ELAINE ANN WALTERS
Real Name: Elaine Ann Banner Walters
Identity/Class: Human/Astral Spirit
Occupation: Homemaker and Housewife
Group Membership: None, possibly the local Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Nicholas Trask and his criminal organization
Known Relatives: Morris Walters (husband), Jennifer (daughter, alias the She-Hulk), Brian (brother, deceased), Rebecca (sister-in-law, deceased), Bruce (nephew, alias the Hulk), Cassandra Walters-Pike (sister-in-law), David Pike (nephew, alias Brawn)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: (formerly) Los Angeles, California, (currently) The Afterlife
First Appearance: (name) Savage She-Hulk#15 (April, 1981), (actual) Sensational She-Hulk#53 (June, 1993)
Powers/Abilities:
In life, Elaine Walters possessed the normal human strength level of a woman of
her size, height and build who engages in extensive physical activities. As a
spirit, she has the normal conventional attributes of an astral spirit (ghost)
which has passed into a higher plane of existence. (Savage She-Hulk#4 (fb)) - Mobster Nicholas Trask sent a condescending red rose to Sheriff Walters at his wife's funeral.
(Savage She-Hulk#15 (fb)) - After Elaine's death, Walters moved out of the family home and
into a condo, eventually leaving the house to Jennifer. (Savage She-Hulk#1 (fb) - BTS) - From the afterlife, Elaine watched events unfold as
Jennifer became the She-Hulk for the first time following a blood
transfusion with her cousin Bruce Banner, the Incredible Hulk. (Savage She-Hulk#18 - BTS) - Memories of Elaine plied Walters' conscience as he considered selling
the family home out from under Jennifer's possession. (Savage She-Hulk#25 -BTS) - Sheriff Walters realized that his wife's death had forced both him
and Jennifer to retreat to an obsession for law and justice. (Sensational She-Hulk#53) - In the afterlife, Elaine Walters observed Jennifer in battle as the
She-Hulk with the Green Goblin and made contact with her. She told her that
she and Jennifer's friend Jill (who had died several years before at the hands of
Trask's men) didn't hold her responsible for their deaths. Elaine told her
daughter that she was proud for all she had accomplished as the She-Hulk. (Sensational She-Hulk#54) - Elaine gave Jennifer a necklace and discovered that she had not
made her peace with death. The She-Hulk's out-of-body experience with her mother
came to an end as she was yanked back to life through the efforts of Dr. Daniel
"Zapper" Ridge Jr. restoring her to life with increased dosages of
gamma radiation. Comments: Created by David Anthony Kraft, Michael Vosburgh and D. Hands
In the beginning, Jennifer's mother's name
was Ann (Savage She-Hulk#15), changed to Elaine (Savage She-Hulk#12) and reverted back to Ann (Savage She-Hulk#25), but it's given as Elaine in the She-Hulk entry in OHOTMU Deluxe Edition#18. In the original series,
Elaine's death was caused by an underworld hit on Sheriff Walters by Nicholas
Trask gone wrong, but like so many facts and aspects from the beginning, this
fact was forgotten and her accident was changed and blamed on a drunk driver. Conceivably,
Trask's hit men might have veered her into the path of the drunk driver in order
to stage an "accident." In the OHOTMU II #18
profile for the She-Hulk, it's revealed that the Banners are her mother's
family. This is confirmed in the OHOTMU Master Edition profile for the Hulk
which mentions Elaine's maiden name as Banner. Jen's surreal ordeal with
her mother in the afterlife could almost be written off as a hallucination if
but for the necklace she brings back. Sidebar, the Green Goblin
that fights the She-Hulk in the afterlife has to be Dr. Bart Hamilton since
Norman Osborn is still alive and Harry Osborn would have likely discarded that
personality after his death. Hamilton is possibly the Green Goblin in the
Legion of the Unliving II. Profile
by:
WillU CLARIFICATIONS: Elaine
Walters is not to be confused with:
Images: body - Sensational She-Hulk#53, page
28, top left w/ Jen - Sensational She-Hulk#53, page
28, top left headshot - Savage She-Hulk#25,
page 16, top left Issues:
First Posted: 06/26/2006 Any Additions/Corrections? Please let me know. Non-Marvel
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History:
Sensational She-Hulk#53 (fb)) - Elaine Ann
Walters was the wife of Sheriff Morris Walters of Los Angeles, California and the
mother of Jennifer Walters, the future She-Hulk. As a teenager, Jennifer had
decided on a dancing career,
but Morris tried to steer her to a life in law enforcement. Elaine chided him
for trying to guide Jen's life and told him to allow her to choose her own life.
(Savage She-Hulk#4 (fb), Sensational She-Hulk#53 (fb)) - Mobster Nicholas Trask made arrangements
to have Sheriff Walters killed. His men redirected a drunk driver in his car, not
realizing Walters' wife was at the steering wheel. While driving to a dance
recital Jennifer was attending, Elaine and two female friends commented about Morris not attending the recital, when without notice a car veered
straight into their path.
Savage She-Hulk#4 (May, 1980) - David Kraft (writer), Mike Vosburg (pencils), Chic Stone (inks), Mary Jo Duffy & Al Milgrom (#3) (editors)
Savage She-Hulk#15 (April, 1981) - David Kraft (writer), Mike Vosburg (pencils), Frank Springer (inks), Mary Jo Duffy (editor)
Savage She-Hulk#18 (July, 1981) - David Kraft (writer), Mike Vosburg (pencils), Frank Springer (inks), Al Milgrom (editor)
Savage She-Hulk#25 (February, 1982) - David Kraft (writer), Mike Vosburg (pencils), Al Milgrom, Sal Trapani, Mike Vosburg, Rick Magyar, Mike Gustovich, Dave Simons, Steve Mitchell, Bob Wiacek, Joe Rubinstein & Jack Abel (inks), Al Milgrom (editor)
Sensational She-Hulk#53 (June, 1993) - Michael Eury (writer), Darren Auck (pencils), Mike DeCarlo (inks), Renee Witterstaetter (editor)
Sensational She-Hulk#54 (July, 1993) - Michael Eury (writer), Patrick Olliffe (pencils), Dave Cockrum (inks), Renee Witterstaetter (editor)
Last updated: 06/25/2006
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