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"That's an interesting question! Certainly "Susan Storm" is a little stronger and flows better than "John Storm" or even "Johnny Storm," which makes me think the name was designed around her, not him. (Must have been Kirby's doing.)"

Well, Stan Lee always had a bit of an obsession with alliterative names. Bruce Banner, Reed Richards, Scott Summers, Peter Parker, Otto Octavius, J. Jonah Jameson, Warren Worthington, Victor Von Doom (kinda).

Though that is a common feature of lots of comic book characters, including those not created by Stan Lee.

And given the dynamic of the group, I'd guess that Sue was created before Johnny. You've got Reed, the leader, so now you need his girl (being the early 60s, she probably started off as little more than that). And then you come up with the others.