JANIS
JONES
Real Name: Janis Jones
Identity/Class: Alternate
reality (Earth-9200/Dystopia) human
Occupation: Revolutionary
Group Membership: None;
former member of outlaw resistance movement to the
Maestro's rule
Affiliations: Earth-9200: Betty-6,
Char, Chira, Cyberslik, Dakord, Librito,
Meg, Pizfiz,
Po, Skooter,
Sleek,
Earth-616: Absorbing Man (Carl "Crusher"
Creel), Elamron, the Hulk (Bruce Banner), Rick Jones, Marlo
Chandler-Jones, Juggernaut (Cain Marko), Stacey
Enemies: Earth-9200: Abomination
(Emil Blonsky), Agarn, the
Gravity Policy, Hercules/Maestro of Earth-9200,
Kaspin, the Maestro
(Bruce Banner), Quarry,
Earth-616: Mike Flannagan, the Pantheon,
Shi'ar Imperial Guard (Gladiator/Kallark, Oracle/Sibyl), the
Thunderbolts (Atlas/Erik Josten, Citizen V/Helmut Zemo, Mach-1/Abner
Jenkins, Meteorite/Karla Sofen, Songbird/Melissa Gold, Techno/Norbert
Ebersol), the United States military, Alex Wildman
Known Relatives: (All of Earth-9200) Rick Jones
(great grandfather), Marlo Chandler Jones (great grandmother)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Mobile;
formerly an underground bunker in the Maestro's
Dystopia
First Appearance: Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect #1 (December 1992)
Powers/Abilities: Janis Jones has no superhuman
abilities, but she is an experienced and proficient hand to hand fighter
and athlete.
Janis wields a staff in combat, which
is capable of emitting powerful energy blasts from either end, powerful
enough to shoot down a helicopter.
Janis also uses her long hair braid as a weapon in combat.
At least in her own reality, Janis was
worthy to lift Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor.
Height: 5'10
Weight: 135 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
History:
(Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect I#1 (fb) - BTS) <Decades before
Janis' birth> - Earth was devastated by nuclear war.
(Maestro I#1 (fb) - BTS) - At the outset of the nuclear
conflict, A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics) seized many individuals whose
bodies made them likely to benefit from the radiation. One of the
individuals AIM captured was the Hulk, who they placed in suspected
animation for several decades.
(Maestro I#2-3 (fb) - BTS) - On the former site of New York City, the
hero Hercules built up a city from the ruins, which drew in the
remaining population. Hercules took on the name "Maestro," and the city
became known as Dystopia. Traumatized and jaded by his experiences,
Hercules/Maestro ruled over Dystopia as a dictator.
(Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Janis was born and
grew up in the city state of Dystopia, approximately 100 years in the
future (see comments). She was
the great granddaughter (see comments)
of Rick and Marlo Jones, and she was named after the singer Janis
Joplin.
(Maestro I#1/2) - As a child, Janis and her friend Dakord walked over
the ruins of Avengers Mansion where, as a hobby, Janis used a set of
goggles designed by the mutant Forge to search for artifacts in the
wreckage. Janis and Dakord found Captain America's shield, and they also
came upon Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. Ignorant of the hammer's origin,
Dakord attempted to lift Mjolnir, but could not make it budge. The young
Janis then easily lifted Mjolnir over her head with one hand. When Janis
brought the hammer to her grandfather, Rick Jones told her to put the
hammer down and not touch it again, and muttered, "she's
worthy?
Geez!"
(Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect I#1 / Maestro I#2-3 (fb) - BTS) -
Janis became a member of an underground outlaw resistance movement under
her great grandfather's leadership. Alongside her follow
revolutionaries, Janis sought to oppose and undermine the Maestro's
rule.
(Maestro I#2 - BTS) - The Hulk awakened from decades of suspended
animation and made his way towards Dystopia.
(Maestro I#2) - Janis learned of the Hulk's arrival, and informed her
elderly, wheelchair-bound grandfather, Rick Jones, that his old friend
had returned.
(Maestro I#3) - Some of Janis's fellow outlaws, Pizfiz and Dakord, led
the Hulk to Rick Jones' underground headquarters, where the Hulk and his
old friend were reunited. Rick introduced the Hulk to Janis. Rick
explained to the Hulk how Hercules had become the Maestro and had come
to rule Dystopia. The Hulk bitterly declared that it had been ordinary
people, not the super villains they had dedicated their lives to
fighting, who had destroyed the world in the end, and opined that
humanity needed an iron hand to rule them and enforce unity and order.
The Hulk then set off towards an abandoned Alchemax laboratory to devise
his own methods for brining down and supplanting the Maestro.
(Maestro I#4) - Janis and her fellow outlaws monitored the Hulk's fight
with Hercules/Maestro, and witnessed as Hercules defeated the Hulk.
Janis and her friends observed as the Hulk feigned surrender and
departed Dystopia, telling Hercules he would return one way when he
could properly make amends. Janis then listened to Rick as he explained
that the Hulk would certainly return in the future, and that when he
returned he would find a way to defeat Hercules.
(Maestro I#5) - The Hulk returned to Dystopia after years away and
defeated Hercules, seemingly killing him with the aid of Vapor of the
U-Foes. As the Hulk led Hercules' funeral procession through the streets
of Dystopia, members of Janis's outlaw movement attacked him with a
weapon built by Forge. Janis and her great grandfather monitored the
battle from their underground base. The Hulk soon forced the outlaws
into retreat, and also defeated Hercules once again, finally killing
him.
The Hulk then sought out Rick Jones in his
underground base to take his revenge upon him as well, but found that
Rick and his outlaws, including Janis, had already vacated the base and
escaped. Rick Jones then detonated an explosive which destroyed the
underground base with the Hulk still inside. Moments letter, the Hulk
emerged from the wreckage, unscathed. The Hulk then ascended to the
throne of Dystopia, declaring himself the new Maestro.
(Maestro: World War M I#1) - Janis and Dakord approached the elderly
Rick Jones to update him on the Maestro's activities. In his response,
Rick displayed increasing signs of senility and dementia. Afterward,
Janis assured Dakord that her great grandfather was fine, and she
expressed confidence they would find a way to bring down the Maestro.
(Maestro: World War M I#3) - While the Maestro's Minister was on a
mission to the Wastelands surrounding Dystopia, Janis and Dakord
captured him and brought him to Rick Jones. Rick recognized the Minister
as the former super hero Toro, and explained to Janis who Toro had been
during the age of marvels. The Minister revealed that although he worked
for the Maestro, he secretly hated him and hoped someone would come
along who could destroy him. Rick and Janis asked the Minister for
information on the Maestro's weaknesses, but the Minister replied that
the Maestro had none.
(Maestro: World War M I#4) - As the Maestro battled Namor and his
minion, Giganto, they left a path of destruction across Dystopia. From
their underground hideout, Janis and her fellow outlaws felt the ground
and walls shake and observed the battle on their monitors.
(Maestro: World War M I#5) - The Minister delivered Doctor Doom's time
machine to Rick Jones and his outlaws. Rick showed the time platform to
Janis and explained that he had a plan to use the time machine to bring
an end to the Maestro once and for all.
<Chronology uncertain> (Captain Marvel IV#30) - As part of his
plot to gain ultimate power, the villain Thanatos
(Rick Jones of Earth-9309) transported Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) and Spider-Man
(Miguel O'Hara of Earth-928 circa 2099 A.D.) to the Maestro's Dystopia,
where they quickly found themselves face to face with the Maestro. As
the heroes and the Maestro battled across Dystopia, Janis Jones helped
rush children to safety, out of the path of the destructive battle.
(Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect I#1 (fb)) - After securing the time
machine, Rick Jones tasked Janis and her allies with traveling back in
time to secure the support of the Hulk. Rick Jones instructed Janis to
first seek out his past self, the young Rick Jones, and share their
story, in order to better obtain the Hulk's trust and cooperation. To
assist Janis in this endeavor, her great grandfather gave Janis a copy
of his Avengers membership card and a written message which stated: "say
hello to your great granddaughter, stud."
(Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect I#1 (fb) / Incredible Hulk II#415) -
Having arrived in the modern/heroic age of Earth-616, Janis and her ally
Pizfiz used the time machine and were transported into the past of
Earth-616. Once there, Janis and Pizfiz approached the young Rick Jones
in his apartment. When Rick refused to speak with them, Janis broke down
the door to Rick's apartment and, after a brief scuffle, presented Rick
with the message from his alternate future self.
(Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect I#1 (fb) - BTS) - The Hulk agreed to
travel in to the future with Janis and aid her in resisting the Maestro.
Janis and the Hulk then used the time machine to return to Dystopia on
Earth-9200.
(Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect I#1) - The Maestro's Gravity Police
spotted Janis Jones and her fellow outlaws Dakord, Skooter, and Pizfiz
as they walked through the streets of Dystopia. The Gravity Police
quickly killed Dakord and captured Pizfiz, and soon had Janis pinned
down under heavy fire. Janis was saved by the intervention of the Hulk,
and he made her escape to warn her fellow outlaws of the approach of the
Maestro's forces. Janis led the Hulk into the community's' underground
hideout and introduced him to the assembled outlaws who lived there. As
her fellows expressed skepticism and distrust, Janis advocated for the
Hulk as their only hope. Janis then led the Hulk to her great
grandfather's trophy room and introduced the Hulk to the elderly Rick
Jones. Janis was present as her great grandfather told the Hulk of how
their world was devastated by nuclear war, and how, in the aftermath,
the Hulk's alternate future self became the Maestro and subjugated the
world underneath his iron fist.
(Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect I#2) - The Maestro located the
outlaws' underground hideout and led his forces in an assault. Janis and
her allies fought the Maestro's forces and retreated, and witnessed as
the Maestro broke the Hulk's neck and took him prisoner. Following the
Hulk's capture, Janis reconvened with her great grandfather and told him
what had happened, and encouraged her fellow revolutionaries to stay the
course and keep their faith in the Hulk.
The Hulk slowly recovered while in the Maestro's
captivity, and covertly made contact with Janis's outlaws. The Hulk
created a tunnel into the Maestro's palace, through which Janis and her
allies entered in the night to launch an assault. In the midst of the
firefight between the Outlaws and the Maestro's forces, Janis rescued
Char, one of the young women the Maestro had seized as a bride. While
Janis and her allies fought the Maestro's forces, the Hulk defeated the
Maestro by luring him towards Doctor Doom's time machine and sending him
into the past, to the original gamma bomb explosion, where the Maestro
was atomized. Sadly, however, the elderly Rick Jones was mortally
wounded during the struggle. Following the battle, Janis returned to
their headquarters where she found the Hulk with her wounded great
grandfather. Janis was at Rick's side as he passed away from his
injuries.
(Incredible Hulk: Broken Worlds #1/4 / Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect
I#2) - Following the Maestro's defeat, local leaders of the surrounding
settlements requested an audience with the Hulk. Janis made plans to
meet with the leaders and form a working government. Janis and the Hulk
then held a short ceremony in honor of Janis' great grandfather. Bidding
him farewell, Hulk poured Rick's ashes onto Captain America's shield and
threw the shield far into the distance. Janis wondered aloud where the
shield would land.
(Abominations I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Following the Maestro's fall, Janis and
her allies ejected the Maestro's Gravity Police and other enforcers from
the city. Elections were held for the new leadership of Dystopia. The
corrupt Captain Agarn emerged victorious in the elections, becoming
Dystopia's new ruler.
(Abominations I#1) - Janis assisted in training a band of locals to
serve as Dystopia's new police force. Meanwhile, the Abomination, who
had been living for years in the swamp outside Dystopia and leading a
community of mutates, learned of the Maestro's fall. Seeing his
opportunity to assume control of the city, Abomination gathered an army
of mutates and attacked Dystopia. Janis was among those involved in
defending the city, battling against the Abomination's forces. In the
course of their assault on the city, the Abomination and his force
learned that one of the Maestro's consorts, Betty-6, claimed to be
carrying the Maestro's unborn child. After taking control of Dystopia,
Abomination sent his forces to hunt down Betty-6 and end the Maestro's
line.
Meanwhile, after having retreated from the battle,
Janis found a band of refugees from Abomination's assault wandering
through the tunnels beneath Dystopia, with Betty-6 among them. Janis
took the refugees under her protection, and they set off through the
tunnels. Janis led the group (which included among them Po, Sleek, Char,
Cyberslik, Betty-6 and Librito) towards Doctor Doom's time machine and,
to escape the Abomination, she transported them approximately 100 years
into the past on Earth-616. Janis herself stayed behind, to continue her
resistance to the Abomination.
(Abominations I#2) - The Abomination captured Janis and had his minion
Kaspin use his psychic powers to torture her for information on
Betty-6's whereabouts. Despite her pain, Janis refused to reveal her
friends' location. Kaspin, however, felt sympathy for Janis, and he
allowed her to escape. Upon hearing of Janis's escape, the Abomination
was furious. He tasked the bounty hunter Quarry with locating and
capturing Janis.
(Abominations I#3) - Quarry pursued Janis through the sewers and tunnels
beneath Dystopia. Janis fled to the time machine, and programmed it to
send her into the past to seek the Hulk's aid once again. However,
Quarry jumped onto the time platform just as it activated, sending both
of them into the past.
(Incredible Hulk II#443) - Janis emerged through a portal in the sky
over Alaska and tumbled down to Earth. After getting her bearings, Janis
used a device in her possession to set off searching for Bruce Banner. A
short time later, Quarry emerged from the portal as well, in pursuit of
Janis.
Wounded and exhausted from her travels, Janis
stumbled into a nearby tavern and collapsed into unconsciousness. The
local people in the tavern, mistaking Janis for an arsonist who had just
set a forest fire, bound her to a chair. As the locals interrogated and
threatened her, Quarry located Janis and began to massacre all those in
the tavern. Just as Janis escaped from her bonds, the Hulk arrived as
well and defeated Quarry. In the aftermath, Janis joined the Hulk,
climbing onto his back as he leaped away.
(Incredible Hulk II#444 (fb)) - Janis fell ill from the strains of time
travel and from exposure in the Alaskan wilderness. The Hulk brought
Janis to an underground Pantheon safe house in Maryland to recuperate.
Janis awoke, weak from fever, just in time to observe the Hulk fall
under the mental control of Onslaught and leap away.
(Incredible Hulk II#444) - Janis continued to recuperate in the
underground Pantheon safe house. As she awoke from her rest, she saw the
Pantheon member Ajax standing over her, asking who she was.
(Incredible Hulk II#445) - The Pantheon members continued to monitor
Janis's recovery and to provide medical treatment. Janis awoke from
sleep and spoke with the Pantheon member Atalanta, although neither
trusted the other, and both refused to shed light on their respective
identities and origins.
(Incredible Hulk II#446) - Janis recovered her strength and attempted to
escape from the Pantheon safe house, using her energy staff to break
open her locked door. Atalanta and Ajax confronted Janis and tried to
block her escape, but Janis outmaneuvered them and escaped from the
Pantheon facility. By the side of the road, Janis hitchhiked and was
picked up by Alex Wildman and his friends in their van, who were on
their way to New York City.
(Incredible Hulk II#447) - Alongside Alex Wildman and his friends, Janis
arrived in New York's Central Park, where hundreds of people were
holding a vigil for the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and other heroes who
were thought lost following their battle with Onslaught. In the
aftermath of the battle with Onslaught, the Hulk's form was frozen,
encased in an unknown substance, and Janis and many others gathered
around the military perimeter set up around the Hulk's body. Janis
watched the Hulk from afar until, at long last, the Hulk broke free of
the steel-like substance that covered him. As soon as the Hulk broke
free, the United States military as well as members of the Pantheon
attacked him. Janis came to the Hulk's aid, using her staff to shoot
down a military helicopter. Janis then rejoined the Hulk, climbing on
his back as he leaped away.
Although it was not
revealed immediately, Bruce Banner's essence had been sent to the
Counter-Earth created by Franklin Richards to save Earth's heroes from
Onslaught, while the Hulk who remained on Earth, lacking Banner, began
to destabilize.
(Incredible Hulk II#448) - Janis and the Hulk continued to hide out in
the wilderness. Janis shared with the Hulk that, following the Maestro's
fall, a new tyrant had seized control in Dystopia, and that this was the
reason she had traveled back in time to seek out the Hulk to aid them
once again. Janis went on to explain that the device she'd used to
travel into the past appeared to no longer be functional, leaving her
stranded, and that as long as she was stuck in the past, she intended to
remain by the Hulk's side and help him.
Meanwhile, the United States government asked the
Pantheon to take down the Hulk. Before long, the Pantheon members Ajax,
Atalanta, Cassiopeia, Jason and Hector arrived at the Hulk and Janis's
campsite and attacked. The Hulk and Janis held their own against the
Pantheon until Cassiopeia temporarily blinded all observers to the
fight. In the confusion, the Pantheon faked killing the Hulk, leaving a
fatally wounded cloned Hulk body for the government to find. The
Pantheon then explained to the Hulk and Janis that they wanted the Hulk
to rejoin them as a member of the Pantheon, and they had orchestrated
their fight with the Hulk as a ruse to throw the government off the
Hulk's trail. The Hulk emphatically declined the Pantheon's invitation,
tearing a hole through the side of their ship and leaping away with
Janis.
Shortly thereafter, Janis accompanied the Hulk as he
confronted the military leaders who sought his capture. Speaking on the
Hulk's behalf, Janis explained that, going forward, each time the United
States government tried to capture or attack the Hulk, he would
retaliate by launching a counter-attack of his own ("You
attack him in New Mexico...three days later he trashes LA. And he'll
make sure everyone knows you provoked him"). With that, the
Hulk and Janis leaped away.
(Incredible Hulk Annual 1997) - As they traveled on, Janis asked Hulk if
they could stop for rest. The Hulk brought Janis to a nuclear power
plant, reasoning that the government could not attack them there and
risk a nuclear incident.
Meanwhile, a psionic alien entity known as Elamron, a
being who cycled through different physical bodies, had taken on the
form of a small child genetically modeled on Bruce Banner. The Pantheon
happened upon the boy and took him in, believing him to be the long lost
offspring of Bruce Banner. At the same time, Gladiator and Oracle of the
Shi'ar Imperial Guard also detected the entity and determined his true
nature. When, a short time later, the Shi'ar attacked the Pantheon's
base in search of Elamron, Prometheus and Doc Samson fled, taking the
boy with them in search of the Hulk.
Pursued by the Shi'ar, Doc Samson located Janis and
the Hulk in the woods and introduced them to "David Banner." Moments
later, the Shi'ar arrived and explained Elamron's true nature, after
which they announced their intention to take Elamron into custody to
punish him for crimes he committed in a prior incarnation -- crimes of
which he had no memory. When Janis sprung to Elamron's defense,
Gladiator grabbed Janis by the throat. The Hulk, enraged, attacked
Gladiator, and their battle carried them away. Janis, meanwhile,
attacked Oracle with her staff. Eventually, the Hulk defeated Gladiator
and Oracle and left them unconscious, and Elamron (still in the form of
David Banner) fled into the woods. The Hulk and Janis departed the scene
before the Shi'ar awakened. Doc Samson speculated that Elamron likely
abandoned his David Banner form a short time later.
(Incredible Hulk II#449) - The Thunderbolts attacked the Hulk and Janis
as they traveled across Arizona. Mach-1 launched a rocket at the Hulk
and Janis while they were in midair, sending Janis plummeting to the
earth. As Mach-1 sought to catch Janis, she fought him off with her
staff, and then used her staff's energy blasts to slow her descent. Once
back on solid ground, Janis raced to rejoin the Hulk, who was fighting
all the Thunderbolts at once. Janis rejoined the fight, attacking
Meteorite, Mach-1, and Songbird with her staff. The fight ended when the
Hulk broke a hole in a nearby dam, and the Thunderbolts broke off combat
in order to plug the hole and rescue the imperiled town beneath the dam.
The Hulk and Janis made their escape.
(Incredible Hulk II#450) - In retaliation for the US Government having
sent the Thunderbolts after him, the Hulk, with Janis in tow, attacked
Los Angeles, trashing the famous Hollywood Sign and toppling several
attractions at Universal Studios Hollywood. Janis observed as the Hulk
appeared to grow mentally unbalanced and confused. Janis tried to talk
the Hulk through his confusion and to reason with him. Before Janis
could make any progress, however, a crazed Alex Wildman attacked the
pair. Wildman swiftly incapacitated Janis, turning his fingers
immaterial and then solidifying them in her head, knocking her
unconscious. The Hulk continued to battle Wildman until Doctor Strange
arrived and, interrupting their fight, spiriting the Hulk away to assist
him in another quest.
Moments later, Janis awakened from Wildman's attack
and saw yet another alternate Hulk, the Hulk of Earth-9722, standing
over her.
(Incredible Hulk II#453 (fb) - BTS) - The Hulk-9722 explained to Janis
that he had come from an alternate future. In Hulk-9722's timeline,
after he had been brought into the future to oppose the Maestro, he had
killed Maestro and replaced him as ruler of Dystopia, losing his mind in
the process. Eventually, he recovered his sanity and found a way to
leave the Maestro's world and return to his own time. When he attempted
to do so, however, he was drawn instead to Earth-616. Upon discovering
himself there, he made it his mission to find the Hulk of Earth-616 and
warn him against the dangers of becoming the Maestro.
(Incredible Hulk II#451 (fb) - BTS) - Janis and the Hulk-9722 traveled
to the apartment of Rick Jones and Marlo Chandler Jones to seek their
counsel and assistance.
(Incredible Hulk II#451) - Janis sneaked into Rick Jones' apartment and
hid herself from view. Janis observed as Henry Peter Gyrich arrived and
briefly argued with Rick Jones over Rick's complicity in the Hulk's
rampages.
(Incredible Hulk II#452) - Janis made her presence known to Rick and
Marlo, greeting them and introducing them to the Hulk-9722.
Meanwhile, the mentally unbalanced Hulk-616 claimed
the island of Duck Key (one of the Florida Keys) as his own personal
island sanctuary. Janis and Hulk-9722, learning of this, traveled to the
Florida Keys and confronted the Hulk, imploring him to abandon his
plans. The Hulk refused.
(Incredible Hulk II#453) - Janis and Hulk-9722 confronted the Hulk and
tried to get him to listen to reason. The Hulk refused, and soon the
Hulk and Hulk-9722 were battling across the island of Duck Key. One of
the locals, Mike Flannagan, who had become a steadfast supporter of the
Hulk following his takeover of the island, came to the Hulk's aid and
attacked Janis, but she quickly knocked him unconscious with her staff.
During their battle, the Hulk-616, still disoriented
following his battle with Onslaught, became distracted by hallucinations
of people from his past. The Hulk of Earth-9722 took advantage of the
lull in the fighting, explaining his origins and warning the Hulk
against a dark future in which he became the Maestro. The Hulk, still
feeling angry and adrift, rejected Hulk-9722's outreach, and continued
his rampage across Duck Key. Before long, Hulk-9722 was drawn back into
his own universe and disappeared, as Janis helped bystanders reach
safety. The Hulk's rampage eventually ended when Col. Cary St. Lawrence
persuaded the Hulk to end his dominion over Duck Key, and the Hulk
departed, leaving Janis behind.
(Incredible Hulk II#455) - Janis evaded the police in Orlando, Florida.
Following a near-run in with the police, Janis rendezvoused with Rick
Jones, hopping into his convertible and driving away. The two then set
off in search of the Hulk.
(Incredible Hulk II#456) - The Hulk encountered the mutant Apocalypse
(En Sabah Nur), who turned him into War, one of the Horsemen of
Apocalypse, and corrupted his mind in the process. Apocalypse was
opposed by the shadowy organization known as the New World Order.
(Incredible Hulk II#456) - Rick Jones and Janis drove through New
Orleans, Louisiana as they continued tracking down the Hulk. As they
drove on, the Absorbing Man stopped their car and enlisted their aid.
The Absorbing Man, in the employ of the New World Order, had been tasked
with bringing the Hulk to heel, and he asked Rick and Janis to reason
with the Hulk and try to break Apocalypse's influence. Rick and Janis
traveled with Absorbing Man to Egypt, where Apocalypse kept his base of
operations. As Rick and Janis approached the Hulk/War, still under
Apocalypse's influence, attacked them. The Hulk promptly shattered the
Absorbing Man into pieces and then turned his attention to Rick and
Janis. The Hulk resisted Rick and Janis's attempts to reason with him,
and the pair were saved only by the last second arrival of the
Juggernaut, also acting in the employ of the New World Order.
(Incredible Hulk II#457) - The Absorbing Man recovered from his wounds
and took Janis and Rick with him as he followed the Hulk's trail of
destruction into the heart of Cairo, Egypt. Janis helped protect
civilians from the falling debris as the Hulk battled both the Absorbing
Man and Juggernaut. Rick and Janis then approached the Hulk and tried to
reason with him. The Hulk, however, was still strongly under
Apocalypse's influence, and he lashed out and sent Rick Jones flying
against a wall, seriously injuring him. The act of injuring his closest
friend finally began to jar the Hulk out of his mind control. Janis
raced to Rick's side, and she watched as the Hulk leaped away.
(Incredible Hulk II#458) - As Rick Jones received treatment for his
wounds at a hospital, Janis hid in the air vents and observed him. Janis
overheard as the doctors shared that Rick had sustained a spinal injury
and may have been rendered paraplegic. Janis contemplated whether Rick's
injury she had just witnessed was the cause of her great grandfather
being wheelchair-bound in her own future timeline.
Comments: Created by Peter David and George Perez
Late in Peter David's run on the Incredible Hulk, he introduced a handful of stories and ideas which were not seen through to completion due to his abruptly leaving the title in 1998. Janis was one of those plots which became abandoned, as she had become a recurring supporting character only recently, and her story was never seen through. Accordingly, as of summer 2026, Incredible Hulk II#458 remains the last chronological appearance of Janis Jones of Earth-9200. She was last seen hiding in an air vent observing the injured Rick Jones. Surely, there are more stories to be told! Here's hoping the character is revived in the not too distant future.
In her early appearances, Janis is referred to as Rick Jones' great granddaughter. In later appearances, she is sometimes referred to as his granddaughter.
Janis's home on Dystopia is stated to be approximately one century in the future. Although Janis debuted nearly 35 years ago as of this writing in summer 2026, due to the nature of Marvel's sliding timescale, Dystopia will always be about a century in the future.
This profile was completed 06/15/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary 's celebratory event to represent the Maestro/Earth-9200/Dystopia's characters and stories
Profile by Stunner.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Janis Jones should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect I#1-2 (December
1992-January 1993) - Peter David (writer), George Perez
(penciler/inker), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#443-#446 (July 1996 - October 1996) - Peter David
(writer), Angel Medina (penciler), Robin Riggs (inker), Bobbie Chase
(editor)
Incredible Hulk II#447-#449 (November 1996 - January 1997) - Peter David
(writer), Mike Deodato Jr. (penciler), Tom Wegrzyn (inker), Bobbie Chase
(editor)
Incredible Hulk II#450 (February 1997) - Peter David (writer), Jeff
Rebner (artist), Tom Wegrzyn (inker), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#451-#453 (March 1997 - May 1997) - Peter David
(writer), Mike Deodato Jr. (penciler), Deodato Studios (inker), Bobbie
Chase (editor)
Incredible Hulk Annual 1997 - Chris Cooper (writer), Jeff Rebner
(penciler), Mark Irwin (inker), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#454 (June 1997) - Peter David (writer), Adam Kubert
(penciler), Mark Farmer (inker), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#455 (August 1997) - Peter David (writer), Adam Kubert
(penciler), Dan Green (inker), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#456 (September 1997) - Peter David (writer), Adam
Kubert and Joe Kubert (pencillers), Mark Farmer (inker), Bobbie Chase
(editor)
Incredible Hulk II#457 (October 1997) - Peter David (writer), David
Brewer (penciler), Cam Smith (inker), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#458 (November 1997) - Peter David (writer), Adam
Kubert (penciler), Mark Farmer (inker), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Abominations I#1 (December 1996) - Ivan Velez Jr. (writer), Angel Medina
(penciler), Brad Vancata (inker), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Captain Marvel IV#30 (May 2002) - Peter David (writer), Chris Cross
(penciler), Anibal Rodriguez and Rich Perotta (inkers), Tom Brevoort
(editor)
Hulk: Broken Worlds I#1/4 (March 2009) - Peter David (writer), Rodney
Buchemi (penciler), Greg Adams (inker), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Maestro I#2-5 (November 2020 - February 2021) - Peter David (writer),
German Peralta (artist), Wil Moss (editor)
Maestro: World War M I#1 (April 2022) - Peter David (writer), German
Peralta and Pasqual Ferry (artists), Wil Moss and Alanna Smith (editors)
Maestro: World War M I#3-4 (May - June 2022) - Peter David (writer),
German Peralta (artist), Wil Moss and Alanna Smith (editor)
Maestro: World War M I#5 (September 2022) - Peter David (writer),
Sebastian Cabrol (artist), Wil Moss and Alanna Smith (editor)
First posted: 09/23/2026
Last updated: 09/20/2026
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