Sheriff Morris Walters

Sheriff Morris Walters is a small-town lawman and the father of Jennifer Walters — the She-Hulk — whose position of local authority places him at the center of the criminal tensions and dangerous figures, like mobster Nick Trask, that shaped his daughter's transformation.

A small-town lawman with a surprisingly long shadow, Sheriff Morris Walters stepped onto the Bronze Age Marvel stage in 1980, debuting in the pages of The Savage She-Hulk #2 courtesy of David Anthony Kraft and Mike Vosburg. His world is one of local authority and tangled loyalties, sharing those early stories with Jennifer Walters, the jade giantess herself, as well as figures like Nick Trask and Dennis "Buck" Bukowski. Modest in appearance count but enduring enough to show up across four decades — from the original Savage She-Hulk run through major omnibus collections — Sheriff Walters is one of those grounding, human-scale characters who remind you that even the wildest Marvel adventures have roots in something recognizably real.