She-Hulk Fact — November 1, 2026

Today's Fact

Checked against independent sources — the issues are cited below.

SHE-HULK'S LAW FIRM KEEPS ITS PRECEDENT LIBRARY IN A BASEMENT — AND IT IS FILLED WITH MARVEL COMICS!

The Featured Fact

Most law firms cite case reporters. The Manhattan firm of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway cites comic books. When Dan Slott launched She-Hulk Vol. 3 #1 (2004), Jennifer Walters was hired to head the firm's new Superhuman Law division — on one condition insisted on by partner Holden Holliway: at the office she works as Jennifer Walters, human, and not as the seven-foot green Avenger.

The division's secret weapon sits downstairs. Because Marvel Comics exist inside the Marvel Universe as licensed, Comics Code–approved chronicles of real events, GLK&H treats its long boxes as legal documents: a back issue can establish precedent, prove where a hero was on a given night, or settle what a power actually does. Research, for Walters' clerks, means pulling a floppy from the archive and checking the panel.

Even the firm's name is a footnote. Goodman honours Marvel's founding publisher Martin Goodman, Lieber is Stan Lee's birth surname, and Kurtzberg is Jack Kirby's — the founders of the real Marvel, filed as partners in a fictional practice. Holliway's motive was personal, too: his granddaughter Sasha, the young villain called Southpaw, needed a hero in her life, and he engineered Walters' hiring — and eventually Southpaw's remand into her custody — to provide one.

Why It's Obscure

The best research library in Marvel law is shelved by issue number, bagged and boarded.

2004

A new genre in one hiring — Slott's She-Hulk #1 (2004) turns a superhero title into a workplace legal procedural, with Walters recruited after a jury is dismissed for bias in her favour.

The basement

Precedent you can pull by hand — GLK&H routinely cites Marvel Comics, especially Comics Code–approved issues, to establish precedent in superhuman cases.

The partners

Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg — Three of the four names on the door encode Martin Goodman, Stanley Lieber and Jacob Kurtzberg, Marvel's publisher and its two defining creators.

Southpaw

A grandfather's long game — Holliway built the Superhuman Law division hoping to steer his granddaughter Sasha, the energy-gloved Southpaw, away from villainy.

Gallery

Comic art of She-Hulk and the figures named in today's fact.

She-Hulk 2004 series comic cover art — **The Slott era opens**Cover art from the 2004 She-Hulk relaunch that moved Jennifer Walters into GLK&H and turned her caseload into the series engine.

She-Hulk comic cover art — **Counsel, in green**She-Hulk in full heroic presentation — the form Holliway expressly barred from the office, where only Jennifer Walters was on the clock.

She-Hulk comic art — **The advocate Avenger**Jennifer Walters built a second career arguing for and against the costumed community she also punches alongside.

Sources

Every claim above checks out against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway (Earth-616) — Marvel DatabaseFirm profile: a Manhattan practice specialising in superhuman law, which hired Jennifer Walters and routinely cites Marvel Comics, especially Comics Code–approved issues, to establish legal precedent.
She-Hulk's Law Firm GLK&H, Explained — ComicBook.comExplains the partner-name tributes to Goodman, Lee and Kirby, Holden Holliway's role, and the basement archive of Marvel Comics used as legal documents.
The Untold Truth of She-Hulk's Law Firm GLK&H — LooperCovers the 2004 Slott run, Holliway hiring Walters in her human form only, and his granddaughter Southpaw as the reason the superhuman division exists.