Who was Hedy Lamarr, and what is this comic about?

Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, became an Austrian-American film star and wartime inventor. Encyclopaedia Britannica confirms her death on January 19, 2000, near Orlando, Florida, and describes her co-invention of a radio communications device using frequency-hopping technology during World War II. The National Women's History Museum records her 1937 escape from controlling husband and arms dealer Fritz Mandl, her Hollywood career, and her 1942 patent with composer George Antheil. The National WWII Museum explains the invention's purpose: radio-guided torpedoes whose signals could hop frequencies to resist jamming, a concept later tied to Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. Her worth is not the old contrast between beauty and brains. It is sharper: Lamarr turned a life spent being watched into a secure method for hiding a signal from machines of war.

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Page 1 of Hedy Lamarr: Hedy Lamarr: Secret Signal - Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) was sold to the world as a face. Under the spotlight, another life was already listening for machines.
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) was sold to the world as a face. Under the spotlight, another life was already listening for machines.
Page 2 of Hedy Lamarr: Hedy Lamarr: Secret Signal - Marriage to arms dealer Fritz Mandl made glamour feel like captivity. Around dinner tables, weapons talk became a dark education.
Marriage to arms dealer Fritz Mandl made glamour feel like captivity. Around dinner tables, weapons talk became a dark education.
Page 3 of Hedy Lamarr: Hedy Lamarr: Secret Signal - In 1937 she fled Mandl and Europe’s tightening shadow. A train, a ship, a new name: Hedy Lamarr.
In 1937 she fled Mandl and Europe’s tightening shadow. A train, a ship, a new name: Hedy Lamarr.
Page 4 of Hedy Lamarr: Hedy Lamarr: Secret Signal - Hollywood framed her as impossible beauty. Between takes, she kept a drafting table in her mind.
Hollywood framed her as impossible beauty. Between takes, she kept a drafting table in her mind.
Page 5 of Hedy Lamarr: Hedy Lamarr: Secret Signal - With composer George Antheil, she imagined torpedoes whose radio signals hopped like a piano roll, harder for enemies to jam.
With composer George Antheil, she imagined torpedoes whose radio signals hopped like a piano roll, harder for enemies to jam.
Page 6 of Hedy Lamarr: Hedy Lamarr: Secret Signal - The 1942 patent was filed, then mostly ignored. The war moved on; the hidden signal waited for the future.
The 1942 patent was filed, then mostly ignored. The war moved on; the hidden signal waited for the future.
Page 7 of Hedy Lamarr: Hedy Lamarr: Secret Signal - Hedy Lamarr died in 2000. The spotlight faded; the idea kept moving through Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and every signal that refuses to be trapped.
Hedy Lamarr died in 2000. The spotlight faded; the idea kept moving through Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and every signal that refuses to be trapped.