Jennifer Walters

A mild-mannered attorney and cousin of Bruce Banner, Jennifer Walters received an emergency blood transfusion from Bruce after being critically wounded. The gamma-irradiated blood transformed her into the She-Hulk — a powerful green powerhouse who, unlike her cousin, retains her full intelligence and personality.

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.