In this feature we spotlight the various characters, phrases, objects or events that eventually became notable parts of comic lore, like the first time someone said, "Avengers Assemble!" or the first appearance of Batman's giant penny or the first appearance of Alfred Pennyworth or the first time Spider-Man's face was shown half-Spidey/half-Peter. Stuff like that. Here is an archive of all the When We First Met features so far! Check 'em out!

With Jessica Jones debuting this weekend on Netflix, I thought it would be fun to show you all the first comic book appearances of the various characters on the show...

Jessica Jones

We first met Jessica Jones in the opening pages of the first issue of her 2001 ongoing series, Alias, by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos (the book was for "mature readers only," so skip over these pages if you have a problem with profanity)...







Luke Cage

Luke Cage made his debut in 1972's Hero for Hire #1 by Archie Goodwin, George Tuska and Billy Graham...



After we learn of how Carl Lucas was framed and sent to prison, a doctor offers to experiment on him, which will hopefully help Lucas be paroled. However, an evil prison guard interferes in the experiment and the following happens...











Patricia "Patsy" Walker (Trish on Jessicca Jones)

Patsy Walker debuted in Miss America Magazine #2 in 1944 (by Otto Binder and Ruth Atkinson)...















She remained a mainstay of Timely/Atlas/Marcel Comics until the late 1960s.

In 1972, Steve Englehart added her to the actual Marvel Universe (she had made the occasional cameo during the 1960s) in the Beast feature in Amazing Adventures #11 (by Englehart, Tom Sutton and Frank Giacoia)...





In 1975's Avengers #144 (by Steve Englehart, George Perez and Mike Esposito), Englehart paid off some of the plotlines he had introduced in Amazing Adventures by making Patsy into a superhero by giving her the suit that Greer Nelson had used as the Cat, making Patsy...the Hellcat!





Go to the next page for the supporting characters from the series and the main villain of the series...

Frank Simpson/Nuke (called Will Simpson on Jessica Jones)

Good ol' Nuke debuted in 1986's Daredevil #232 (by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli)...









Jeryn Hogarth (there is a female version of Hogarth on Jessica Jones called Jeri Hogarth)

Daniel Rand' lawyer, Jeryn Hogarth, debuted in 1976's Iron Fist #6 (by Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Frank Chiaramonte)...





Interestingly enough, just like how Jeri Hogarth is going through a divorce, Jeryn Hogarth was divorced. His ex was named Thelma, though, and he had a daughter (as shown in Power Man and Iron Fist #110 by Tony Isabella, Greg LaRocque and Brad Joyce)...



(As you can see, Hogarth went through quite a makeover over the years)

Oscar Clemons

The police detective debuted in The Punisher Vol. 284 #1 (by Greg Rucka and Marco Checchetto), investigating the wedding massacre that ended up driving much of that volume of The Punisher (as the bride in the wedding survived and sort of became Frank Castle's partner)...





Reva Connors

Luke's dead wife on Jessica Jones was also a key part of Luke's original origin in Hero for Hire #1 (by Goodwin, Tuska and Graham), but she didn't fare much better there, living-wise...











Claire Temple

Introduced in the second issue of Hero for Hire (by Archie Goodwin, George Tuska and Billy Graham), Claire Temple was a doctor working with the doctor whose experiments gave Luke Cage his powers...





Malcolm

In Alias #6 (by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos), we meet Jessica Jones' neighbor, Malcolm...









Kilgrave (The Purple Man)

Debuting in 1964's Daredevil #4 (by Stan Lee, Joe Orlando and Vince Colletta), the Purple Man is a messed up dude...













That's it for this installment!

Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com to request more comic book firsts for spotlight in this column! Travis Pelkie asked me to do one of these for Supergirl, so I'll probably do that in the next month or so (let them feature a few more characters to make it more worth it).