate.)

Weight: 150 pounds (Approximate.)

Eyes: Black.

Hair: Black (if you can judge by their mustaches).

Features: Look exactly alike right down to their handlebar mustaches.

Summary

Created By: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko

Real Name: Ernesto and Luigi Gambonno

Current Aliases: None.

Former Aliases: The Great Gambinos, The Flying Gambonnos.

Dual Identity: Known to authorities.

Current Occupation: Either on the loose, in the can, or in the hospital. Take your pick.

Former Occupation: Circus acrobats, Kings of the Trapeze.

Citizenship: Italian.

Legal Status: Wanted by the police or maybe incarcerated or maybe hospitalized.

Place of Birth: Italy.

Marital Status: Single.

Known Relatives: Each other.

Known Confidants: Each other.

Known Allies: The Circus of Crime (The Ringmaster, Cannonball, The Clown, Princess Python, Ulik, Blackwing, Live Wire, Bruto the Strong Man, Rajah, Iron Jack Baker, Fire Breather (Fire-Eater), Teena the Fat Lady, Terrax the Tamer, Dragon Man), The Masters of Menace (The Clown, Cannonball, Princess Python).

Major Enemies: Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, The Scarlet Witch, Thor, the Black Panther, Luke Cage, Black Goliath, Howard the Duck, Iris Raritan, Sub-Mariner, Shroud, The Thing, Iceman, Johnny Blaze, the She-Hulk, Power Pack, Ben Reilly, Generation X, Devil Dinosaur, Moonboy.

Usual Bases: Either California or prison or the hospital.

Former Bases: All over the US and Europe.

Current Groups: None.

Former Groups: The Circus of Crime, The Masters of Menace.

Education: Unknown.

Powers & Paraphenalia

Strength Level: Norman human.

Powers: None.

Abilities: Great acrobatic talents, trapeze experts.

Equipment: Trapezes, large net, gymnastic rings.

Weapons: A mace, lead weights, rifles.

Limitations: Can't tell them apart. Pretty much left to climbing all over each other without their trapezes.

Background

Frustrated by this defeat, the Gambonnos are more than willing to throw in with the Clown, Princess Python, and Cannonball. They kick the Ringmaster out and become the Masters of Menace. Unfortunately, the group robs an art gallery, which takes the Gambonnos away from their trapezes. They are reduced to picking up Cannonball and using him as a battering ram. When Spider-Man attacks the Masters at their hideout, the Gambonnos have a set of gymnastic rings to swing from but they are clobbered by the web-slinger all the same.

Now calling themselves "The Flying Gambonnos", Ernesto and Luigi rejoin the Ringmaster when he tries to lure Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch into the group. One Gambonno is defeated by Hawkeye's twirling wire arrow, the other by Hawkeye's hi-intensity sound arrow. The Circus of Crime returns when the Ringmaster hypnotizes the Mighty Thor into helping to steal the extremely heavy Golden Bull. Not only is the Gambonnos only job in this caper to leap around to try to confuse the police but the rest of the Circus seems to have forgotten their name; calling them the Gambinos. When the plan goes wrong, they manage to escape with the rest of the Circus.

When the Circus attempts to disrupt the wedding of Yellowjacket and the Wasp at Avengers mansion, the Gambonnos are thumped by the Black Panther. When Thor battles Ulik the Troll at the Circus, the Gambonnos are simply grabbed and nabbed by the police. When they next face Daredevil, they have changed their acrobat outfits from blue to green. When they face Luke Cage, they stop talking like they're from Newark and start talking like they're from Italy. (They also get crushed into unconsciousness inside Black Goliath's giant hand.) By the time they meet up with Howard the Duck, their accents are REALLY thick, one seems to think the other is named "Vito", and they get clobbered by Howard's friend Iris Raritan.

And so it goes for them against the Sub-Mariner, the Shroud, the Hulk, Iceman, Johnny Blaze, the Hulk again, the She-Hulk, Power Pack, the Ben Reilly Spider-Man, Howard the Duck (with their new kinky-sex outfits), Generation X, the Peter Parker Spider-Man, Devil Dinosaur, and Moonboy.

In the end, the Gambonnos move to Hollywood, change their acrobat costumes to black, and join the Clown, Cannonball, and Princess Python in a little armed robbery. Whether they are in prison, in the hospital, or still on the loose after being clubbed with a Big Top tent pole by the Hulk has never been made clear.

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