History: (Spider-Man Team-Up#5/1 (fb) ) - After leaving Salt Lake City during his five years of wandering, Ben Reilly, the clone of Spider-Man, found himself in the French Quarter of New Orleans, where he befriended shopkeeper Nellie. After a few days working for room and board, Ben watched while Nellie was visited by corrupt Officer Creaux for a "protection" shakedown; having previously killed Nellie's son, Creaux threatened her until Ben intervened. During their fight, Ben knocked Creaux into a display case, and the glass blinded Creaux in his left eye. In a fury, Creaux used his powder to paralyze Ben, only to be fought back by Nellie and subsequently taken in by the New Orleans Public Integrity Department (a version of Internal Affairs), arriving in response to a phone call from Nellie.

Nellie used her own knowledge of voodoo, inherited from her mother, to cure Ben, who left New Orleans shortly thereafter. It is not known what became of Creaux after that, although he eventually ended up in New York (ironically, during the same general timeframe as when Ben Reilly arrived in New York) in the employ of the superhuman gangster Tombstone. Creaux approached Jaques St. Pierre, owner of the nightclub N'Awlins (and friend of the X-Man Gambit), about using small doses of his powder to addict his clientele under Tombstone's drug trade; St. Pierre refused.