Appearing in "Your Lucky Day"
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ She-Hulk (Jen Walters) ⏵ (Appears in flashback)
- ⏴ Joe Fixit (Bruce Banner) ⏵ (Appears in flashback)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "Your Lucky Day"
Years ago, somewhere on a stretch of highway in the Nevada desert, two mutants named Discordia and Tantrum murder everyone inside of a diner and then steal a Firebird. They then head into the city of Las Vegas.
At the Colosseum Casino, the She-Hulk is attending to her law school class reunion. The moment makes her think back to the early days of her law career where she was given an emergency transfusion from her cousin Bruce Banner and how the irradiated blood turned her into the She-Hulk. Suddenly, she sees the casino's enforcer, Joe Fixit. His massive gray skinned frame reminds her of her cousin the Hulk. Joe Fixit also notices his cousin and hopes that she didn't see him as the entire world believes him dead after the Leader detonated a gamma bomb. Wanting to keep his survival a secret so he can his ideal life uninterrupted by his enemies. Unfortunately, She-Hulk did see him and runs after to confront him and find out if this bruiser is really her cousin or not.
Meanwhile, outside, Discordia and Tantrum stall the car outside of the casino and take it as a sign to go inside. When one of the casino staff tells them that they can't park their car there, Discordia uses her mutant powers to send him crashing through the front window. Discordia then orders everyone in the casino to hand over their valuables, using her powers to strike fear into the hearts of everyone in the room. This fuels Tantrum's powers, increasing his strength, allowing him to start trashing the casino. Elsewhere in the building, She-Hulk confronts Joe Fixit but he denies the fact that he is really the Hulk. Before Jennifer can press him for more answers, he gets a call from his boss, Michael Berengetti, who tells him of the situation down on the casino floor. Joe Fixit uses this as an opportunity to get away from She-Hulk, but she is not so easily dissuaded.
While Joe Fixit clashes with Tantrum, She-Hulk follows behind him insisting that he is actually the Hulk. Joe continues to deny it, and when She-Hulk is distracted, she is struck by a slot machine tossed by Discordia. Tantrum then gets the drop on the Hulk and the force of his attack sends them crashing through the floor. They land in the middle of the mock gladiatorial arena that serves as one of the casino's attractions. As the two fight it out, Tantrum tries to convince the Hulk that this battle was ordained by the gods. That causes the mind of Bruce Banner begin speaking in Joe's mind, telling him that his birth was a freak accident, a random chance incident. This anger the Hulk and he lash out on Tantrum even harder than before. Back up on the casino floor, She-Hulk recovers from Discordia's attack and easily knocks her out. Down below, Joe Fixit pounds into Tantrum in submission, bellowing to Banner how he will never give up control of his body ever again. Suddenly, he is stopped by She-Hulk, who grabs his arm. Having not heard his rant, she sees the level of cruelty and violence that Joe Fixit is employing and is convinced that he couldn't possibly be her cousin.
With the battle over, She-Hulk is complimented by one of the gladiatorial performers, and she takes him off for a drink. In the aftermath, Joe Fixit considers how close he was to having his cover blown and realizes that if the two mutants hadn't come into the casino on chance, it likely would have.
Appearing in "School For Savage"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Races and Species:
- Brood-Sakaaran Hybrids
- Human-Sakaaran Hybrids
- Sakaarans
Locations:
Synopsis for "School For Savage"
Following his painful encounter with the Shadow Priests who tattooed his body, Skaar, the Son of Hulk, retreats back to his cave. There he paints on the wall of the cave, chronicling his ordeal as his hybrids watch. Weakened from the experience, Skaar eventually passes out. Suddenly, the elderly man known as Old Sam enters the cave and is able to get close to Skaar after feeding his hybrids. Having made a poultice to cure Skaar of the cutfrog venom that was used to tattoo Skaar.
With Skaar cured, Old Sam tells the savage that he is going to teach him how to be civilized, starting with trying to get the child to wear pants. However, Skaar has his own ideas on what "civilized society" is. He tosses a flaming log up at the cave wall, showing painted images of the senseless slaughter that he has witnessed by the barbarians that roam Sakaar. Old Sam admits that the boy has learned some harsh lessons. However, he tells the boy that not everyone on Sakaar is like this. He implores Skaar to follow the destiny laid out by his father the Hulk, and his mother Caiera the Oldstrong and save the world.
Unfortunately, Skaar isn't interested in any destiny and attacks Old Sam. The old man wakes up to find himself in a charnel pit. He is discovered by some travelers who help them up, but he quickly discovers that they are cannibal barbarians from Fillia. Although he is chased and knocked to the ground by a blow to the head. As he begins to black out, he notices Skaar's hybrids swarming around him. When Old Sam wakes up he is back in the cave, having been saved by Skaar. He is impressed to see that while the boy continues his primitive artwork he is now wearing pants.
Appearing in "Daughter of Hulk"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Nella ⏵
Antagonists:
- Male warriors
Other Characters:
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Only in recap)
- Thundra (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-8009
- Munitions Factory
Synopsis for "Daughter of Hulk"
Lyra is leading her fellow female warriors into battle against a tribe of men who have secured a secret armory. Leading the charge, Lyra fights side-by-side with her sister-in-arms, Nella. As she fights her way through the warriors she recounts how her mother birthed her naturally thanks to cells that was swabbed from the mouth of the Hulk, the strongest mortal of Earth's distant past. She pauses to think how not many people like her because of this because she is the only person in this future that has a father. This is why she insists on standing out front of the battlefields and acting feminine while laying into her enemies.
Soon they get past the warriors and breach the gates. While the other warriors secure the area, Lyra smashes into what she thinks is a munitions factory. However, instead, she discovers that it is actually a massive birthing cradle, where thousands of new males are being artificially grown. She considers destroying the facility when she is suddenly attacked by a young boy. When she sees how the boy bravely wants to defend his unborn brothers, Lyra decides against destroying the cradle. She gets her moment when she is called back to battle as the men have called in reinforcements. When Lyra rejoins Nella outside, she tells her that the information they got was false and that they had come to destroy an empty building. But as more men come charging into battle, Lyra tells her fellow female warriors to make the best of the situation.
Appearing in "Emerald Highway"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- ⏴ Amadeus Cho ⏵ (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- ⏴ Kirby ⏵ (Only in flashback)
- AIM (Only in recap)
- Monica Rappaccini (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Desert highway
Vehicles:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Prison Transport
Synopsis for "Emerald Highway"
Following World War Hulk, a S.H.I.E.L.D. Unit has been tasked with transporting Bruce Banner out to a holding facility. As they drive along a desert highway they get a report that the Scorpion is attempting to free Banner and they have orders to capture her. Suddenly, the Scorpion incapacitates the S.H.I.E.L.D. cars escorting the prisoner carrier.
She then incapacitates the soldiers driving the transport and uses the top bound guns to blow up the armored vehicle behind her. As she prepares to break into the prisoner transport, the Scorpion's mind thinks back to what put her on Banner's trail. She recalls her time with Amadeus Cho during the Hulk war. When they were traveling in the sewers, he told her how he hacked S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files and learned about her mother's brief fling with Bruce Banner when they were both in college. He questions if the Scorpion's green hair is hereditary or not.
She has since tracked down Banner in the hopes of getting a DNA sample and learning if he is her biological father in the hopes of having a connection to someone who is generally viewed as heroic. When S.H.I.E.L.D. command learns that the prisoner transport has been compromised, they use an orbital satellite to blow it up. However, this is merely a decoy, the real Bruce Banner has arrived at Gamma Base to be incarcerated. While in the desert, the Scorpion has dragged the containment unit she thinks holds Bruce Banner and has opened it up only to discover that there is nothing inside but a fake head floating in a container full of fluid. Realizing that she has failed on her mission, the Scorpion begins to cry.
Appearing in "The She-Hulk Lives"
Savage She-Hulk #1
Featured Characters:
- She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Bruce Banner (As the Hulk in recap and transforms behind the scenes)
Antagonists:
- Nick Trask (Behind the scenes)
- Nick Trask's hired assassins
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed Angelenos
- U.S. Army (Mentioned)
- Igor Starsky (Only in recap)
- Rick Jones (Only in recap)
- Monkton (Mentioned)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Numerous unnamed medical personnel
- LAPD
- Joe
Races and Species:
Locations:
- United States] (Main story and recap)
- California
- Los Angeles
- Jen Walters' home
- Unnamed hospital
- Los Angeles
- New Mexico (Only in recap)
- Los Diablos Missile Base (Only in recap)
- California
Items:
- G-Bomb (Only in recap)
Synopsis for "The She-Hulk Lives"
Savage She-Hulk #1
Bruce Banner walks up the few steps to an office building in Los Angeles. Bruce thinks to himself that he can’t take it anymore. He says that sooner or later the police are going to catch up with him. He says that he needs to confide in someone. Bruce says that the last time he saw Jen that she was just his kid cousin, but that now she is a lawyer there in Los Angeles. Bruce says that Jen is his last hope. Bruce walks into Jen’s office and asks her if she needs some help because the book she is holding is as big as she is. Jen says that she would know that voice anywhere and turns to see “Doc”. She says that she hasn’t seen him since he quit med school for nuclear physics. Bruce says that only Jen ever calls him “Doc”. Bruce says what about her becoming a big-time criminal lawyer. Jen hugs Bruce and starts to say that she wants to hear all about him, but stops as she senses that there is something wrong. Bruce says that he might as well come out with it, but that he isn’t sure how to tell her. Jen says that they were like brother and sister, and that they told each other everything. Bruce tells her that he is a wanted man. He says that the police and army are after him. Jen says that she can’t believe it and asks what he has done. Bruce says that it isn’t what he has done, but what he has become. Bruce goes on to tell Jen the story of how he became the Hulk. Jen looks down at Bruce and realizes that he really means it. Bruce says that it is a chemical reaction that happens within him that he cannot control of cure. Bruce says that he feels like he is going mad. Bruce apologizes and says that he has no right to lay this on her. Jen tells him not to say that. She says that she wants him to come home with her, and that there must be an answer.
Outside in the parking lot, Bruce warns Jen that there may be danger involved. Jen tells Bruce that she is a criminal lawyer and that she lives with danger. Bruce says that it is not the same. As Jen pulls out of her parking space, two thugs watch her. One notes that she has someone with her, but the other one says that it isn’t going to do her any good. As they’re driving Bruce asks Jen what she has been doing. Jen says that she is keeping busy, and that she is defending a hood named Monkton that is accused of killing Nick Trask’s bodyguard. Jen says that Monkton is no saint, but that in this case he has been framed. She says that Trask hates Monkton, and that she thinks that Trask set him up though she hasn’t been able to prove it. Bruce asks Jen how she plans to defend her client. Jen says that she has a plan. She says that she planted a rumor that she has secret evidence proving that Trask himself killed the bodyguard. Bruce says that if Trask really is the killer that he might try to kill her. Jen says that those things only happen in the movies. Jen pulls into her driveway and the car with the thugs also stops. As they get out of the car, Bruce is warning Jen that she is playing with fire when Jen is suddenly shot in the back by the thugs. One thug gets out and says that he is going to finish her off and that “Trask said to make sure”. Bruce sees that Jen is still breathing and says that he has to save her. Bruce picks up a hose and sprays it into the thug’s eyes. Bruce grabs Jen and runs down an alley with her. The thug gets off a shot, but he misses because of the water in his eyes. Trask’s thugs decide that there have been too many shots fired and take off.
Inside the house, Bruce watches the thugs driving away. He says that he has to remain calm, and that only he, and not the Hulk, can help Jen now. Bruce sees that she has lost too much blood and figures that she is going to need a fast transfusion to save her. Bruce says that he needs equipment, but that he can’t wait for an ambulance to arrive. Bruce carries her out the door looking for a nearby doctor’s office. Bruce’s heart is pounding, but he manages to stay calm for Jen’s sake. Bruce spots a doctor’s shingle and runs up. There is no answer at the door, but Bruce says that he can’t fail her now. Bruce punches out a window and lets himself in. Bruce says that he will do the transfusion himself. He says that he remembers that they have the same blood type. Bruce performs the transfusion and then says that the worst part is going to be waiting. The minutes crawl by until Jen wakes up and asks Doc what happened. Bruce says that thank god that she made it. Bruce gets up and calls the police.
Minutes later, Jen is loaded into an ambulance. The police also arrive and say that they want to question him. At the precinct, the police say that Bruce has no identification or credit cards. They ask who he is. Bruce says that he is a friend of Miss Walters. The police says that what he is, is a suspect. The police leave to go talk to the district attorney. Bruce starts freaking out that he can’t let them find out who he is. When the police return, Bruce Banner is gone and there is a giant hole in the wall.
The next day, Bruce looks through the paper until he reads that “Miss Walters will recover”. He says that now that he knows she is safe that he has to be going since they will be looking for him.
Jen sits in her hospital bed. She says that her skin and bones seem to be tingling, but figures that it is just the medicine that they gave her. Jen thinks to herself that she should have listened to Bruce about Trask. She figures that Bruce must have run off because he was afraid they would discover that he was the Hulk. She decides that she had best forget about Bruce for now, and try to think of a way to prove that Trask is guilty. Suddenly three men in doctor’s clothes walk into Jen’s room. One of them says that it is time for her medicine. Jen says that she doesn’t know him. She asks where her own doctor is, and asks why it takes three of them to bring her the medicine. The man holding the “medicine” says that she asks too many questions, and that she isn’t going to like the answers. Jen shouts that they aren’t doctors. Trask’s man pours the “fateful chloroform” onto a rag while the other two men hold Jen down. They put the rag over her face, but as her breathing is growing heavy her pulse rate is still speeding up. Suddenly the three men are sent flying. The three men look up confused and see a giant green woman looking down at them. She says, “Now let’s see how tough you are… against me!” One of the thugs dubs the giant green woman “some kind’a She-Hulk!” One of the thugs pulls a gun and fires. She-Hulk lifts up the hospital bed and blocks the bullet. She says, “You called me a She-Hulk! And a She-Hulk I’ll be!” She then takes the bed and throws it at the three of them.
The three men go running out of the room to the elevator. She-Hulk reaches the doors too late, but she grabs the closed doors and rips them apart. She grabs hold of the elevator cables and pulls the elevator itself back up to her. She-Hulk then tears through the ceiling of the elevator. The three thugs push the open button, and magically the door open somewhere that they can run out of. She-Hulk gets angrier and angrier. She says that she is going to get them. The hospital staff tries to stop She-Hulk as she makes her way to the stairs, but She-Hulk just shoves them out of her way. As she runs down the stairs, She-Hulk says that she has “never felt this way before! I can do anything! I’m throbbing with power!”
She-Hulk runs out of the building just as the three thugs are pulling away in their car. She-Hulk pulls a lamppost out of the ground and throws it into the getaway car’s tires knocking them all off. She-Hulk grabs one of them out of the car and says that he has some explaining to do. The man begs her not to hurt him, and says that it was Trask that paid them “to kill the Walters dame! He was afraid she’d prove he framed Monkton for murder!” She-Hulk asks if he means the murder that Trask himself committed. The man swears to it. She-Hulk tells the surrounding police that they all heard that. She-Hulk starts to run away. One police officer tells her to come back, but She-Hulk says that if he wants her that he is going to have to catch her. The other cop tells him to let her be, as there is no law against green skin.
She-Hulk feels her anger and strength fading so she hurries up the fire stairs. She says that no one must see her. When she gets off the stairs she notices that the hall is empty. She is halfway done changing back when she realizes that her room was ruined and goes instead to the room next to her room. A nurse looks in and asks Jen why she is in this room. Jen says that she was frightened by all the yelling and fighting. The nurse says that she is lucky that she wasn’t hurt. The nurse says that the female savage was just horrible, but that it is over now. When the nurse leaves Jen says that she doesn’t know how wrong she is. Jen thinks that this isn’t over, but that it is just the beginning. She realizes that it must have been the blood transfusion that caused it. She says that she has “become a gamma-ray monster… like poor Doc! But I’ll learn to live with it! From now on, whatever Jennifer Walters can’t handle… the She-Hulk will do!”
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
Continuity Notes[]
Your Lucky Day
- This story takes place during a period in which the Hulk was believed to have died in a gamma bomb explosion in Incredible Hulk #346. He operated as an enforcer for Michael Berengetti from Incredible Hulk #347–359. Thanks to a spell cast upon him in Incredible Hulk #352 the Hulk would not refer back into Banner until the spell wore off circa Incredible Hulk #353.
- The origins of the Hulk and She-Hulk are recounted in this story. These events happened in Incredible Hulk #1 and Savage She-Hulk #1 respectively.
- One of Jennifer's classmates mistakenly thinks that Jennifer is still a member of the Fantastic Four. She-Hulk was with the FF from Fantastic Four #265–301.
Daughter of Hulk
- Lyra recounts how her mother got a cell sample from the Hulk to birth her. That happened in Hulk: Raging Thunder #1.
Emerald Highway
- The flashback where Scorpion learns about her mother's connection to Banner from Amadeus Cho takes place during the events of Incredible Hulk (Vol. 2) #109.
- The Scorpion mentions the time she fought the Hulk, that happened in Incredible Hulk (Vol. 2) #87.
Chronology Notes[]
Flashbacks in this story affect the chronologies of the following
Your Lucky Day:
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Page 2, Panel 3:
Emerald Highway: