The Purple Man is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Joe Orlando, the character first appeared in Daredevil #4 (1964) as an adversary of the superhero Daredevil, though he later became and endured as the archenemy of Jessica Jones. The Purple Man is the alias of Zebediah Killgrave, a Croatian spy who is exposed to chemicals that turn his skin purple and give him the ability to produce pheromones that allow him to control people's minds and actions through verbal suggestion.