Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four v6 #1.

The Invisible Woman is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Susan Storm in Fantastic Four v1 #4.

Susan Storm was the daughter of Franklin Storm and Mary Storm with her being the older sister to Johnny Storm. Her father was a brilliant surgeon and a respected member of the medical community where during travel to a dinner he lost control over his vehicle after the tyre blew out. Though Franklin survived, his wife Mary was critically injured and despite his efforts he was unable to save his wife on the operating table. The shock caused him to withdraw from life as he gave up his medical practice and began to blame himself for his Mary's death. (Fantastic Four v1 #32)

According to Reed, he return to the United States working on his third doctorate, it was at this time that he moved into Marygay Dinkins home. Based on his accounts, this was when he first met Susan Storm, now a full-grown woman. He fell in love with her instantly and he began courting her, much to Marygay's approval. (Fantastic Four v4 #4)

Eventually, Reed and Sue were engaged and she became his fiancée. By this time, Reed had been developing a new prototype spaceship with his inherited money and with partial funding from the government. This required the couple to relocate to Central City, bringing Johnny with her. One night while out on a date with Reed, the couple witnessed the arrival of an alien warrior named Gormuu who sought to conquer the Earth. As the creature grew in size and was immune to military weapons, Reed determined that the creature drew its power and size increase from its ship and that the creature while growing in statue did not increase in mass. Reed developed a device to boost Gormuu's power intake. Not knowing why Reed was building the device, Ben and Sue assumed Reed was trying to help Gormuu and attempted to stop him, but the failed. Ultimately, Reed's invention worked: It increased Gormuu's size so much his molecules disbursed across the universe ending his threat. (Fantastic Four v1 #271)

Fantastic Four

Malice in Fantastic Four v1 #281.

Upon crash-landing back on Earth, Susan Storm discovered that the radiation had permanently altered her molecular matrix. While recovering in a secluded wilderness area, she became emotionally distressed during an argument with Reed Richards, which instantly triggered her newly acquired abilities and caused her physical vessel to vanish from the naked eye. Before the group could fully comprehend their mutations, a localized ground anomaly occurred, forcing the four individuals to combine their distinct cellular transformations to secure the immediate perimeter. Susan Storm officially adopted the superhero moniker Invisible Girl, joining forces with her companions to establish the Fantastic Four and commit to protecting humanity from cosmic threats. (Fantastic Four v1 #1)

Among her handlers was Nick Fury who oversaw some of her assignments and spy missions. (Invisible Woman v1 #1)

Heroes Reborn

Susan Richards in Fantastic Four v3 #2B.

The international community saw it as a test of sovereignty and protested. It resulted that Reed's invasion of Latveria was part of a plan to defeat Doom permanently and thus ensure his family's safety. Doom returned to find himself in an inescapable trap of Reed's making, which Reed had constructed in order to ensure Doom could no longer harm his family. Unaware of his plans, the rest of the Fantastic Four burst in to rescue Reed, and, in an attempt to escape, Doom possessed Sue, then Ben. While in a possessed Ben's body, Doom grabbed Johnny and vindictively threatened to break him in two if Reed did not murder his best friend. Ben temporarily broke free of Doom's control long enough to beg Reed to kill him, since he had no desire to be even indirectly responsible for Johnny's death, and Reed, left with no other choice, complied. (Fantastic Four v3 #508) While Johnny wept and Sue comforted him, Reed spent the next hour frantically trying to resuscitate his best friend but did not succeed. (Fantastic Four v3 #510)

Future Foundation

Following the death of Johnny Storm, the rest of the team renamed themselves the Future Foundation, along with Spider-Man taking the place of the Human Torch. After one of the Reed Richards of another universe who came to Earth-616 by The Bridge destroyed The Peak, Susan returned to Baxter Building while the other part of the team was battling another Richards in High Evolutionary's city. After returning from battle, Reed reunited the Future Foundation, the Avengers, the New Avengers and many other heroes to attack Attilan, who were also participating in this war. At the moment the heroes were leaving the Baxter Building, a Kree army attacked New York City. Using her power and Iron Man's armor, Sue created a force field over Manhattan but was knocked down when the force field was broken. At the same time, the Cult of the Negative Zone entered the Baxter Building and opened the Negative Zone portal after Spider-Man failed to stop them. The portal revealed a living Johnny Storm with a enslaved Annihilus. (Fantastic Four v3 #600)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Susan's various costumes in Fantastic Four v6 #47.

In appearance, Susan Storm was a human mutant-mutate female with a slender, highly athletic build and fair skin. She possessed long, vibrant blonde hair styled in a straight, flowing arrangement that fell past her shoulder blades, paired with prominent blue eyes and highly refined, delicate facial features. Her specialized combat uniform consisted of the classic attire of the Fantastic Four, featuring a form-fitting, high-collared dark blue bodysuit crafted from advanced, unstable molecule fabrics engineered to shift seamlessly alongside her unique powers. The bodysuit featured long sleeves and a distinctive, white circular emblem emblazoned across the left breast housing a stylized black number '4' motif. She wore matching short black gloves over her hands, and her footwear consisted of practical, flat dark leather boots designed for high-impact athletic maneuvers and rough terrain navigation. When operating in her civilian identity or attending high-society functions, she wore contemporary early-1960s designer dresses, high heels, and glamorous cosmetics, maintaining a highly polished, sophisticated, and elegant presentation. Upon first gaining her powers, her ability led to her first taking the moniker of the Invisible Girl. (Fantastic Four v1 #1)

Whilst operating as a secret agent, she said that she had one rule which was that she would not kill anyone on a mission. (Invisible Woman v1 #1)

Susan Storm was born the daughter of noted surgeon Franklin Richards and his wife Mary Storm. She had a younger brother by the name of Johnny Storm. (Fantastic Four v1 #32)

Her fathers sister was Marygay Storm who served as a caring aunt for Susan and cared for both her and Johnny after their mother died and father was in prison. (Before the Fantastic Four: The Storms v1 #1)

The Atlantean King Namor came to be infatuated with Susan and desired her for himself. (Fantastic Four v1 #4)

She would later become pregnant with her and Reed Richards son who they would name Franklin Richards. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #6)

The Atlantean Uhari Wu and Vi after the death of their father the king became wards of Susan Richards who looked after them. (FF v1 #1)

Powers and abilities

Stopping bullets with a force field in 4 v1 #5.

Generating force fields in Invisible Woman v1 #1.

Flying through the use of her powers in Invisible Woman v1 #1.

Susan Storm was born a member of the human race but was later biologically and molecularly augmented through intensive cosmic radiation exposure, granting her an exceptional mutate status far beyond standard human limitations. On a basic feats level, her altered physiology provided her with the standard physical strength, reflexes, and environmental durability of a young human female who engaged in regular intensive conditioning and physical drilling. She was a highly exceptional member of her species due to her classification as an elite, high-potential elemental force manipulator possessing total command over the invisible light spectrum and psionic energy fields. (Fantastic Four v1 #1)

Her primary power was light-wave manipulation, enabling her to consciously bend ambient light rays completely around her physical vessel or separate objects, rendering herself and any target she selected entirely invisible to both the human eye and high-tech technological scanning matrices. She possessed an exceptional, highly adaptive human intellect with an unyielding internal willpower, which established the structural framework for her future capacity to project raw, invisible psionic force constructs. While she entirely lacked her signature impenetrable defensive energy shields, localized flight bubbles, or offensive concussive blasts during her initial introduction, her unique biological tracking profile allowed her to maintain absolute cognitive focus while toggling her visibility without splitting her spatial orientation. (Fantastic Four v1 #1)

Her daughter taught her the principle behind colour namely bending the spectrum of light allowing her to alter the appearance of anyone. This allowed her to change not only her hair colour but also her skin tone. The ability was said to require a great deal of concentration from Susan but she could use it to alter her appearance and make her unrecognisable. (Invisible Woman v1 #3)

By bending sunlight, she could make the Sun appear anywhere she liked or bend it all the way to make it appear as night time. She could also create invisible cones to magnify sounds like a speaker thus making large noises from basic acts such as simple ground shaking. It required incredibly fine control to reproduce any sound with fidelity but for simple things such as a dull roar all she had to do was make vibrations instead. (Fantastic Four v8 #6)

After gaining her powers, she became one of the founding members of the Fantastic Four. (Fantastic Four v1 #1)

Notes

• The Invisible Woman was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where she made her first appearance in Fantastic Four v1 #1 (November, 1961).

Alternate Versions

• In Ghost-Spider v1 #6 (2016), an alternate version of Susan Storm appeared in the Spider-Gwen reality that was designated as Earth-65 in the Multiverse. This version was the daughter of noted surgeon Franklin Storm and his wife Mary Storm with Susan having a younger brother named Jonathan Storm. Her father was arrested for multiple murders that disgraced the family publicly though the Storms then reinvented themselves as social media celebrities. Susan eventually wanted more from this life and with her brother they went to Latveria to meet a reclusive scientist named Doctor Doom. Charming the man, he agreed to give them superpowers so that they could become superheroes. Undergoing a training regimen, the pair underwent an experiment that gave them powers with Susan having the ability to manipulate force fields and make herself invisible whilst her brother gained the power over fire. The two then turned on Doctor Doom where they killed him after which they decided to return to New York after missing for years and being declared dead by the public. Upon returning back, Susan believed that the city had no place for more heroes and looked to remove Ghost-Spider from the scene by any means necessary.

In other media

Television

• In Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, the Invisible Woman appeared in the setting of the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Lara Gilchrist.

Films

• In Fantastic Four, Susan Storm appeared in the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Jessica Alba.
• In Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Susan Storm appeared in the live-action film sequel where she was once again portrayed by actress Jessica Alba.

Video games

• In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, the Invisible Woman appeared in video game's DLC content "Shadow of Doom" where she was voiced once again by actress Kari Wahlgren.

Appearances

• Fantastic Four v1: (1961)
• Fantastic Four v2:
• Fantastic Four v3:
• Fantastic Four v4:
• Fantastic Four v5:
• Fantastic Four v6:
• Invisible Woman v1:
• Fantastic Four v8:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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