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Born in Glenville, Long Island, the daughter of medical doctor Franklin
Storm and his wife Evelyn Storm, young Sue is smitten when she meets
Reed Richards, A Columbia University graduate student 10 years her
senior, who lives in a New York apartment owned by Sue’s aunt. When
Reed moves on to Harvard, Sue continues to carry a torch for him so
much so that, some 10 years later, while trying to establish herself in
Hollywood as an actress, she looks him up at a rocket facility in
Central City. The two rekindle their romance.
It was at Sue’s insistence that she and her little brother Johnny
accompanied Reed and his best friend Ben on the maiden voyage of Reed’s
starship.
However, when their ship passed through the Van Allen belt they found
their cockpit bombarded with nearly lethal doses of cosmic radiation.
Reed had somehow neglected to account for the abnormal radiation levels
in the atmosphere. The cosmic rays wreaked havoc on the starship’s
insufficient shielding and they were forced to return to earth
immediately.
After they crash-landed, Sue was startled when she found her physical
self-starting to fade from view. In short order she realized she could
turn this ability on and off and thus the Invisible Girl was born.
Sue became a founding member of the Fantastic Four. Later she realized
that she could also create force fields. These force fields could not
only be used as a defensive weapon, but as offensive weapons as well.
This ability greatly enhanced her usefulness to the team in combat
situations.
Susan eventually married Reed and the two had a son whom they named
Franklin. Due to the mutated nature of his parents, the boy became a
mutant of immeasurable power. Susan, however, could not have been more
happy. She and Reed vowed to give him all the love and attention he
needed no matter what catastrophic event might be happening around
them.
Susan’s altered physical make-up would later lead to a miscarriage of
their second child. Trying to use the grief of this loss to his
advantage, the villain, Psycho Man, turned her into the rampaging
villain known as Malice. After Reed restored her original personality,
Susan learned while under the evil influence that her powers had far
greater capabilities than she ever suspected.
Now, Susan was arguably the most powerful member of the group. It was
shortly thereafter that she decided to change her name. Quite
appropriately, the Invisible Girl became the Invisible Woman.
In the past year Reed was apparently killed at the hands of Doctor
Doom. However unknown to his teammates at the time he was thrown back
into the time of barbarians and on to an alien world by a being called
Hyperstorm. And now an enormous responsibility was put over Sue’s head,
she had to lead the FF, as she did for the next year or so, and she has
become stronger because of this. A while later the remaining members of
the FF along with the Sub-Mariner, the Ant-Man and Lyja found
themselves trapped in the same era. With some luck they found Reed but
faced a new problem, Reed with his time alone believed it was
impossible for his old friends to return and attacked them. Upon
realizing this was really his wife he eagerly embraced her and
relinquished his assault, freed from his exile Reed sought out Galactus
as he was the only being in the Universe who could defeat Hyperstorm,
upon Hyperstorm’s defeat the FF returned to present day where they
continued their life, not only as a team but as a family.
Upon their return, the FF were encountered by a being called Onslaught,
This demon spawn took control of an army of sentinels and invaded New
York city, hunting down every metahuman being he could find. Onslaught
wished to add the abilities of the godlike Franklin Richards to his
own. Only through the Sacrifice of the Fantastic Four’s own lives and
that of most of the heroes in the marvel universe was Onslaught finally
vanquished. The hero’s would have died there and then, if not for
Franklin who created a whole alternate reality for them to reside in.
Completely oblivious to what had taken place Susan and the other heroes
relived most of their lives. During their time of absence the Fantastic
Four’s headquarters, Four Freedoms Plaza, was annihilated by a super
villain group called the Masters Of Evil posing as heroes, the
Thunderbolts. One-year later Franklin returned his family along with
the other hero’s from the parallel reality. Sue was overjoyed to see
her son again, but she and her family found themselves without a home,
moving into Reed’s storage warehouse on Pier 4, overlooking the east
river and making this their new home, the Fantastic Four continue to go
with their lives.
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