[3] Thomas and Robbins concluded the plot-line in The Invaders #11 (December 1976); in the story a life-saving transfusion from original Human Torch Jim Hammond reacts with the vampire bite to give her super-speed, which she uses to take her recently invalided father's place on the team.
Thomas and Robbins continued to feature her in issues of The Invaders, including; #23 (December 1977) & #25 (February 1978), which sees her joining a mission to Egypt; and #26 (March 1978), in which she is introduced to the restored Aubrey in his role as the new Destroyer.
Roger Stern and John Byrne gave her a contemporary appearance as an aging dowager whose powers have faded for Captain America #253-254 (January–February 1981); in the story, which features the first appearances of her son Kenneth Crichton and future love interest Joey Chapman, she dismisses the idea of putting on her old costume to join Captain America's final battle against the resurrected Baron Blood.
1 #42 (February 1990); in a flashback to events following her previous appearance she is shown to be reluctant to her son Kenneth's suggestion that Joey Chapman continues as Union Jack.
2) #4 (December 1990); the story sees her in wheelchair recovering from cancer until called upon to use her powers to save a young nurse from a mutant ex-boyfriend.
Dan Slott and Rita Fagiani featured her and her son Kenneth in "Young Blood" for Marvel Comics Presents #89 (November 1991); the story is about an attempt to steal the secret of youth from her, in which she is depicted as slowly returning to a life of super-heroics and dating following her rejuvenation.
She also makes a brief supporting appearance in Fabian Nicieza and Craig Brasfield's The New Warriors #35-36 (May–June 1993); the story sees her having a night out with Namorita and calling her in the morning to check up on her.
She also appears as a supporting character in Fabian Nicieza and Lewis LaRosa's Citizen V and the V-Battalion: The Everlasting #1 (March 2002); the story begins with a flashback showing her and her future husband at Brian Falsworth's funeral in 1953 and reveals she assisted the titular fictional secret organization run by her brother's lover, Roger Aubrey.
[14] Although she had dismissed the idea of putting on her costume to assist Captain America defeat Baron Blood, she was able to summon her super-speed for the first time in a decade to save a nurse at the hospital where she was receiving treatment from a mutant ex-boyfriend.
[15] Jacqueline later aided Namorita and Union Jack in a mission to rescue Namor from the original Master Man and Warrior Woman, during which she was shot.
[17] While planning a Christmas party at Falsworth Manor,[18] Jacqueline called for a doctor to care for her ailing son, Kenneth, but ignored warnings from Union Jack, that Joey Chapman was being led down a dark path.
Jacqueline spent the next eight months mourning the death of her son who had been seduced, turned into the new Baron Blood and ultimately left to die by the Baroness.
[volume & issue needed] In battle with two Super-Skrulls, Spitfire rips out their throats with her teeth, displaying vampire traits from her Baron Blood bite that have been previously unseen.
[22] Captain Britain and MI13 writer Paul Cornell commented on her new traits, stating that: In recent years she's realized that she has actually started to be able to use certain vampiric abilities, and that the fangs appear when she gets angry.
But she feels no blood lust, and has no need to drink it, and it's all completely under her control.Even Spitfire herself shows some reservations about using her vampiric powers, as seen in the aforementioned attack on the Super-Skrulls: This is not how I am.
While she initially resisted, it seemed that he was eventually able to convince her to become one of his minions;[28] it was later revealed that Spitfire has been a double-agent the whole time, always helping Wisdom in gaining intelligence on Dracula's whereabouts.
Due to a second transfusion of artificial blood from the original Human Torch, Spitfire today has the body of a teenage girl, although she is chronologically many decades older.