Daredevil #6 (618)

(July 2019)

No Devils, Only God Part 1 (Table of Contents: 1)

Daredevil / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Chip Zdarsky (credited)

Pencils

Lalit Kumar Sharma (credited)

Inks

Jay Leisten (credited)

Colors

Java Tartaglia (credited)

Letters

Clayton Cowles of Virtual Calligraphy (credited as VC's Clayton Cowles)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

--Don't know why we need to open at eight...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Janet; Marcus; Mr. Kaplan; Detective Cole North; Detective Higgins; Sammy; Edmund; Kingpin [Wilson Fisk]; Wesley Welch; Mindy Libris; Tamara; Keith; Detective Elias; Detective Henry; Detective Martinez; Detective Bolton

Synopsis

Janet and Marcus open their watch shop across from the Marcus' party shop and it is guarded by one of The Owl's thugs. Cole still has it in for Daredevil but gets beat up by other detectives protecting Daredevil. At the last moment, an Owl thug kills all the detectives except for Cole. The Kingpin is still stewing over Daredevil. Matt is recovered from his injuries and now works as a parole officer. Janet is in Kaplan's shop in a back aisle looking at a Daredevil costume when the Owl's thugs attack Kaplan.

Reprints

• in Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 - No Devils, Only God (2019)
• in Demolidor (Panini Brasil, 2020 series) #2 - A paz de Deus (agosto 2020)
• in Daredevil (Panini France, 2020 series) #2 - Aucun diable, juste un dieu (octobre 2020)

Keywords

bookstores; Charles Dickens; Hell's Kitchen; organized crime; protection rackets

Indexer Notes

The bookshop owner's name Libris is Latin for 'library'. Dicken's 'Bleak House' that Matt is looking for is of interest to lawyers as an early fictional case study in law.