She-Hulk #1
She-Hulk (2005) #1 — titled 'Captive Audience' — reopened Dan Slott's fan-acclaimed superhuman-law run after Marvel deliberately ended the first volume at twelve issues and relaunched it as a second ongoing series eight months later, a gap acknowledged within the story itself. The issue re-established the GLK&H law firm as a creative engine unlike anything else in mainstream superhero publishing: a workplace comedy grounded in Marvel continuity, where in-universe comics published before 2001 function as admissible legal evidence. It also served as one of the earliest post-House of M appearances of Clint Barton and delivered a key early outing for Cassie Lang as Stature of the Young Avengers. Slott's entire run on both volumes would later serve as the direct creative blueprint for the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).
In "Many Happy Returns," Jennifer Walters returns to her law career at the rebuilt Timely Plaza, where her first case takes a wild turn: a client accused of attempted murder must face a jury pulled from the past—via time machine. The twist? One of the selected jurors is Hawkeye, a man long dead in the present, now unexpectedly part of the proceedings. Written by Dan Slott and illustrated by Juan Bobillo, with inks by Marcelo Sosa and colors by Avalon's Dave Kemp, this issue features a cover by Greg Horn.
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Dan Slott and penciller Juan Bobillo — the original creative team from the 2004 volume — returned together for this relaunch, with Marcelo Sosa on inks and Tom Brevoort as editor. Marvel had closed the first series at twelve issues with the explicit promise of a 'second season,' and the eight-month gap between volumes was woven into the narrative rather than glossed over. The cover-dated December 2005 issue was released on October 19, 2005, positioning it squarely in the immediate aftermath of House of M and just as the Young Avengers were becoming a fixture of the Marvel line.
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- Written by Dan Slott with art by Juan Bobillo (pencils) and Marcelo Sosa (inks); edited by Tom Brevoort; cover-dated December 2005, released October 19, 2005.
- Titled 'Captive Audience'; this is the first issue of She-Hulk Vol. 2, a deliberate relaunch of the 2004–2005 twelve-issue first volume by the same core creative team.
- First appearance of Charles Czarkowski (antagonist) and among the earliest appearances of Artie Zix in his new role managing GLK&H, a figure later revealed to be the alien recorder RT-Z9.
- Features one of Clint Barton/Hawkeye's earliest post-House of M reappearances; the solicitation made his return a central marketing hook.
- Cassie Lang (Stature) and the Vision appear in their Young Avengers context — Stature and Vision are being sued by Boomerang and Ox for harassment after stopping the villains from selling guns to children.
- The GLK&H law firm name is a tribute to Marvel's founding generation: Goodman (publisher Martin Goodman), Lieber (Stan Lee's birth name), and Kurtzberg (Jack Kirby's birth name), with Holden Holliway as the fourth named partner.
- Holden Holliway is absent, having left the firm to search for his granddaughter Southpaw (Sasha Martin); both appear only via recorded message and on-screen, respectively.
- The entire Slott run — both volumes — was later collected in the She-Hulk by Dan Slott Omnibus and served as the acknowledged source material for the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).
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Reprinted in She-Hulk #3 (2006), Avante, Vingadores! #1 (2007), She-Hulk by Dan Slott: The Complete Collection #1 (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy: Road to Annihilation #2 (2017), She-Hulk by Dan Slott Omnibus #[nn] (2020)
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