Invisible Girl

From Steve's Marvel Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Invisible Girl, born Susan "Sue" Storm, is an American superhero and a member of the Fantastic Four. Following the cosmic-ray exposure that gave the Four their powers, Storm gained the ability to make any or all of her body invisible at will. As a result of later minor radiation exposure, she also has the ability to project her powers, creating invisible forcefields and make other people and objects invisible. She frequently takes a backseat to the physical action compared to her teammates, but often uses more subtle, stealthy techniques to secure the team's victory. She has been in a relationship with Mr. Fantastic since before the team's formation, and it seems like simply a matter of time before they get engaged. Namor the Sub-Mariner has regularly posed a threat to their relationship, frequently trying to "claim" Invisible Girl as his bride. Sue is the older sister of the Human Torch, Johnny Storm, and the two live together in Glenville, New York.

Biography

Origin

Sue Storm was instrumental in convincing Ben Grimm to pilot her fiancé Reed Richards' manned space flight, calling his courage into question to goad him into participating. She herself joined the mission to support Reed, and her younger brother Johnny joined in turn. The four were exposed to cosmic rays and crash-landed to earth, not only unharmed but with new powers. Sue gained the ability to make herself invisible at will, and dubbed herself the Invisible Girl.[1]

The Fantastic Four

Invisible Girl has been involved in the Fantastic Four's battles with Mole Man,[1] the Skrulls,[2] Miracle Man,[3] Namor the Sub-Mariner, and Doctor Doom.[4] During the Four's battle with the Sub-Mariner, Namor essentially attempted to blackmail Invisible Girl into being his bride in exchange for him ending his war on the human race. She nearly agreed, but Human Torch put a stop to Namor, forming a tornado to throw him back to the sea.[5] She and Namor have since developed a mutual infatuation for each other, much to the chagrin of her teammates.[6] The Four saved Planet X from destruction[7] and defeated the Puppet Master, and Thing met and fell for the villain's daughter Alicia Masters.[8] They fought off another scheme by Namor the Sub-Mariner[9] and again defeated a returning Doctor Doom. In the process, Doom inadvertently turned a shrink ray on himself, causing him to shrink into apparent nothingness.[10] They then faced and repelled the Impossible Man[11] and the Hulk,[12] and traveled to the Moon to defeat the Red Ghost and the Super-Apes, during which they also met Uatu the Watcher.[13] They then fell victim to a scheme from the returning Puppet Master that set them against Namor once more, but they held their ground in Namor's undersea palace, and Puppet Master's submarine was apparently crushed by a giant octopus.[14] The Four next defeated the Mad Thinker and his Awesome Android;[15] fought Doctor Doom through the Micro-World and their own world with the help of Ant-Man;[16][17] and trapped the invading Super-Skrull in a crater.[18]

Doctor Doom soon returned and took the hero Spider-Man—actually the teenage Flash Thompson in a regretful disguise—hostage, demanding to face the Four again. In the end, the real Spider-Man fought Doom off, leaving the Four confused.[19] Namor the Sub-Mariner committed his boldest act yet, uniting the Atlantean army to invade the surface world. Namor and his followers took over New York, but Mr. Fantastic repeled them with a machine that evaporated the water in their breathing tanks. When Invisible Girl later came into peril, Namor's affection for her took over and he saved her, upsetting many of his Atlantean followers.[20] Mr. Fantastic commandeered Doctor Doom's time machine from a previous conflict to send the team back in time to follow a lead on a potential cure for Alicia's blindness. There they faced Rama-Tut, a pharaoh who had himself time traveled there, forcing him to retreat to the future; they failed to acquire the blindness cure.[21] They then faced the Molecule Man, a threat so dire that Uatu was forced to help (to the extent that his Watcher oath allowed him), dragging Molecule Man into another dimension.[22] They then defeated the Hate-Monger[23] and the returning Mole Man; around this time, Invisible Girl was exposed to slight radiation from Mr. Fantastic testing her powers, and found that her abilities had been augmented, gaining the power to create strong, invisible forcefields by manifesting her the energy of her invisibility. Furthermore, she could turn other extant objects invisible as well.[24]

The Four defeated Doctor Doom once more, this time casting him into space via a solar wave.[25] After repelling the threat of the Infant Terrible,[26] the Four found themselves interacting with some of the other notable heroes in New York. After the Hulk arrived in New York violently seeking the Avengers, the Four teamed up with them to fend him off and protect the city.[27][28] Sub-Mariner resurfaced to kidnap Invisible Girl and attempt to take her as his wife, causing Mr. Fantastic to act out on his own and attempt to rescue her singlehandedly. While he fought valiantly, Namor's battalion of underlings gave him a severe advantage. Torch and Thing meanwhile acquired the services of the sorcerer Doctor Strange, who proved to be the deciding factor in the battle and allowed the Four to escape with Invisible Girl in tow.[29] The Four then found themselves being bizarrely accosted by the X-Men, a team of young and usually heroic mutants. They soon discovered that the X-Men were being manipulated by the Mad Thinker and the Puppet Master, and the X-Men cordially apologized after the villains had been beaten.[30]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Fantastic Four #1: "The Fantastic Four!" (November 1961) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Klein, George (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Simek, Artie (let).
  2. ↑ The Fantastic Four #2: "The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!" (January 1962) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Klein, George and Brodsky, Sol (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Duffy, John (let).
  3. ↑ The Fantastic Four #3: "The Menace of the Miracle Man!" (March 1962) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Brodsky, Sol (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Simek, Artie (let).
  4. ↑ The Fantastic Four #5: "Prisoners of Doctor Doom!" (July 1962) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Sinnott, Joe (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Simek, Artie (let).
  5. ↑ The Fantastic Four #4: "The Coming of the Sub-Mariner!" (May 1962) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Brodsky, Sol (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Simek, Artie (let).
  6. ↑ The Fantastic Four #6: "Captives of the Deadly Duo!" (September 1962) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Goldberg, Stan (c), Simek, Artie (let).
  7. ↑ The Fantastic Four #7: "Prisoners of Kurrgo, Master of Planet X." (October 1962) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Simek, Artie (let).
  8. ↑ The Fantastic Four #8: "Prisoners of the Puppet Master!" (November 1962) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Simek, Artie (let).
  9. ↑ The Fantastic Four #9: "The End of the Fantastic Four!" (December 1962) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Simek, Artie (let).
  10. ↑ The Fantastic Four #10: "The Return of Doctor Doom!" (January 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Simek, Artie (let).
  11. ↑ The Fantastic Four #11b: "The Impossible Man!" (February 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  12. ↑ The Fantastic Four #12: "The Incredible Hulk." (March 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  13. ↑ The Fantastic Four #13: "The Red Ghost and His Indescribable Super-Apes!" (April 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ditko, Steve (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  14. ↑ The Fantastic Four #14: "The Merciless Puppet Master." (May 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  15. ↑ The Fantastic Four #15: "The Mad Thinker and His Awesome Android!" (June 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  16. ↑ Fantastic Four #16: "The Micro-World of Doctor Doom!" (July 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  17. ↑ Fantastic Four #17: "Defeated by Doctor Doom!" (August 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  18. ↑ Fantastic Four #18: "A Skrull Walks Among Us!" (September 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  19. ↑ The Amazing Spider-Man #5: "Marked for Destruction by Dr. Doom!" (October 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Ditko, Steve (art), Rosen, Sam (let).
  20. ↑ Fantastic Four Annual #1a: "Sub-Mariner Versus the Human Race!" (June 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  21. ↑ Fantastic Four #19: "Prisoners of the Pharoah!" [sic] (October 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  22. ↑ Fantastic Four #20: "The Mysterious Molecule Man!" (November 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Ayers, Dick (i), Goldberg, Stan (col), Simek, Artie (let).
  23. ↑ Fantastic Four #21: "The Hate-Monger!" (December 1963) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Bell, George (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  24. ↑ Fantastic Four #22: "The Return of the Mole Man!" (January 1964) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Bell, George (i), Rosen, Sam (let).
  25. ↑ Fantastic Four #23: "The Master Plan of Doctor Doom!" (February 1964) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Bell, George (i), Rosen, Sam (let).
  26. ↑ Fantastic Four #24: "The Infant Terrible!" (March 1964) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Bell, George (i), Rosen, Sam (let).
  27. ↑ Fantastic Four #25: "The Hulk vs. the Thing." (April 1964) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Bell, George (i), Rosen, Sam (let).
  28. ↑ Fantastic Four #26: "The Avengers Take Over!" (May 1964) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Bell, George (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  29. ↑ Fantastic Four #27: "The Search for Sub-Mariner!" (July 1964) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Stone, Chic (i), Simek, Artie (let).
  30. ↑ Fantastic Four #28: "We Have to Fight the X-Men!" (July 1964) Lee, Stan (w), Kirby, Jack (p), Stone, Chic (i), Simek, Artie (let).
Retrieved from "https://stevereadsmarvel.mywikis.wiki/w139/index.php?title=Invisible_Girl&oldid=832"