“Invisible Scarlet O’Neil” ran in the comics pages of the Sun-Times, shown here in 1949. |SUN-TIMES FILE Lhota used the comic strip as a stepping-off point for her original story.

Sandra Bullock has transformed from "America's sweetheart'' to Scarlet Overkill, a world-class female supervillain in the forthcoming Minions. Yellow, pill-shaped Minions seek to serve the baddest ...