Great Gambonnos

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Great Gambonnos
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Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Amazing Spider-Man #16 (Sep 1964)
Created by	Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
In story information
Alter ego	Ernesto and Luigi Gambonno
Team affiliations	Circus of Crime The Masters of Menace
Notable aliases	Kings of the High Trapeze The Flying Gambonnos

The Great Gambonnos are fictional characters in the Marvel Universe.

[edit] Fictional character biography

Ernesto and Luigi Gambonno were born in Milan, Italy. They are acrobats and aerialists that work for the criminal organization, the Circus of Crime. They are identical twins and though they think of themselves as the "Kings of the High Trapeze", they are defeated pretty easily with other's Circus of Crime by Spider-Man and Daredevil who prove to be superior acrobats to the both of them.

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. 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. They are rejoin's the Ringmaster when he tries to lure Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch into the group.

And so it goes for them against Namor, the Shroud, the Hulk again, the She-Hulk, Power Pack, Ben Reilly, Spider-Man, Howard the Duck, Generation X, Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy.

The Gambonnos (alongside Ringmaster and the Clown) were among the villains in Hammerhead's unnamed villian army when Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. raided their hideout.^[1]

[edit] Powers and abilities

Ernesto and Luigi Gambonno have no super human powers; they are however, expert acrobats and aerialists.

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