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The Invisible Girl
Here emitting invisible force balls.
Gender	Female
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Origin	Glenville, Long Island, New York
First Appearance	Fantastic Four Vol. 1, #1 (Nov. 1961)
Creator(s)	Stan Lee Jack Kirby
Alter ego	Susan Storm Richards
Aliases
Abilities	Turns invisible, can render other objects invisible and can generate invisible force fields.
Affiliations	Fantastic Four

The Invisible Girl is a fictional superhero comic book character owned by Marvel Comics. The Thing is really Susan Storm Richards, whose exposure to cosmic rays during a rocket test flight gave her the power to turn invisible, turn other objects invisible, and to project invisible force fields almost any shape she can imagine. Sue had developed from a basically passive character whose chief ability was to "hide really well" (turning invisible seemed to be her only power initially) into an aggressive powerful character whose invisible force fields can do almost anything, even lift her into the air. She is most famous for being part of the Fantastic Four, the superhero team that began what has been called the “Marvel Age of Comics” closely associated with the Silver Age of Comics.

On the left, Jessica Alba, who played the Invisible Girl in the movies, and a more modern take on Sue on the right.

Sue met Columbia University graduate Reed Richards when he was a tenant of a New York City brownstone owned by her aunt. The two struck up a friendship, and the teen aged girl developed a crush on the handsome scientist, ten years her senior. Some time later, after graduating High School, Sue went to California to try her hand at an acting career. Only modestly successful, she was delighted to learn that Reed was also living in California working on a project in rocket design. She contacted Reed, and the two of them became involved romantically, and eventually became engaged.

Reed and Sue get married.

Though Reed had developed and supervised a rocket’s construction, he was denied permission to be on board during the test flight, because he was deemed “too valuable” to risk. Frustrated, Reed decided take Sue, his old college roommate Ben Grimm, and her younger brother Johnny on an unauthorized test flight. Their exposure to an unpredicted amount of cosmic radiation transformed each of the four into the super powered adventure team, the Fantastic Four.

After the formation of the Fantastic Four, Sue and Reed married and had two children, Franklin and Valeria. Sue remains the heart and mother figure of the Fantastic Four, which has always been more like a family than a club or an organization.