If I'm lucky--if
you're lucky--I maybe was able to dig up a copy of
Marvel Triple Action #17, which reprints the first
Avengers #23. Interestingly, the MTA cover is from "an unaltered stat," since per the GCD, "The Comics Code did not approve of the original because Kang's looming arm was deemed to be too frightening to children." But, if our collective luck ran out, we've got another
Avengers #23 in reserve--"New" Avengers? Sure, like that counts! From 2006,
New Avengers #23, "New Avengers: Disassembled, part 3" Written by Brian Michael Bendis, pencils by Oliver Coipel, inks by Mark Morales.
Ugh,
Civil War trade dress, that's not a good start...I know I'm hardly the first to mention this, but so much of
Jessica Jones was taken from the
Jessica Drew Spider-Woman, that it feels like it didn't leave much for Spider-Woman? At the start of this one, Jessica is in bed in a hotel room, with beer cans in bed with her: the only thing differentiating her from Jones is, there's only two cans, and she crawls on the wall to answer the door. It's Nick Fury, who says he found her since she registered for the room as "
Sybil Dvorak," and he was out from underground because of the ongoing superhero Civil War. Jessica zaps him in the back with her venom blast, which does nothing; since it's an LMD: she can tell by the smell and knows it's Maria Hill controlling it. Maria admits, she was fishing for some info, and maybe a smidge of reasonable doubt that Jess wasn't a traitor...(Jessica had a better sense of smell than a regular person: maybe not as good as Daredevil or Wolverine, but good enough to recognize the LMD. Although, it's fun to think the LMD literally does just smell like a pile of tires.)
Brought in by S.H.I.E.L.D. in about its least friendly phase, Maria says Tony Stark told her Jessica was a triple-agent. Iron Man seems down on her, just because Captain America had believed in her, and he was steamed at Cap. Before Jessica can even finish complaining, the lights go out, Tony's suit freezes up, and the Helicarrier lurches to the side, as HYDRA attacks to get Jessica! Maria is shot a few times, which just seems to knock her down; and as Jess is retrieved a random HYDRA guy scolds Tony, this is what war profiteering gets you, so nyah. S.H.I.E.L.D. barely manages to keep the 'carrier from crashing into Rhode Island, although a few jets may have fallen off and onto a city...
This time, Jessica wakes up on HYDRA Island, offered a cup of tea by a guy she calls Connelly. He's a little disappointed the Helicarrier didn't crash, especially since the EMP they used was a one-off they wouldn't be able to use against S.H.I.E.L.D. again. Still, it was worth it to get Jessica back, since he wanted to pitch her on not just joining HYDRA, but taking over as the new leader. She'd be more stable than Viper, and since her folks were HYDRA she was like a legacy. Jessica appears to consider that, for about two seconds--not even the traditional three--before beating the crap out of Connelly, the guards, and the island, racing away from a massive explosion in a speedboat. (We don't actually get to see Jessica do all the cool stuff to blow up the island, I don't think that fight scenes and action sequences were Bendis's strong suit.) On the last page, Cap is surprised when Jessica shows up at the secret resistance base: she had been looking for Nick Fury, but begs to join, crying, that she had nowhere else to go. I think that's the only page of the issue where she's not in her underwear.
I've mentioned my sister had a subscription to Spider-Woman when I was a kid, and I think her powers were much, much more limited back then; like she could only use her venom blast like once a day or an hour or something. (Jessica, not my sister...) It might be easy to forget she was super-strong, too; since she wasn't usually the pick-up-a-car type. But I've been watching Bond movies all this week, and Jessica's powers would make about any of them into easy mode!
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