Couldn't start this blog without Miss Wanda Frank-Maximoff, prolly the Super-Heroine's super-heroine (at least in MY book, natch!)
The first comics I read featuring Wanda was the David Michelinie / John Byrne run, and also the "Marvel Triple Action" stories that reprinted the Roy Thomas / John Buscema Avengers issues (especially #47: "Mine Is The Power")...together, these two comics gave me a very complete picture of Wanda and Pietro, as in the Triple action stories we see them as young unsure characters, and jumping ahead to the #181-191 run, we see not only two very confident characters, but somewhere along the lines Wanda had married The Vision, and Quicksilver had married Crystal!
So I fell in love with the Scarlet Witch. Yes. It's True. My favorite covers were the ones that prominently featured Wanda on them, and good old George Perez never failed to deliver! Issues #171 and #161 were among the first "back issues" I purchased, and I remember my friend James getting a big box of old comics from his relatives, and one night as I browsed through the stacks, I came across Avengers #113 with Wanda defiantly cursing the crowd for striking down The Vision, and I immediately went "OOH! I...I want this issue!" To which James dismissively said, "Yeah.. I figured you would..." Hahahaha
First Appearance: X-Men #4, Jack Kirby art.
Favorite Artists for Wanda:
•George Perez, specifically the Avengers #160-172 era (especially the BRIDE OF ULTRON arc),
•John Byrne, Avengers #181-191 run, especially The Yesterday Quest, (issues #185-187)
