BIOGRAPHY - page 6
Although the Wasp set up She-Hulk with the penthouse apartment of one of her buildings, rent free, Jennifer still decided to get back to work and return to the practice of law. She became a barred attorney for the state of New York and sat for an interview as an assistant district attorney. Upon getting hired by D.A. Blake Tower, Jennifer learned it was his assistant Louise Mason who had proposed her for the job. Weezi was another self-aware comic book character and explained she used to be a masked heroine in the 1940’s called the Blonde Phantom. She had married her love interest Mark Mason back when her Timely Comics strip ended in 1949, and the two of them began aging naturally now that they were out of the comics. When old acquaintances like Captain America and Sub-Mariner resurfaced in the Marvel Age of Comics, the Blonde Phantom thought she would be called back into the spotlight as well. Instead, they continued to age and Mark passed away at seventy-two. Now in her sixties (circa real-time 1989), Weezi made a conscious effort to become a supporting character in She-Hulk’s series so that Marvel-Time would keep her from aging further. After helping She-Hulk defeat Stilt-Man, Jen and Weezi became friends and Louise shared some of her own tricks about navigating a comic book world. [Sensational She-Hulk #4]
John Byrne continued treating She-Hulk to a series of silly super-villains, fighting the likes of Doctor Bong and Xemnu the Titan. On a mission in space alongside space trucker super-heroes 
such as Razorback, Taryn O’Connell and U.S. Archer, Archer’s space alien pal, Al, gave Jennifer a 1959 Dodge that could fly in order to get her home. Her career with the D.A.’s office started off successfully when a private detective named Nick St. Christopher helped her prove a criminal had been naughty, and not nice as he claimed. After their success, “Nick” gave Jennifer a gift, telling her to open it on Christmas for something special. [Sensational She-Hulk #5-8]
Llyra of water-breathing Lemuria and Ghaur of their Deviant neighbors joined forces to raise the Elder God Set and conquer the Earth. She-Hulk and Spider-Man intervened in one of their early schemes that unleashed the Abomination on New York. The gamma mutate was defeated, but Ghaur used the incident to place the Mark of Set on Jennifer. He soon gathered the Seven Brides
of Set, hypnotizing She-Hulk and other super-heroines to help cast the final spell that would restore Set on the Earthly plane. The Avengers captured She-Hulk on a mission for Ghaur, then released her to follow their brainwashed teammate back to the villains’ lair. Set did rise, temporarily, but the Serpent God was destroyed by the power of the Demogorge, freeing She-Hulk and the others from their spell. [Atlantis Attacks crossover]
There were some growing pains when Byrne left She-Hulk’s series prematurely, leaving her and the new creative team to recapture the same fourth-wall breaking magic of the title up until that point. Jennifer also lost her job with the D.A.’s office. A defense attorney successfully argued that She-Hulk’s heroics as an Avenger could unfairly prejudice a jury in favor of her case. D.A. Tower was forced to fire her after a sure victory turned into a mistrial. At loose ends, She-Hulk accepted a dinner offer from media consultant Lexington Loopner. As an image consultant, Loopner offered to use his pseudonic technology to make Jennifer exceedingly wealthy in exchange for her saving his life. A disgruntled ex-client got a hold of Loopner’s technology and declared himself Pseudoman. Nearly invincible thanks to the advanced self-image imposed on him by the pseudonic tech, Pseudoman intended to warp reality itself through mass market manipulation. While his body was more powerful than a locomotive, though, the tech itself was still vulnerable, and She-Hulk tricked Pseudoman into electrocuting himself and disabling his equipment. [Sensational She-Hulk #9-11]
The battle with Pseudo-Man kept She-Hulk occupied during the onset of the Acts of Vengeance affair. Loki had gathered several “prime movers” from the super-villain fraternity to bring an end to the Avengers, and super-heroes in general. Their main strategy was to orchestrate lesser villains into fighting heroes unfamiliar with them, hoping a series of surprise attacks would fell their foes by proxy. Other maneuvers included the sinking of Avengers Island and a public relations campaign against super-heroes that led to the proposal of a Super-Powers Registration Act before Congress. She-Hulk and the core Avengers tried defending their record in a public forum, only to be attacked by Doctor Doom’s pawns, the Assembly of Evil. Eventually, Loki and his co-conspirators were defeated, the registration act failed in committee, but the Avengers were strained to the brink. [Acts of Vengeance event]
Jennifer and Weezi decided to take a trip together as they planned the opening of Jen’s private practice as an attorney. While in Jen’s flying car, however, they were caught up in a magnetic anomaly and crashed near Mt. Pressure, Vermont. She-Hulk ended up fighting a deranged,
puritanical preacher who was possessed by a demon and used the anomaly to impose his beliefs on the town. Anyway… the magnetic anomaly itself was found in a snow field and turned out to be a trans-dimensional mass of some kind. Jennifer’s hand disappeared by passing through the anomaly’s frame. What’s more, She-Hulk felt genuinely cold after falling into a lake in the Vermont winter. The anomaly seemed to have drained away some of her gamma radiation.
Unable to reach Reed Richards, Jennifer brought the anomaly to a theoretical physicist named Dr. Brent Wilcox of Empire State University. Back in college, Jen had had a huge crush on Brent, though he never had time for her back in those days. Brent did some tests and theorized the anomaly contained an entire compacted universe, encroaching on their multiversal space. Meanwhile, a cosmic being known as the Critic (from a more, well, critical cousin branch of the Watchers) foresaw the crisis of the Encroachiverses and dispatched Howard the Duck to aid She-Hulk’s investigations. Howard’s sudden appearance at ESU knocked Brent into the anomaly, and so Jen grabbed the duck and followed after him.
Inside the Baloneyverse (the Encroachiverse of that particular anomaly), Jennifer was shocked to discover her gamma rays almost completely drained, making her powerless. Jen and Howard navigated the surreal space until they found Brent but were attacked by the baloney-hungry
hordes of the universe. Jen experienced a bizarre transformation as the local equivalent of “night” fell, changing into a grey-skinned savage She-Hulk similar to Bruce’s earliest transformation. Aggressive and recalcitrant, the Savage She-Hulk raged until the Critic’s power pulled the three of them back to Earth and the light of day, changing Jen back to normal. Fearing what would happen come nightfall, Jen and her entourage met up with Louise and used her flying car to race the sun westward to the old laboratory caves where Bruce Banner locked himself up as the rampaging Hulk. They failed to contain She-Hulk, but ambient gamma rays from the desert ended up changing Jen back to her normal proportions and temperament, only with grey skin.
As all this side-questing was going on, more anomalies rained down on Earth, each containing their own Encroachiverse. The plot had been initiated by Howard’s old nemesis, Doctor Angst, who wished to compress all of space and time into the most mundane of possible existences, using the cosmic squish principle to wipe out all of existence he didn’t approve of. She-Hulk and her collection of random guest-stars fought Doctor Angst and his henchmen. Brent realized the super-villain Black Hole sucked just like the anomalies, and his sucking power could be used to
contain them. She-Hulk restrained the Black Hole while the Critic used his cosmic power to draw all the anomalies on Earth into his sucking chest, trapping the Encroachiverses in his singularity field. Having managed this crisis of infinite earths, the Critic restored Jen to gamma green and edited her friends’ memories so that his ancient, sacred oath of non-interference was more-or-less unbroken. [Sensational She-Hulk #13-17]
As Jennifer’s private practice opened its doors, Weezi left the D.A.’s office to be her business partner. Showing no hard feelings on losing his assistant, Blake Tower even forwarded a client to Jennifer for her first case. Sanford Packard’s dentist had installed a micro-transceiver in his molar, which accidentally revealed itself when it started broadcasting AM radio. Doctor Bob Doom, D.D.S., was fifth cousin to the more infamous Victor von Doom, cursed with his own brilliance and
dreams of conquest. His transceivers were intended to receive mind control instructions for his patients, compelling them to turn their estates over to Doom. As She-Hulk began investigating his scheme, Doom D.D.S. went for broke and assailed her with robotic attack drones. She-Hulk defeated Doom in battle and in the courts, reversing the decisions that swindled his former patients of their assets. [Sensational She-Hulk #18]
After Weezi haggled brilliantly for a deal on their new office space, Lexington Loopner returned to offer Jen her next job. She was to act as his representative in Visigoth, Massachusetts to collect payment on his behalf for a P.R. campaign he launched for a mystery client. The client was one Purple Hayes, heiress who dedicated herself to tackling crime after her parents were murdered outside a theatre twenty years ago. To launch her new identity as the crusading cape-wearer, Nosferata the She-Bat, she contracted Loopner to flood the Visigoth market with bat imagery. She-Hulk got involved after Jack Serious sent Three-Face to kidnap her from her hotel room and bring her to Dorkham Asylum. Nosferata tracked She-Hulk there in her Nosferauto, and so the Jade Giantess and the Dark Princess had a team-up. Jack Serious was trampled to death by his own inmates before he could release his Serious Gas on Visigoth. (Why yes, Tim Burton’s Batman did hit theatres the previous summer. Why do you ask?) [Sensational She-Hulk #19-20]
Weezi’s past came back to haunt her when she and Jen found her apartment ransacked and evidence in the “Rosebud” case file from her days as the Blonde Phantom missing. Jennifer and Weezi’s visiting daughter Wanda went looking for her when Weezi failed to show up to work the next day. The “Rosebud” case centered around an atomic bomb stolen from the government back in ’46 when the Blonde Phantom and the All-Winners Squad were guarding it. Weezi had always believed the mobster Dutch Rosenblatt was responsible but could never prove it. She confronted him at his Las Vegas casino but failed to intimidate him. Weezi also ran across Jasper Keating, former aide to her Senator father, who founded the American Purity Foundation to preach morals and fleece donations from scandalized citizens. He financed the creation of the APF’s own hero, Captain Rectitude, and the gamma-powered Abominatrix, who was responsible for burglarizing Louise’s office. Jasper wanted the bomb for himself to scare off the debtors closing in on him.
By the time She-Hulk and Wanda reached Las Vegas, Abominatrix had taken Louise hostage and Jasper forced She-Hulk to find the bomb for him or else. With a trip to Four Freedoms Plaza, Jen and Wanda traveled back in time to witness Dutch’s theft and learn he planned to hide the bomb in plain sight as the “Randi Rocket” statue atop the fountain outside his casino. Meanwhile, Wanda had never believed her mother’s “war stories” until she saw the Blonde Phantom in action with the All-Winners. Back in the present, she was inspired to begin her own super-career as the totally original Phantom Blonde. Jen and Wanda now knew where the bomb was, but their opponents were still suicidal egomaniacs. Dutch had the bomb wired to a dead man’s-switch in
his pacemaker, so Las Vegas would blow the moment he died. Jasper’s growing financial losses made him psychotic enough to kill Dutch and “purify” Las Vegas in atomic fire. Fortunately, She-Hulk’s pitching arm was good enough to launch the rocket out of Las Vegas towards the emptiest spot of desert she could think of… Jasper’s failed desert hotel and retreat. The threat was ended, Jasper taken into custody and Weezi freed. Now She-Hulk and the Blonde Phantom only had to reckon with the enthusiasm of… the Phantom Blonde. [Sensational She-Hulk #21-23]