Fiorello La Guardia (Earth-616)

Fiorello La Guardia
Name	Fiorello La Guardia
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Republican Party
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Black
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Mayor of New York City
Base of Operations	New York City, New York
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Paul Gustavson
First	Marvel Comics #1 (August, 1939)
First	Marvel Comics #1 (August, 1939)

Fiorello La Guardia was a politician and best known as a mayor of New York City.

History

Fiorello La Guardia's earliest recorded appearance was during a public appearance in 1934 to dedicate the opening of a new building. Unknown to La Guardia he was targeted for assassination during this appearance. This attempt was later foiled by Doc Savage and his Fabulous Five.

In 1939, the city of New York was being terrorized by a gang calling themselves the Six Big Men. La Guardia swore in a group of what he believed to be upstanding citizens to be part of a special investigation into the group. La Guardia was unaware that Dr. Horace Lang was secretly the Six Big Men's leader. The gang was later decimated by the costumed vigilante known as Angel. A year later, La Guardia's office sanctioned the android Human Torch as a New York Police. The mayor also threatened to call the National Guard to deal with the threat of the Sub-Mariner. Such threats were met with mockery and laughter from the undersea monarch, which prompted the New York City Police Department to send the Human Torch after him. The Torch and Sub-Mariner later fought across New York, but eventually Namor was convinced to cease his hostilities toward the city.

In 1944, during World War II, Nazi supercriminal Baron Blood managed to build a primitive fission bomb, combining the Nazi project with information stolen from US's Manhattan Project, and threatened to detonate it in New York City lest the United States retreated their troops from Africa and Great Britain, and started negotiations of peace with the Axis. The Mayor of New York City, who was La Guardia at that point, refused to comply, as the President and the State Governor did - instead, they resorted to superhuman agents to stop the threat, which they apparently did.

Notes

Fiorello La Guardia was a historical figure who was an American politician and best known as 99th mayor of New York City. He died of pancreatic cancer on September 20, 1947 at the age of 64. Presumably, his history on Earth-616 mirrors that of his real world counterpart. He names one of the three main airports that serve New York City.

Trivia

He was known to say "when I make a mistake, it's a whopper!", being quoted by Mr. Fantastic at least once.

See Also

• 8 appearance(s) of Fiorello La Guardia (Earth-616)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Fiorello La Guardia (Earth-616)
• 6 mention(s) of Fiorello La Guardia (Earth-616)
• 3 image(s) of Fiorello La Guardia (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Fiorello La Guardia on Wikipedia.org