Joel Spurlock

"Spurlock is going to eat the charge and take the years. He won't testify. He'd be his own client."

Joel Spurlock is an undertaker working in Harlem and a close ally of the Stokes Crime Family who would dispose of bodies that Cottonmouth did not want found.

Biography[]

Assisting the Stokes[]

Arranging Pop's Funeral[]

Joel Spurlock was visited by Luke Cage to discuss Pop's funeral. Upon seeing the mahogany casket with gold inlay Cage appreciated the sentiment, but thought it to be a bit much. Spurlock offered to use one of the more affordable options. When asked by Cage if he was allowed to see the body Spurlock had to decline, seeing how the body only just arrived from the Morgue and was not prepared for viewing yet. Since, according to Cage, he was the only one Pop had left he wanted to be sure that Pop was taken care of until he was able to afford the funeral. At that moment Cornell Stokes entered the room, telling Cage that is has all been taken care of. Spurlock stood by them while the two were having a conversation, before being asked to leave the room.^[1]

Disposing of Corpses[]

Later that day Spurlock and Cornell Stokes, while standing next to the body of Pop were discussing his funeral. The two of them turned around to look at the body of Tone, who Stokes had to let go. Stokes handed Spurlock a bag of money and reminded him that the body could not exist, after which Spurlock asked what body Stokes was talking about.

That evening, following the death of Chico Diaz, Spurlock was also tasked with taking care of his body.^[1]

State of the Union[]

Spurlock was called by Zip, who told him that Cornell Stokes was going to need his services to take care of Koko. Moments earlier Koko was killed when, during a meeting between Stokes, his accountant and some of his gang members, he triggered Stokes into killing him.^[2]

Cremating Mariah Stokes[]

"Do you want the usual bells and whistles? Mahogany and gold?"
"Just cremate her. I don't care about her ashes."
"Uh, as you wish, Ms. Stokes."
"The last Stokes just died. It's Johnson. Tilda Johnson."

―Joel Spurlock and Tilda Johnson^[src]

Being given the body of deceased inmate Mariah Stokes, Spurlock spoke with her next-of-kin Tilda Johnson about what he should do with the corpse. After being informed to cremate her and to do anything with the ashes as well as being corrected on Johnson's name, he apologized to Stokes before covering her face with the sheet.^[3]