BIOGRAPHY - page 2
Jen was concerned about her inability to control her transformations into She-Hulk, and what other consequences the gamma radiation might have for her biology. As a med student, Zapper offered to take a sample of her blood and have it analyzed. Jen’s next case was as legal advisor to RoXXon Oil Company. “Big Oil” was making the dubious claim that their oil was vanishing from their refineries without a trace, a claim the public struggled to believe in the midst of an ongoing energy crisis. Morris Walters and the Sheriff’s Department tried to guard RoXXon’s refineries, only for the oil to disappear under their watch as well. Jen did her own investigating and received a tip from Lou Monkton. She discovered Nick Trask had assumed control of the Silver Serpent, another Stark surplus vehicle which he was using to steal from RoXXon and establish his own oil racket. Monkton had been Trask’s prisoner for weeks, but managed to get word to Walters, who followed the Serpent underground as She-Hulk. She rescued Monkton from the Serpent’s cockpit and damaged the tunneling vehicle so it was driven out of control. The Silver Serpent burrowed down towards the core of the Earth with Trask still inside, never to be heard from again. [Savage She-Hulk #5]
All the Stark technology that kept showing up in Trask’s pocket led Jen to believe Stark International was in bed with the mob. She worked through Buck to be named special prosecutor in a case against Tony Stark. Meanwhile, Tony Stark himself came out west at the behest of Jacob Fox’s widow, who wanted to know what happened to her husband while he was driving for Stark. Iron Man made contact with Morris Walters and learned the sheriff still believed She-Hulk responsible for murdering Fox. Because of all this, Jen Walters and Tony Stark each thought the worst of each other in both their identities by the time they met. Iron Man had a run in with She-Hulk, but they stopped fighting once he realized she was far more articulate than the average Hulk. “Shellhead” gave “Shulkie” the chance to prove her innocence, and they recovered the 
destroyed Stark robot. Stark realized Jacob Fox must have been dirty and delivered the shipment to Trask. However, during the hearing that followed, he refused to implicate a dead man and besmirch Fox’s widow’s memory of her husband. Jen was furious at Stark stonewalling her in court, but her private investigations into Trask’s old gang uncovered the truth independently. She apologized to Stark before he left for New York and together they helped Mrs. Fox through her grief. [Savage She-Hulk #6]
Jen found her She-Hulk identity increasingly troublesome, as she started transforming with only minor provocations. After She-Hulk escaped a police dragnet thanks to the intervention of one Richard Rory, she met with him as Jen Walters and arranged a date. They hit it off and Jen learned Rory had recently struck it rich at a Las Vegas casino after a lifetime of bad luck. Rory had led an interesting life and had even befriending the macabre Man-Thing, who lived in the swamps near Citrusville, Florida. At Rory’s invitation, Jen flew with him to Florida to act as his attorney, as Rory hoped to buy the swampland where Man-Thing lived and make it a preserve to protect the creature. While surveying the land alone, Jen was attacked by gators and transformed into She-Hulk. She was surprised to discover a civilization built around the legendary Fountain of Youth 
hidden away in the Everglades. Invited into La Hacienda, Jen learned the people had embraced immortality at the cost of truly living, for tension and exertion counteracted the Fountain’s effects. She convinced La Hacienda’s people to reclaim their spirit of living and destroy the Fountain. After helping Rory acquire the swampland and his own radio station, Jen bid good-bye to her newfound lover and returned to Los Angeles. [Savage She-Hulk #7-8]
Zapper picked Jen up from the airport with news that he was having her blood sample discreetly analyzed by friends at UCLA. However, young Zapper had always had a crush on his former babysitter. He was beginning to feel jealous that she confided in him while spending time with Richard Rory. His efforts to badmouth Rory to Jen only triggered her anger and a transformation into She-Hulk. Only afterwards did he learn from Doctor Michael Morbius that Jen’s blood sample showed signs of fatal cellular breakdown. Zapper tried to impress upon Jen the urgency of her situation the next day, but she was caught up in a new case trying to help parents retrieve their adult son from a cult run by “the Word.” The trial led Jen into a battle with the Word’s powerful daughter Ultima as She-Hulk, and the increasingly weakened She-Hulk collapsed in an alleyway after the fight. [Savage She-Hulk #9-10]
Her strength drained by her disease, She-Hulk was captured by sheriff’s deputies and held at her father’s jail. She managed to escape and stole Buck Bukowski’s car out from under him outside the jail. She-Hulk made her way to UCLA to meet with Zapper and Morbius. Doctor Morbius had once suffered a degenerative blood disease of his own, and his attempt at a cure turned him into 
a Living Vampire for years. His curse was eventually reversed and Morbius was allowed to further his work at UCLA while awaiting trial for his crimes. He successfully brewed a serum to cure Jen’s blood disease, which also had the side effect of enabling her to transform back and forth to She-Hulk purely by force of will.
Buck Bukowski inadvertently tracked Jen to UCLA and mistakenly assumed she was meeting with Morbius to become his attorney for trial. Thinking it was a mistake on her part, Buck leaked the news to the media in the hopes that public humiliation would force her to back down. Instead, his actions only pushed Jen into accepting Morbius’ case, despite her father’s fury over her defending a mass murderer. At trial, Jen supported Morbius’ decision to plead guilty to the murders he committed. Instead, she only argued mitigation for his crimes by explanation of the uncontrollable 
hunger his need for blood imposed upon his mind. After a demonstration to the jury simulating Morbius’ condition in lab rabbits, they accepted Jen’s argument. Morbius was found guilty on lesser charges and his sentence was suspended due to his continuing sickness and society’s need for his medical research. It was a major court victory for Jen against Buck, but she was practically disowned by her father as a result. [Savage She-Hulk #11-12]
Jen may have found changing into She-Hulk physically easier after Morbius’ treatment, but the psychological gap between her two sides began to widen. Jen had always been more aggressive and impulsive as She-Hulk, but now her two halves were beginning to have widely different opinions and attitudes. This divide started to show when She-Hulk became involved in the fate of Other Realm, a world in the Microverse. Richard Rory first received messages from the realm’s protector, Stargod, through his radio station, but he accidentally destroyed his equipment trying to amplify the signal. He sold off his station and returned to Los Angeles to reunite with Jen. Richard became Jen’s live-in boyfriend just as Zapper actively began declaring his feelings for Jen, only to be put off by Rory’s presence.
She-Hulk met Hellcat of the Defenders in alliance with the heroes of Other Realm as they tried to prevent their world from collapsing into a black hole. When Lambert the wizard tried transporting She-Hulk to Other Realm, she became caught in the space between and met Stargod, the Earth mortal John Jameson empowered by Other Realm’s Godstone. Working together, they arrested Other Realm’s collapse and returned She-Hulk to Earth. She-Hulk found Zapper sulking after finding Rory at Jen’s house. However, while Jen Walters enjoyed Rory’s company and thought Zapper was too young for her, the She-Hulk preferred the carefree med student over Rory and returned Zapper’s declaration of love. [Savage She-Hulk #13-14]
Jen and She-Hulk’s contrary affections for Rory and Zapper kept the love triangle in a state of chaos. Jen struggled to maintain her practice while juggling two boyfriends and a double life on the side. She remained estranged from her father, who only saw the worst in his daughter and her choice of cases. Morris’ new girlfriend Beverly Cooper also made toxic efforts to further separate father and daughter. She pressured Morris to sell the family home out from under Jen, teaching his daughter a lesson and allowing Beverly to secretly pocket the money from the sale. [Savage She-Hulk #15-16]
Sheriff Walters and Buck Bukowski were still hot to execute their warrant on the She-Hulk. Even though Iron Man helped clear She-Hulk of the murders performed by Trask’s robot, they maintained She-Hulk was responsible for the death of Jill Stephens. Still, when a hydraulics specialist named Manfred Ellsworth Haller offered to use his power suit to capture She-Hulk, the sheriff refused to glorify vigilante tactics and insisted She-Hulk be captured under the law. Meanwhile, Buck’s forensics review of Jen Walters’ car gave him the bad news that the vehicle had been tampered with and was out of control at the time of impact. Buck finally realized the truth 
that his hot-dogging heroics prevented She-Hulk from saving Jill’s life that day, and the woman’s death was on his conscience. Haller had gone ahead with his Man-Elephant power suit, calling out She-Hulk on the news to face him in combat. She-Hulk intended to avoid him, but Man-Elephant provoked a fight with her anyway. She-Hulk beat the Man-Elephant as the sheriff and A.D.A. called off their warrant, though She-Hulk was hardly grateful towards them for finally realizing the truth. [Savage She-Hulk #17]
Jen soon discovered her father was selling their family home and the realtor’s asking price was higher than she could pay. Lou Monkton returned and asked Jen to defend him in a suit by the trucker’s union when a worker was hurt at his warehouse. His fee was enough to cover the down payment on the house. When the case was rushed to trial, however, Jen learned Monkton was running a scam with the union. He intended her to lose so his insurance had to pay out, and the money would be split by him and the union. Jen tore up his check and won Monkton’s case for him anyway, but that meant she lacked the funds to cover her down payment. She wrote her father a letter explaining the situation, but Beverly destroyed the letter and left Morris believing his irresponsible daughter wrote him a bad check. [Savage She-Hulk #18]
As things became harder for Jen Walters, she retreated further into her She-Hulk identity. She started spending more time with Zapper than Rory, but Zapper was being pressured at UCLA. His friend Ralphie Hutchins had done the initial blood work on Jen as a favor, and realized the sample came from She-Hulk. Ralphie and the UCLA doctor he worked for convinced Zapper that She-Hulk’s genetic material was a gold mine of data that could cure cancer and work other wonders. Zapper delivered She-Hulk to Ralphie and the doc, who gassed her and took her prisoner. The unnamed doctor’s true goal, however, was to create an army of genetic mutations to conquer mankind. She-Hulk broke free, and Doc injected Ralphie with an untested serum, mutating him 
into a plastic-like Brute. She-Hulk scattered the Brute’s malleable mass, but the doctor escaped. Back home, Jen learned Richard Rory had known all along she was She-Hulk but, before they could discuss it, she received an eviction notice from her father. In her rage, Jen retreated into her She-Hulk identity, and was in no mood when the guilty Zapper showed up trying to explain. A furious She-Hulk trashed the house and abandoned her life as Jen Walters, once and for all, leaving Rory and Zapper behind too. [Savage She-Hulk #19-20]
Despite her new self-interested lifestyle, She-Hulk was unable to remain completely carefree. A new figure named Shade intended to take over the L.A. mob scene and eliminating She-Hulk was his method of proving himself to the other bosses. She-Hulk was drawn into an arena to fight Shade’s enforcer, the Seeker. She managed to win by tricking Seeker into collapsing a building on himself. The UCLA doctor was apparently providing Shade with hitmen through his genetic mutation experiments, and they next sent a super-villain named Radius against her, followed by a third figure called Torque. A furious She-Hulk sought out her tormentors, and Lou Monkton directed her towards Shade’s secret estate. [Savage She-Hulk #21-23]
In the California hills, She-Hulk discovered all was not as it seemed. She met a horde of disfigured genetic mutations, the cast-offs from the doctor’s illegal experiments, including a boy named Kyr able to induce pain on command. The doctor was the true force behind her attacks, as Shade was 
merely another of his mutates in disguise, used as a puppet figure among the underworld. The doctor hoped to seize control over all life on Earth using an organic simulator, but inadvertently gave life to the soil itself, creating Earth-Lord. She-Hulk struggled with Earth-Lord until Kyr stepped between them. The feedback between Kyr and Earth-Lord ended the threat, and also revealed that Kyr and all of She-Hulk’s recent foes had been furthering mutations of the same man, Ralphie Hutchins.
As she engaged in final battle with the insane doctor, Jen’s friends and family came to her aid. Rory and Zapper told Sheriff Walters that Jen was She-Hulk, and he finally realized Bev had been lying to him and threw her out. They and Lou Monkton found She-Hulk at Shade’s estate in battle 
with the doctor’s mutates and his murder machine. With their help, She-Hulk defeated the doctor and turned him over to the authorities. She-Hulk forgave the men in her life and recognized she was not alone in the world and still needed others. However, even after briefly changing back to Jen, she decided she preferred herself as She-Hulk more. She-Hulk broke up with Rory and agreed to work alongside her father fighting for the law when it suited her. [Savage She-Hulk #24-25]