BIOGRAPHY - page 4
Unfortunately, Bruce Banner’s flirtation with legitimacy did not last. Jen’s cousin surrendered to the monster again and a mindless rampaging Hulk was exiled from all known planes of reality. [Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #300] She-Hulk attended a meeting at Bruce’s observatory and laboratory as a group of top minds including Reed Richards and Hank Pym sorted through Bruce’s work to determine what was useful or dangerous under government supervision. Jen was wistful about her cousin’s fate, remembering the shy bookworm who shared ice cream with her and took her to the library when they were younger. Their sorting was interrupted by Arnim Zola, the Bio-Fanatic, who used short-term genetic constructs of the Hulk to attack the laboratory. Zola was defeated, and the perspective that Bruce’s scientific legacy was being preserved helped She-Hulk move past her grief over Bruce’s departure. [Avengers Annual #13]
One afternoon, She-Hulk was tanning on the roof of the Baxter Building when a local traffic copter interrupted her day. The owner of a tawdry men’s magazine had paid off the pilot to get him close enough to take photographs, and She-Hulk was caught topless and exposed to his camera. She tracked down T.J. Vance of “The Naked Truth” and tried to intimidate him as Jen Walters, attorney-
at-law. The sleezy Vance stood by his rights, claiming She-Hulk was a public figure in the public eye when she was sunbathing, making his photos nice and legal. And pre-sales of his latest magazine had reached three million copies, giving him a tidy profit he had no interest in parting with. Jen lost her temper and transformed into She-Hulk, crushing Vance’s safe so he couldn’t get to the dirty money he’d locked inside. Still, she resigned herself to the fact that the magazine photos were being released regardless. A few weeks later, though, the final outcome was a small victory. The photos were rushed to the printers so fast, no one informed them the pictures were of a green woman, so they were color-corrected in the printing process. The final product showed a woman who was virtually unrecognizable as She-Hulk, without scale or color for reference! [Fantastic Four (1st series) #275]
The Thing eventually returned from Battleworld, leaving She-Hulk expecting her time with the Fantastic Four was over. Although only a replacement member of the team, Jen had begun to think of the FF as family and was surprised at how sad she was to depart. Ben Grimm had a falling out with Mr. Fantastic and the Human Torch, though, and as a result he refused to rejoin the 
FF, allowing She-Hulk to remain on the team. [Fantastic Four (1st series) #276-277] Their adventures continued as a new version of Doctor Doom destroyed the Baxter Building, leaving the team homeless. Thanks to She-Hulk’s connections, the FF were able to stay at Avengers Mansion until their new headquarters was built on the site of the old one. [Fantastic Four (1st series) #278-280]
When the Psycho-Man attacked New York with his emotion-manipulating technology, She-Hulk found herself facing threats she couldn’t defeat physically. A mob of normal people driven mad by the villain’s Hate-Monger android were only the first threat. They paled next to the fury of Malice, a hate-filled personality of Susan Richards shaped by the Psycho-Man. The aggressive use of Sue’s force fields was enough to defeat She-Hulk in a one-on-one fight. After freeing Sue from the villains’ control, the Fantastic Four pursued Psycho-Man back into the subatomic Microverse from which he hailed. The Psycho-Man was prepared for them and captured the team, sending She-Hulk down into the Mines of Nuvidia to work in his slave pits. His fear button left her deathly afraid of her captors, leaving Jennifer helpless to resist the forced labor they put her through. She was
found by the deposed Queen Pearla whose kingdom Psycho-Man had claimed by force. As Pearla tried to urge She-Hulk into action, they were found by the slaver Dugga. The cruel soldier impaled Pearla with his spear and intimidated She-Hulk into not resisting. As he tormented Pearla more, though, Jen broke through the emotional conditioning and stood up for her new friend. They reconnected with the rest of the Fantastic Four and Psycho-Man was exposed to his own tortuous rays, putting Pearla back on the throne. [Fantastic Four (1st series) #280-284]
One night, She-Hulk and Wyatt Wingfoot were attending a Broadway play when they were accosted in the streets by Mandroids employed by S.H.I.E.L.D. The Hulk’s recent breakdown left the government concerned about She-Hulk’s potential as a threat. Dum Dum Dugan intended to handle the situation with kid gloves, but a self-important field commander named Roger Dooley
chose to aggressively impose their orders. A wide-angle teleport beam swooped up She-Hulk, Wyatt, the Mandroids and several civilians from the street, bringing them aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Dooley further abused his authority by ordering She-Hulk to strip in front of him and the other gawking agents, “per protocols.”
Dugan arrived in time to put an end to these shenanigans, stripping Dooley of command authority and confining him to quarters. Dum Dum tried a more dignified approach to explaining the government’s concerns to She-Hulk, but Dooley unfortunately had friends in high places. Dugan was ordered away from the Helicarrier and Dooley reassumed authority. He had Wyatt kept at gunpoint in order to force She-Hulk to submit to invasive tests regarding her gamma radiation levels and physiology. Between sessions, She-Hulk and Wyatt were kept in a special cell keyed to their combined body weight, set to release cyanide gas if the scale tilted by more than a few pounds in either direction. S.H.I.E.L.D. was unaware of She-Hulk’s ability to control her
transformations, and so Jen and Wyatt exploited this information to escape. Jennifer lost several hundreds pounds as she shrank out of her She-Hulk form, becoming small enough to squeeze through the bars. Wyatt used his own considerable strength to press the equivalent of She-Hulk’s body weight against the cell’s ceiling long enough for Jen to disable the alarm’s control panel.
Wyatt was still stuck in the cell, and so Jennifer moved through the Helicarrier looking for a solution. In perhaps part of some vast conspiracy, though, one of the civilians teleported up from the streets with Wyatt and Jen had actually been an irradiated colony of sentient cockroaches hiding in a man’s skin. These cockroaches attacked Dooley and colonized his body as their next host, using his command authority to access the Helicarrier’s reactors. She-Hulk fought Dooley in the master command center, but the Helicarrier was critically damaged and crashed to the Earth below.
Gathered around the wreckage after riding out the impact, S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist Sidney Gaffer told She-Hulk the Helicarrier’s atomic pile was going critical and would threaten all life in a hundred-mile radius. It needed to be shut down manually, but the radiation levels were too high even for shielded personnel to get close enough, long enough. Gaffer’s examination of She-Hulk indicated she had a chance to last long enough to disable the reactor. With a town full of innocent people 
nearby, Jennifer agreed to help S.H.I.E.L.D. despite their antics. She breached the reactor, fought the still-living cockroach colony once more and shut down the radiation. Afterwards, Reed Richards gave She-Hulk a check-up and determined the high radiation levels had affected her physiology. She-Hulk would no longer be able to transform back into her original form. Having given up on Jennifer Walters some time earlier, She-Hulk was barely phased by the revelations. [Marvel Graphic Novel #18]
It turned out Bruce Banner was not gone forever, as the Hulk eventually made his way back to Earth. Doc Samson tried a revolutionary new treatment for him, using a gamma nutrient bath to physically separate Banner and the Hulk into different bodies. Banner was catatonic after the
procedure, and Betty Ross had She-Hulk called in as Bruce’s next-of-kin. Jennifer acted as Bruce’s medical proxy, authorizing a psycho-stimulation treatment that brought him out of his coma. [Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #316] Unfortunately for everyone, the Hulk was now left a mindless husk without Banner’s consciousness. The Hulk was unleashed on the world as a creature of instinctive rage, and Banner assembled his own team of Hulkbusters to capture or kill his other half. She-Hulk and the united East and West Coast Avengers struggled to contain the Hulk, after Jennifer confirmed for herself that there was no humanity left in the creature. In the end, however, the separation procedure proved unstable. Banner and the Hulk could not survive without each other, and so they were fused back into a single being. [Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #321-323]
She-Hulk and the Fantastic Four continued operating out of Avengers Mansion while waiting for their new headquarters, Four Freedoms Plaza, to be finished. Jennifer took part in regular adventures with the FF, fighting the likes of the Skrulls, Doctor Doom, Blastaar and Annihilus.
Working in such close quarters with the Avengers, She-Hulk also had to fight off her mutual attraction to Hercules. She told Johnny Storm once it was difficult not to be impressed by a man whose name had become an adjective. [Fantastic Four (1st series) #286] This also reflected upon her relationship with Wyatt Wingfoot. When Central City was swallowed by a time-warping black dome, She-Hulk fell through first before the rest of the Fantastic Four arrived. Mister Fantastic estimated she spent the equivalent of 150 years inside before they followed her. Wyatt was stricken by the idea that Jen may have died of old age without reuniting with them. Mercifully, She-Hulk was found preserved in stasis by the colony of exiles inside. After this adventure, Wyatt tried to tell Jen how much he was in love with her, but she changed the subject rather than dwell on heavy matters like that. Although they had strong feelings for one another, it seemed Jen and Wyatt were in two different places emotionally, and their relationship would quietly end not long after that. [Fantastic Four (1st series) #293-296]