Andy Sheets wrote:
Drake seemed to characterize her almost like a co-leader with Cyclops, which I thought was interesting considering the general treatment of female characters back then.
I'll agree on this. Jean Grey, Sue Storm and the Wasp, the three main Marvel heroines at the time -- as well as Wanda -- were portrayed initially by Stan as weak. The only ones that was really strong of the first gen female characters were Black Widow and Medusa, and Widow didn't even have super powers!

The ironic thing is after all of these stronger (in both powers and will) female characters were introduced -- like Storm, Tigra, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Rogue, Black Cat, etc. -- the writers did a 180 on Wasp and especially Sue and Jean. Jean was the most powerful X-Man before she was killed (that's Jean, not Phoenix Force Jean) and Sue is the most powerful of the FF!

Why can't they just let her have her imaginary babies and her robot husband? Look what happens when she doesn't!