Just over a month from now , Marvel ’s next TV show debuts , featuring Jessica Jones . But who is Jessica ? She ’s not as well bed as Daredevil or the Agents of SHIELD , even though she spent some time as an Avenger in the comics . So here ’s everything you postulate to know about Marvel ’s most superheroic detective .
AKA Jessica Campbell
Jessica Jones made her debut in the comic Alias by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos in November 2001 , one of the first launching comics of Marvel ’s new , R - blackleg comics imprint MAX — but Alias began with Jessica not as a superhero , but a individual investigator , working around the outskirt of New York ’s superhero scene and work out cases . Over the course of the comic ’s 28 issues , Bendis and Gaydos slowly peel back layers of Jessica ’s history , including her superhero stock . And we learn how she began as Jessica Campbell .
Jessica ’s birth parent were kill in the same stroke that granted her superhuman abilities : a chemical spillage during a car crash that left her in a coma for months . After being orphan and taken in by the Jones family , Jessica ’s powers — superhuman strength , flight , and limited impregnability — began to emerge . She kept her baron secret however , until she saw Spider - Man battle Sandman at her High School ( not knowing that Spider - Man was her classmate and mellow school puppy love , Peter Parker ) , and this put her on the way of life to superhero - dom .
AKA Jewel
Jessica ’s first superhero identity was Jewel , and she had a minor vocation as a superhero of small renown . By the time Alias begins , Jessica has already given up her life history as Jewel , and sports fan had to wait for the final spark of the serial publication — The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones — to find just why . For this plot line , Bendis revived an as obscure funny fiber for Jewel to go up against .
One of the major limitations of MAX as an imprint was that , although its comics took place in the main Marvel Comics universe , it was heavy cut back in the type who could appear in its Thomas Nelson Page . Marvel did n’t want the simulacrum of their most iconic ( and kid - well-disposed ) heroes to be associated with the grownup substance of the MAX comics , so Jessica ’s main scoundrel — and the source of much dismay about the Netflix adjustment , wherehe’ll be played by David Tennant — was a seldom used character from the varlet of Daredevil : Zebediah Killgrave .
AKA The Purple Man
Killgrave , considerably lie with by his villain name , The Purple Man , first appeared in Daredevil # 4 in the 1960s , but had faded from Marvel Comics almost entirely by the 1980s as Daredevil himself go underwenta gritty semi - reboot — that is , until Alias .
Killgrave was a former spy who , while on a mission , was doused in a deep gas that turned his tegument purple and give him the power to overtake the minds of other people using pheromone . essentially , Killgrave could get people to obey his every mastery . Adopting the Purple Man cognomen , Killgrave turned to violent crime : most infamously his kidnap and genial straining of Jewel .
She attacked the Scarlet Witch ( misidentify her crimson costume for Daredevil ’s ) , and with the Avengers unfamiliar with her vocation as Jewel — and incognizant that she was under Killgrave ’s control — they attacked Jessica savagely , as she render to take flight the Mansion . Only the pleas of then - Ms. Marvel Carol Danvers got the team to discontinue attacking her , but they left Jessica in a comatoseness .
AKA Jessica Jones
When she come alive from her comatoseness , Jessica undergo psychical therapy with Jean Grey to ensure Killgrave could never hold in her again — but Jessica was still traumatise , and horrified with the world of superheroics . The violation she ’d endured at the hand of Killgrave , combine with the fact that no superhero cared enough about her to realize she was missing for virtually a year , saw her throwing away the Jewel persona and become the P.I. we met at the start of Alias .
But by the fourth dimension Jessica ’s origins had been revealed , Bendis and Gaydos were more and more queer at the confinement placed upon Alias at MAX . Alias come to an end , and the team make for Jessica and its cast of character over to a young on-going serial publication , The Pulse , in 2004 . Instead of a Private Investigator , Jessica was now a extra consultant for The Daily Bugle ’s “ Pulse ” section , which focused on superhero - related history . At the same time , Jessica entered a attached family relationship with Luke Cage , a confidant and sometimes - escort who had come along throughout Alias , culminating in a relationship that began after Jessica became pregnant with Cage ’s nestling .
AKA Jewel… Again
During the height of Civil War , Jessica base herself at betting odds with her hubby , who joined Captain America ’s anti - registration Secret Avengers — while she pick out to register , so she could keep their daughter safe instead of going on the run . in short after , during the Skrull Invasion , Danielle was nobble , finally sparking Jessica to return to the superhero identity of Jewel , so she could inspire and protect her child . As Jewel , Jessica became a major member of the New Avengers during the 2010 New Avengers comic series … but her original name did n’t last long .
AKA Power Woman
Just eight issues afterward , to honor her husband ’s fighter name of Power Man , Jessica ditch Jewel ’s personal identity altogether and became Power Woman . She served with the New Avengers for two geezerhood , but the drawbacks of a superhero life bewitch up with her once more .
Although Danielle was kept well guarded at the Avengers Mansion ( by Squirrel Girl , acting as the nestling ’s nanny at the behest of Cage and Jones ) , finally the tenseness of possible threat on the Mansion led to Jessica retiring yet again — much to the humiliation of Luke , although her husband eventually relented . The pair left Avengers Mansion and the New Avengers team altogether , proceed to New York to start a newfangled life together … before Cage , to Jessica ’s displeasure , began his own Avengers spinoff group , the Mighty Avengers . This fourth dimension , however , Jessica Jones - Cage decided not to join him , only to declare oneself support while she seem after Danielle .
AKA Jessica Jones… Again
The Mighty Avengers , feature Jessica in a underpin role , bear on up until this year ’s Secret Wars , and the eventual reboot of the Marvel Comics Universe in “ All - New , All - Different”—but both Jessica and her married man have yet to be seen in any of the 60 upcoming laughable serial be after as part of Marvel ’s openhanded reboot .
It ’s backbreaking to narrate where Jessica ’s rocky calling as a superhero and female parent will take her next : but with both Jessica Jones and Luke Cage heading to Netflix within the next 12 months , it would n’t be surprising to see her inscribe the glare again . Perhaps she ’ll be following the format of the TV serial and returning to her individual investigator ascendent once more , 14 years after Alias hit ledge .
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