Invisible Woman

As detailed in The Marvel Saga: Official History of The Marvel Universe #16, Susan Storm, and her younger brother, Jonathan grew up in the town of Glenville, Long Island, children of a physician named Franklin Storm and a woman named Mary.

The parents left their kids alone one night to travel to a dinner honoring Dr. Storm.

On the way, a tire blew out but only Mary was injured. Franklin escaped injury and insisted on operating on his wife.

He was unable to save her and she died.

After his wife's death, Dr. Franklin Storm became a gambler and a drunk, losing his medical practice, which led him to the accidental killing of a loan shark.

Franklin did not defend himself in court, because he still felt guilty over Mary's death.

With their father in prison, Susan had to become a mother figure for her younger brother.

While living with her aunt, Susan, at the young age of 17, met her future husband, Reed Richards, a house guest who was attending college.

When she graduated from high school as the award-winning captain of her Girls' Varsity Swim Team, she moved to California to attend college, where she pursued an acting career and encountered Richards again.

They began to become romantically involved with each other.

Reed Richards, working in the field of Aerospace engineering, was designing a spacecraft for interstellar travel.

Everything was going well until the government stopped the funding of his project. Richards, wanting to see his project through, decided to make an unscheduled test flight.

Originally, it was only going to be Reed and his best friend, Ben Grimm, involved, but Susan was instrumental in persuading Reed in letting her brother and herself join them on the dangerous space mission.

In space, the quartet was exposed to massive amounts of cosmic radiation.

As a result, they had to abort the mission and return to Earth.

After the crash landing, they realized that they gained superhuman powers; hers was the ability to become invisible at will.

Realizing the potential use of their abilities, the four of them became the Fantastic Four, for the benefit of mankind.

Susan adopted the code name "Invisible Girl"

As the Fantastic Four, the team found themselves setting up their first headquarters in the Baxter Building in Manhattan.

The first supervillain they battled was the Mole Man, followed soon after that by the Skrulls.

The Fantastic Four encountered many villains in the early part of their career, but none of them contended for Susan's affections more than Namor the Sub-Mariner.

Sue felt an amount of attraction to Namor, but her heart belonged with Reed.

Soon after that, the Fantastic Four encountered Doctor Doom for the first time.

Initially, her powers were limited to making herself invisible. However, before long Sue discovered she could make other things invisible as well as create force fields of invisible energy.

After Susan is injured in battle with the Mole Man, her father escaped from prison and operated on her to save her life.

Franklin made amends with his children before returning to prison; however, the Super-Skrull found a way to kidnap Dr. Storm, mimic his appearance, and then fight the Fantastic Four as the Invincible Man.

In the process of defeating the Super-Skrull, Dr. Storm sacrificed his own life to protect the Fantastic Four from a Skrull booby trap.

Reed and Sue's relationship progressed, with the two of them deciding to get married.

The wedding was the event of the century, with several of New York City's preeminent superheroes in attendance.

Even several supervillains wanted to attend, if only for the chance to attack the Fantastic Four.

Not long after that, Susan and the Fantastic Four encountered Galactus and the Silver Surfer for the first time.

Sue later became pregnant with her first child.

As a result, she took time off as an active member of the team. Johnny's then-girlfriend, the Inhuman elementalist known simply as Crystal, joined the team, taking over Susan's roster spot.

Susan's cosmic ray irradiated blood cells served as an obstacle for her in carrying the unborn child to term.

Knowing this, Reed, Johnny, and Ben journeyed into the Negative Zone to acquire the Cosmic Control Rod from Annihilus.

Effectively utilizing the device, the baby was safely delivered and was named Franklin, in memory of Susan's father.

Due to the genetically altered structure of his parents, Franklin was born a mutant, possessing vast powers of the highest possible potential.

Seeking to use the boy's talents for his own sadistic purposes, Annihilus returned and successfully triggered a premature full release of Franklin's latent abilities, which were already in the process of gradual emergence.

Fearing that his son could very well release enough psionic energy to eliminate all life on Earth, Reed was forced to shut Franklin's mind down, feeling there was no immediate alternative.

Angry with Reed for not seeking her input in the matter, Susan left the Fantastic Four and had a marital separation from Reed.

Taking her roster spot was Medusa, of the Inhumans.

With the help of Namor, Susan reconciled with Reed and returned to the Fantastic Four accompanied by Franklin.

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