Originally Posted by
bardbrain
When was Jessica Jones' career as Jewel? A bit of analysis...
I realize Bendis is ALWAYS hazy with timelines but...
Jessica was in Peter Parker's high school class. Meaning she graduated circa the comics released in 1965 and had to discover her powers before that.
The first super-villain she fought was Scorpion. Scorpion was wearing a costume closer to what he wore in ASM 29 (1965) than what he wore in Captain America #122 (1970) and was committing a petty theft, as opposed to his somewhat grander crimes in 1970.
My best guess is that she debuted sometime after the wedding of Reed and Sue Richards and probably circa the first coming of Galactus and the Kooky Quartet era of the Avengers but before The Vision debuted, Havok or Polaris joined the X-Men, and Kree-Skrull War.
We can infer that she was freed from The Purple Man circa Avengers #177 based on Jocasta's presence on the team and the reference to just returning from space (The Korvac Saga).
As to the length of the Purple Man's control, I guess it depends on whether you take the 8 months literally or in Marvel Time. Classically in Marvel Time (at five years to one), that places her abduction by Purple Man roughly concurrent with Giant Size X-Men #1 and the Jackal cloning Spider-Man. I kind of buy that as it represented a period of the Marvel Universe getting darker with the main problem being that Carol Danvers recognized Jessica and didn't debut as Ms. Marvel until 1977. That strikes me as where you have to treat the timeline as hazy since there's barely time for 8 REAL LIFE months between Carol's debut as Ms. Marvel and Jessica's recovery. Then again, I think there's relatively little issue backdating Carol's origin.
However, I don't think you can interpret Jessica's "four year" career as Jewel to be four REAL WORLD years because it's too tied to Spider-man's timeline. IMHO, she had to have been active well before 1974.
Thoughts?