User blog comment:Nausiated/Race and Racism in Marvel Comics - From World War II to 9/11/@comment-3012197-20110816003433/@comment-61022-20110816024957

You are right about the role of women in comics. Another good example of what you are talking about is how Sue Storm was treated in the early issues of Fantastic Four. Reed told her often enough how she was "Acting too feminine" or being "too emotionally female" whenever there was danger. If memory serves me correctly, I think there is at least once instance where Reed threatened to spank Sue. I could be wrong -- That was usually Silver Age Superman's bag with Lois Lane.

However, on an oddly different level, has a back-up story where they answered fan mail and one letter questioned Sue's usefulness with the team, and Reed and the others mentioned instances where Sue was the most useful member of the team.

But you are right on the subject of Jean Grey... Up until the later end of the 60's X-Men run Jean was kind of a cookie cutter female role. But then again, most of the X-Men back then were pretty dull and on dimensional... They were just a bad rip off of the Doom Patrol at the time.