Giuseppe Tangredi

Giuseppe Tangredi was Johnny Thumb's father. In the series not much is mentioned about Johnny's father except that he was shrewd about the business and moved his family from Sicily to New York city in 1906 after the death of his father. The move is also attributed to the fact that he and his brother were wanted by the Italian authroities.

Family
Guiseppe was born to a Sicilian family of Mafiosi in the late ninteenth century. It is presumed that his birthdate occured before the year 1883 (the year his younger brother, Giovanni was born). Circa 1897, he married Cecelia Pecci, a farmer's daughter, and together they had two sons, Luigi and Johhny. Sometime in 1908, he became engaged in an extramarital affair with a woman from Staten Island and fathered a third son, Dino Pompei, who later became one of Johnny's arch nemeses. It is never made known whether Guiseppe had knowledge of Dino's existence, but Johnny discovers Dino is his half brother by the picture of Guiseppe that Dino keeps in his dresser drawer.

Death
In 1911, Guiseppe Tangredi was killed in a scuffle with an unamed Irish street gang. The circumstances surround the death and scuffle are never reallt duscussed, however it is assumed that the incident lead to a several year long mob war between the Tangredi family and the Irish gang.