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Edith Finck – The Original Invisible Girl?

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nyt-0002240334-fincke_22_132663786-1_191002Yesterday, the New York Times published an obituary for Edith G Finck, also known as Edith Green and Edith Goodkind.

 

Passed away on March 3, 2017. Beloved mother of Patricia French, James and Thomas Goodkind; nannie of Nicole and Olivia Goodkind, and Alison and Timothy French. Edith Green was born in Woodmere, Long Island where she and her late sister Vivian excelled in school, and both graduated Vassar College. Edith married Robert Goodkind and raised a family in Hewlett Harbor….She later wed Marshall Finck and moved to Beverley Hills, California. Memorial services are being planned.

 

The obituary also reveals a hidden piece of comic book history.

 

For fifty years, her closest friends were Joan and Stan Lee, who used Edith as an inspiration for the Fantastic Four's Sue Richards.

There has never been any published suggestion that The Invisible Girl of The Fantastic Four was based on any specific person. Until now.

Rest in peace, Edith.

 

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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