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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bento" data-source="post: 3589168" data-attributes="member: 36597">I'd suspect in the original Marvel Universe, their ages would be greatly different.  In the mid-1960s there were stories that Reed served in WW2 as an agent of the OSS.  Ben served as a marine pilot, which is where he learned to fly.  After the war they both attended ESU where they roomed and met Von Doom.  So Reed was probably born around 1922 and was 39 years old when the FF first took flight.From what I recall about Sue, the Storm family provided bording to Reed when he attended college, probably for his Masters or PHD, as he lived with Ben in a dormitory during his undergraduate years.  I recall she was a young teenager at the time, maybe 15?  So if Reed was attending grad school, this would be the early 1950s, so 15 years earlier would place her birth around 1938.  That would place Sue about 23 at the time they first took flight.So their age difference might have been a 16 years difference.</blockquote>