The Avengers #186 [Newsstand]
(August 1979)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Barcode
0714860245808
Editing
Jim Salicrup (assistant editor); Roger Stern (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue features the first appearance of a Chthon-possessed Scarlet Witch, a "Dark Scarlet Witch", so to speak. It anticipates, in many ways, the Dark Phoenix character, by the same artist, that first appeared in The X-Men #134 (June 1980).
This issue is a variant of The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #186 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Enter... Modred the Mystic! (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Byrne (signed as BYRNE)
Inks
Terry Austin (signed as austin)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
the Darkhold book; Modred the Mystic; The Avengers [the Scarlet Witch; Vision; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Beast; Wasp [Janet Pym]; Falcon]
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #186 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for The Avengers (1963 series) #186 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for The Avengers (1963 series) #186 [British]
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Nights of Wundagore! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Avengers / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Mark Gruenwald (plot); Steven Grant (plot); David Michelinie (plot, script)
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
Dan Green
Colors
Roger Slifer
Letters
Jim Novak
Job Number
LG458
First Line of Dialogue or Text
High above the sun-streaked village of east Transia...
Feature Logo
The Mighty Avengers!
Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [the Beast; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; the Falcon; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Quicksilver (origin, details); the Scarlet Witch (origin, details); the Vision; the Wasp [Janet Pym]]; Bova; Chthon (introduction); Django Maximoff; Edwin Jarvis; Henry Peter Gyrich; the High Evolutionary (flashback); Jonathan Drew (flashback); Magda (introduction, wife of Magneto, mother of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, flashback); Modred the Mystic; Robert Frank [the Whizzer] (flashback); Madeline Joyce Frank [Miss America] (flashback, death)
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Indexer Notes

Magneto revealed as father of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch via the appearance of Magda in X-Men #125. The origin of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch storyline discussed in detail by Mark Gruenwald in the letters page of Avengers #192. This information added 2005 by Steven Tice.

The Adventures of Gritboy (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Grit newspaper / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page (report information)

The Next Time You're Shopping For Good Comics... Wear Your Sunglasses! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Marvel Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jim Salicrup
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters on The Avengers #182. Letters from Mike Labrie, Bill Krauss, and Larry Brundin.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Enter... Modred the Mystic!
    The Avengers
  2. 1. Nights of Wundagore!
    The Avengers
  3. 2. The Adventures of Gritboy
    Grit newspaper
  4. 3. The Next Time You're Shopping For Good Comics... Wear Your Sunglasses!
    Marvel Magazine
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Avengers Assemble!
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