How Old Would Mobster Benjamin

Did the Mafia always distinguish between soldiers and civilians when going to the mattresses?

Look, “the mafia" is not like Macy's or DuPont. It's a generic term given to relatively small bands of criminals and some may be more ritualized or bureaucratic than others. Wars between rival gangs usually include only other men involved with criminal activity but there is nothing sacred among these people. There's no law beyond “the commission," a loosely connected organization made up of the dons and their consiglieres of various gangs in a city or state or general area, to approve conduct when carrying out murders. Most of these people have fairly serious mental problems. There's a reason they called Benjamin Siegel “Bugsy” and Joe Gallo “Crazy.” Both of these men bucked the commission and died rather spectacularly as a result.Selwyn Raab's breakdown of the gangland hierarchy refers specifically to New York's Cosa Nostra and the off-shoots of it in other cities. It may not be the same for The Outfit in Chicago, for example. The way the Bananno family does things is not exactly the same way the Genovese family works although technically both are part of Cosa Nostra.While we have Joseph Bonanno's strikingly candid autobiography, Man of Honor which we must assume, at least regarding the layout of his organization, is more or less accurate. We also have the remarkable recording of Robert DeLuca’s initiation into the Patriarca family, the Cosa Nostra off-shoot in Rhode Island. As to whether these records are representative of any other criminal groups we simply don't know. Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather is fiction. While it has long been supposed that it was based on real events you can be absolutely certain that there has never been a mafia capo as honest, forthright, scrupulous and well-intentioned as Don Corleone.

Is Joker older than Batman?

Joker's age is never directly mentioned in the comic books. The common notion is that Joker is much older than Wayne, probably stemming from the TV show and the 1989 movie, however it seems like they're the same age. The idea of Joker being older than Batman might also come from the fact that the artwork often depicted Joker as someone looking like an aged man in late 30's or early 40's, or the idea alone that he's a gangster and a leader of mobsters in the Golden and Silver eras, something that usually seasoned, older gangsters could be.Let's again start with the genesis of the character. Joker's appearance was based on Conrad Veidt's character from the movie "The Man Who Laughs", which is a nice way of saying that Bob Kane simply drew the character on paper without any changes. Kane was a self proclaimed copycat and the Joker was virtually the Veidt character with green hair