Did Kingpin really murder Daredevil? Devil's Reign #5 reveals the answer
March 9's Devil's Reign #5 picks up the surprise cliffhanger from March 2's Daredevil: Woman Without Fear #3, which casually dropped the bombshell that Matt Murdock has been murdered in his apartment off-page and that the prime suspect is none other than Mayor Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin - with an editor's note pointing to the now released Devil's Reign #5 as the issue where the story of Matt's murder would be told.
Now, the truth comes out in Devil's Reign #5, and there's a bit of truth and a bit of lie in the previous spoiler of Matt Murdock's murder at the hands of Wilson Fisk. We'll break it all down right now, but be warned, you're entering spoiler territory.
Devil's Reign #5 opens with Kingpin reeling from the return of his memory of Daredevil's secret identity Matt Murdock, ordering the Thunderbolts to kidnap Purple Man's children by whatever means necessary to add their power to that of the captured Purple Man, whose mind-control abilities are being channeled into Fisk's cane, giving him some level of mesmeric power himself.
Though teen hero team the Champions intervene along with Jessica Jones, they're only able to rescue one of Purple Man's kids from being taken by the Thunderbolts and promptly drained of their power. Now empowered with overwhelming mind control abilities, Purple Man is released from captivity with Fisk sending him to mesmerize as much of the city as necessary to kill every hero still operating in New York.
Kicking Otto Octavius and his Superior Four variants out of the Baxter Building, Fisk goes on a rampage, vowing to murder Matt Murdock with his bare hands.
At the same time, Fisk's estranged son Butch argues with Mike Murdock, Matt Murdock's magically created ersatz twin brother (it's… a long
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