Alias is a comic book series created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos. It was published by Marvel Comics under Marvel's MAX imprint for a total of 28 issues from 2001 to 2004.
Alias was written by Bendis and illustrated for most of its run by Michael Gaydos, with covers by David Mack. Characters from the series moved to Brian Michael Bendis' subsequent series The Pulse.
The protagonist of Alias is Jessica Jones, a former c...
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Alias is a comic book series created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos. It was published by Marvel Comics under Marvel's MAX imprint for a total of 28 issues from 2001 to 2004.
Alias was written by Bendis and illustrated for most of its run by Michael Gaydos, with covers by David Mack. Characters from the series moved to Brian Michael Bendis' subsequent series The Pulse.
The protagonist of Alias is Jessica Jones, a former costumed superhero named Jewel who left that avocation to become a private investigator. The running thread is Jessica's character development, as the layers of her past and personality are revealed to the reader while, simultaneously, she tries to come to terms with them herself.
Alias was one of the titles that launched Marvel's "R-Rated" MAX imprint, and was reported to have been one of the reasons the imprint was created. Marvel Publishing President Bill Jemas read a draft of the script for the first issue of Alias (which,...
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