A major Marvel character surprisingly retires and literally sails off into the sunset
As we often say here at Newsarama, death in superhero comic books is only a temporary condition ...
... but what about retirement? Yeah, that's probably temporary too. Nevertheless, a major, high-profile Marvel Comics character surprisingly retired this week, and as you can see from the image above, sailed off into the sunset.
But for reals.
So who collected their Marvel gold watch and started deducting from their comic book 401k account? Well, that would be spoiling the story, now wouldn't it?
Yes ... it would.
Okay, still with us?
In a surprise move, Wilson Fisk, AKA the Kingpin of Crime and Mayor of New York City has abdicated the throne and left his NYC criminal empire in the hands of his son, Butch, as well as was removed as Mayor. He then sailed off seeking happiness with his current love, fellow supervillain Typhoid Mary.
And he did this just days after nearly completing his plan to take over NYC using the Purple Man's mind-control power and outlawing all superheroes to operate in the city.
It all went down, of course, in April 6's Devil's Reign #6 (opens in new tab), the finale of the series.
We won't give you a blow-by-blow of the entire issue, but in the wake of Fisk murdering Matt Murdock's twin brother Mike Murdock thinking he was killing Matt/Daredevil (it's complicated), the Purple Man is defeated, and Daredevil and Fisk engage in yet another one-on-one fistfight.
Daredevil comes out on top but stops short of murdering Fisk as revenge for killing Mike.
Fisk is seemingly arrested and taken into police custody, but since this is the Kingpin, his arrest turns out to be a ruse orchestrated by his estranged son Butch, who has been learning the ropes of the criminal business from his dad.
Butch takes Fisk
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