Talk:Maggia (comics)

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Anyone out there have the type of real world facts and dates to bring a nonfictional perspective to this article? Clearly the Maggia was Marvel's method for using the Mafia in its comics without actually calling it the Mafia; I'm curious why this was done. (Many publishers and distributors of comics and other periodicals at the time had alleged ties to the Mafia.) Eventually Marvel started to allow references to the Mafia in its comics; what changed? Do they still use the Maggia label in reference to the Hammerhead, Silvermane, etc. families? I don't recall seeing it in a long time. Seems like such a goofily obvious fictional disguise for a real-world organisation (which they now have no problem referencing openly) would seem corny to Marvel's mostly older audience today.

What about pronunciation? I favour "MAH-jee-uh" but as a youngster I assumed it was "MAG-ee-uh." Is there an official answer?

64.24.149.97 22:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

If it's Italian, the pronunciation would probably be "MAH-jee-uh" (actually, it would be more like "MAH-jah") It is now kind of silly, considering the constant references to more realistic, gritty, less-superpowered Mafia organizations in books like "The Punisher." I think the best answer is that they didn't want to offend anyone, even though it was obvious they were making an analogy to the Italian Mafia Callmarcus (talk) 04:40, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Maggia Branches
There shouldn't be any name of the branch outside of the team alliance. It looks weak with it ouside of it.96.238.36.171 (talk) 12:39, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

"Copyrightable"
I removed this portion from the introduction:

and because the word "Maggia" was copyrightable.{ { clarify|reason=You can't copyright a single word; maybe they trademarked it?|date=February 2017 } }

... for two reasons. (1) Copyright law covers original and creative works of expression. A single word is never a work of expression. (2) A single word might serve as a trademark. However, I searched the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's database and there's no evidence that Marvel ever applied for a trademark registration covering "Maggia." In that light, to claim that Marvel chose the name for trademark reasons needs some kind of evidence.Acsenray (talk) 12:30, 2 July 2018 (UTC)