30th-century earthling Sussa Paka underwent gene-altering which allowed her absolute control over her long hair. Once a member of the Legion of Super-Villains, once a Legionnaire, once a thief, Sussa has a sticky past. Spider-Girl was created in 1963 by writer Jerry Siegel (the co-creator of Superman) and artist John Forte, after a fan wrote in to the Legion letters page suggesting a character with the power of prehensile hair. She appeared as a Legion hopeful several issues later. Though she bore a strong resemblance to Marvel Comics' Medusa, whose primary attribute is also prehensile hair, Spider-Girl is actually the earlier character, appearing a year prior to Medusa's debut in 1965.