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Jennifer Walters

975 appearances · Bronze Age · 1974–2026 · 38 key issues

Who is Jennifer Walters?

Few Marvel characters have shown the kind of staying power that Jennifer Walters has, debuting back in 1974 during the Bronze Age — first spotted in the pages of FOOM Magazine under the hand of Steranko — and still going strong well into the 2020s across nearly a thousand catalogued appearances. She's headlined her own She-Hulk series while rubbing shoulders with the heaviest hitters in the Marvel Universe: Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the rest of the A-list crowd in Avengers and Fantastic Four territory. With 38 key issues to her name, collectors have had plenty of reasons to pay close attention to her across five-plus decades. If you're building a serious Marvel collection, Jennifer Walters is absolutely essential reading.

Teams & affiliations

Avengers

The Savage She-Hulk
#1

★ First appearance

The Savage She-Hulk #1

Feb 1980

Trivia

Marvel created She-Hulk as a calculated defensive trademark move — the House of Ideas wanted a female Hulk on the printed page before any television producer could introduce one independently and claim ownership of the concept.inverse.com
The urgency behind her creation traced directly to the runaway success of The Incredible Hulk on television, with Marvel fearing an outside producer might launch a female counterpart as a spin-off-style character and seize the concept right out from under them.inverse.com
Decades before fourth-wall-breaking and female-led superhero satire became fashionable, She-Hulk was already doing both — later runs recast her as a self-aware, meta legal-comic lead that comics journalism has long pointed to as unusually ahead of its time.inverse.com
Dan Slott has written more of Jennifer Walters's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 53 issues.