* Purple Man appearance (Zebediah Killgrave)

One evening, Spider-Man is hanging upside-down from a cornice taking pictures of an automobile accident. As usual, his rent is late and he needs to sell something to the Daily Bugle. The rammed car is a purple Rolls-Royce, and the other is driven by two unsavory characters who emerge and start to threaten the Rolls driver. Suddenly interested, Spider-Man watches the Rolls driver, clad in purple, order the thugs to unhand him and to beat each other into unconsciousness. As they start battling, Spider-Man swoops down to investigate and grabs the Rolls driver Then he discovers to his surprise that the driver's skin as well as his clothes is purple. The purple man suggests that Spider-Man climb a lamppost, and he does so without hesitation. Then he tells him to recite some Shakespeare. But Spider-Man does not remember much Shakespeare, so the purple man allows him to sing some Elvis Costello. With the crimefighter hanging from the street lamp warbling "Oliver's Army" and Scudd and his partner pummeling each other, the purple-man calmly walks to their car and finds several packages of heroin scattered about. Evidently the criminals were making a narcotics delivery worth perhaps thousands of dollars, he muses. Another man might steal the stuff, he continues, but money means nothing to Killgrave, the Purple Man. Then, after telling the battling thugs and Spider-Man to forget he was ever there, the Purple Man walks away. Sometime later, Hildy, a secretary, tells her boss, the Kingpin, about the lost heroin shipment. The police confiscated it before his men could get there, she says. Annoyed, because the shipment was worth six million dollars, he decides to learn more about the owner of the purple Rolls-Royce. So he orders one of his henchmen, a white-haired man named Heinrich, to bring him in. Meanwhile, the two thugs cannot explain to a mystified Lt. Nick Manolis at the local police station why they were beating each other up for two hours on Fifth Avenue. Daredevil enters through a window and says that it is the work of the Purple Man, one of his old foes.

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