Real Name: Carmine Falcone
Occupation: Mob Boss
Marital Status: Single
Base of Operations: Gotham City
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Hair: Gray
First Appearance: Batman #404 (Spring 1941)
Created By: Frank Miller

Falcone is a major gangster with the Police Commissioner under his influence. However, his power base comes under attack by the new mysterious vigilante, Batman. Despite Police Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb's assurances that the new opponent may be a long term benefit, Falcone was still worried about him. That concern was justified by Batman's bold assault on a dinner party attended by himself, the commissioner and other corrupt high society members of the city to announce that they will be delivered to justice.

After that incident and despite Commissioner Loeb's desperate attempts to stop him, Batman's attacks on Falcone's organization become even more brazen such as one time when Batman had his car was dumped into the river, invaded his home, assaulted him, stripped him to his underwear, and left him hogtied to his bed. That humiliation prompts Falcone gives orders to have Batman killed, but he is too elusive, and Falcone is later assaulted by Catwoman with some assistance by the caped crusader.

Finally, Falcone orders the notoriously honest police detective, Jim Gordon's wife and child kidnapped to bring him to heel, but the plot is in part foiled by the Gordons while Batman rescues their child. The act of saving his wife and baby is what convinces Gordon that Batman is truly on his side. Eventually, Harvey Dent and Jim Gordon's investigations, with some secret assistance by Batman, yield results which lead to Loeb being forced to resign, Gordon being promoted to Lieutenant, and Falcone's power being put under threat by the new opposition he now faces.

At A Later time a serial killer named Holiday targeted Gotham's crime families, with particular attention paid to the Falcone family. While fighting the criminal justice system, Falcone is desperately trying to get a grip on his once-powerful empire, and he resorts to hiring "freaks" in the form of what becomes Batman's Rogues Gallery. Falcone's son, Alberto, confessed to all of the Holiday killings, as he wanted his father to accept him into the family business, but it is important to note Harvey and Gilda Dent are at least somewhat responsible for them. Harvey Dent was in fact the initial suspect, and the suspiscions directed toward him were in part responsible for the accident in which he became Two-Face. While Falcone played a large role in The Long Halloween, he was killed in the end, shot in the head by Two-Face.

Falcone's grave is robbed and his body goes missing. His finger is cut off and sent to his daughter, Sofia Gigante, the new boss of the Falcone Family. This action is described as an "old style message", signifying that someone is out to take everything away from the Falcone Family, crushing them both as a public, business organization in the crime world as well as literally killing members of the family. Not until the end it is revealed that Two-Face has Falcone's body, having frozen it using Mr. Freeze's cryogenic technology.