Alias (comics)

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Alias" comics – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Alias
Promotional art for cover of Alias #23 Art by David Mack and Mark Bagley
Publication information
Publisher	MAX (Marvel Comics)
Schedule	Monthly
Genre	Mystery, superhero
Publication date	September 2001 – November 2003
No. of issues	28
Main character(s)	Jessica Jones
Creative team
Created by	Brian Michael Bendis
Written by	Brian Michael Bendis
Artist(s)	Michael Gaydos
Letterer(s)	Richard Starkings Oscar Gongora Wes Abbott Cory Petit
Colorist(s)	Matt Hollingsworth
Editor(s)	Stuart Moore Kelly Lamy Nanci Quesada/Dakesian Joe Quesada
Collected editions
Omnibus	ISBN 0-7851-2121-8

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.

The protagonist of Alias is Jessica Jones, a former costumed superhero named Jewel who left that life behind 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.

Characters from the series moved to Bendis' subsequent series The Pulse. The series received generally positive reviews from critics.

Alias was the basis of the first season of the Netflix Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series Jessica Jones, which premiered in November 2015. Jessica Jones, a follow-up ongoing series to Alias created by Bendis and Gaydos as a tie-in to the television series, began publication in 2016.