Sue Dibny

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Sue Dibny

Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance
Created by	John Broome (writer) Joe Giella (artist)

Characteristics

Alter ego	Susan Dearbon Dibny



Affiliations	Justice League Europe Super Buddies



Abilities	None

Susan "Sue" Dearbon Dibny is a DC Comics fictional hero known as the wife of Ralph Dibny, "the World-famous Elongated Man", a Justice League staff member and a crime novelist^[1]. She fist appeared as a supporting character in The Flash vol. 1 No. 119 (March, 1961).

1 Fictional history
2 References
3 See also

[edit] Fictional history

In the first pages of the Elongated Man's third appearance, ("The Elongated Man's under-sea trap!", The Flash vol. 1 #119, March, 1961), a newspaper front page, reveals that he has married a debutante named Sue Dearbon (this is her first appearance). It was eventually revealed that she's originally from Westchester, NY. During their honeymoon, when he's kidnapped by a race of under-sea alien fishermen while diving, she decides to call the Flash, who manages to rescue him.

During most of the original Elongated man series in Detective Comics, she's portrayed as a supportive yet frivolous wife. She never minds her husband's love for mysteries as long as he gives her money to go shopping. In this era, she rarely gets involved in his investigations; however, Ralph solved the "Puzzle of the Purple Pony" (Detective Comics #329, July 1964) on her request, and in "Peril in Paris" (Detective Comics #344, October 1965) he switches minds with a French thief.

Later, in "Make Way For the Elongated Woman" (Detective Comics #457, March 1976), one of the sporadic Elongated Man features of the 1970s, Sue pretends to have Ralphs powers in order to save him.

Thanks to a retcon made by Identity Crisis, in the contemporary version of this era, some time after Ralph joins the Justice League of America, Dr. Light found her visiting the Satellite headquarters and raped her. Ralph and the League arrived in time to take down the super villain. Ralph took her to the hospital and without the knowledge of the couple, the rest of the league resolved to mindwhipe Dr. Light (as it was their secret common practice with super villains who learn to many secrets of the JLA), additionally making him dumber.

[edit] Justice League "Detroit"

Like Snapper Carr, Sue has the distinction of being a civilian honorary member of the Justice League. When Aquaman reforms the Justice League of America to reduce its membership exclusively to full time super heroes, she's allowed as a resident at their new headquarters in Detroit.

[edit] Justice League Europe

The League is disassembled and Ralph becomes independent for a while. However a new team called Justice League International is gathered by Maxwell Lord. Eventually Ralph is called and once again Sue becomes a permanent resident with him at the Paris headquarters^[2], where she almost imediately became the monitor and and researcher^[3]. When Power Girl received a mortal trauma, she was quick to call superman without authorization, an action that ended up saving her life^[4]. Eventually, she was promoted to Chief of the Justice League Embassy. Her first decition was to update the costumes of Ralph, Power Girl and Dr. Light.

[edit] Opal City

After going to Opal City to help Starman and Hamilton Drew to solve the Black Pirate case, the couple decided to finally settle there. Sue becomes a crime novelist and in Batman: Gotham Knights #41 the Dibnys go to Gotham for a book signing. The couple join Batman disguised as Matches Malone to investigate the case, which she cracks before them.

[edit] Super Buddies

The Dibnys were recruited by Maxwell Lord to become part of Super Buddies, group of former members of the Justice League International, who would now operate as an accessible super hero service to common people. She became the administrator and monitor of the group.

In I Can't Believe It Isn't the Justice League (JLA: Classified # 4 - 9), she tries to stop Guy Gardner and a former super villain to open a bar in front of the Super Buddies station. As a recurring joke, Ralph suspect that she's pregnant, in Identity Crisis, it is reavealed that he is right.

[edit] Identity Crisis

Brad Meltzer's Identity Crisis made Sue the vortex of a series of crisis that changed the landscape of the DC Universe. She was mysteriously murdered and, lead by Ralph, the old Justice League members decided to go after Dr. Light, who given his history with her, was the prime suspect. Light seeks protection from the super villain community and gets the services of Terminator Deathstroke. When he sees him fight the Leaguers, he remembers the events around Sue's rape. The muderer turns out to be a barely sane Jean Loring, the ex-wife of the Atom. However, Dr. Light unleashes a chain reaction by reveals what happened to the super villain community, which decides to make a bigger, stronger Secret Society.

[edit] 52 and after

Some time after her death, a cult of superheroes lead by Felix Faust in disguise and Wonder Girl, atempts to resurrect her before as the first of a series of resurrections that would include Conner Kent. Ralph busts the final ritual and goes on a quest to be reunited with her, which turns out to be another Felix Faust scam. He sacrifices in order to imprission the villain along with the demon Neron. Some time afterwards the couple is seen reunited as ghosts.

After those events, both have been seen solving mysteries as ghosts. They been seen posesing bodies and making apparitions.