Few longtime Avengers have had as challenging a modern era as Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch. Despite her status as a regular Avenger since Avengers #16, Wanda became one of the most polarizing “heroes” in the community during some of the 2000’s major Marvel events!
Throughout her history, Wanda has been defined by complication. Right off the bat she’s mixed up with Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, alongside her brother Quicksilver. Avengers membership grants Wanda a shot at redemption, and also leads to her ongoing romance and eventual marriage with the android Vision.
Fortunately, Wanda’s hex powers (since reclassified as chaos magic, or witchcraft) are significantly more confusing than her comic book history. I’ve outlined a detailed essential reading order for Scarlet Witch comics below!
Scarlet Witch Comic Book Reading Order
Collects: Uncanny X-Men #4 To #7, #11
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Wanda and Pietro join the brotherhood of evil mutants! It’s an inauspicious debut for the future Avengers, as X-Men villains.
Collects: Avengers #16 To #30
Wanda quickly graduates beyond the “We might be the guys” nomenclature of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and joins the Avengers with brother Quicksilver! It’s the redemption tour Avengers lineup, as Wanda, Pietro, and Hawkeye join Captain America to atone for past criminal activity.
Avengers Origins: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver
Collects: Avengers Origins: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #1
A modern retelling of Wanda’s origins as the Scarlet Witch.
Collects: Avengers (1963) 31-58, Annual (1967)1-2, X-Men (1963) 45, Not Brand Echh (1967) 5, 8
Collects: Avengers Origins: Vision #1
Collects: Avengers (1963) 59-88, Incredible Hulk (1968) 140, Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) 17, Material From Not Brand Echh 12
Avengers: The Complete Celestial Madonna Saga
Collects: Avengers (1963) 124-125, 129-135; Captain Marvel (1968) 33; Giant-Size Avengers 2-4; Avengers: Celestialquest 1-8
The origin of the Vision!
Scarlet Witch and the Vision
Collects: Marvel Team-Up #41 To #43
Collects: Avengers #181 To #187
Avengers: Vision and the Scarlet Witch
Collects: Giant-Size Avengers #4 And Vision And The Scarlet Witch #1-4
Collects: Marvel Team-Up #129 To #130
Avengers: Absolute Vision Book 1
Collects: Avengers (1963) #231-241, Avengers Annual #11-12, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16, Fantastic Four (1961) #256, And Doctor Strange (1974) #60
Avengers: Absolute Vision Book 2
Collects: Avengers (1963) #242-254, Avengers Annual #13
Avengers: Vision & The Scarlet Witch – A Year in the Life
Collects: Vision And The Scarlet Witch (1985) #1-12, And West Coast Avengers (1985) #2
Avengers: West Coast Avengers Omnibus
Collects: West Coast Avengers (1984) 1-4; Iron Man Annual 7; Avengers (1963) 250; West Coast Avengers (1985) 1-16; Vision And The Scarlet Witch (1985) 1-2; Avengers Annual (1967) 15; West Coast Avengers Annual 1; Material From Avengers (1963) 239, 243-244, 246; Material From Avengers West Coast 10
Collects: Solo Avengers #5
Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch and the West Coast Avengers
Avengers West Coast: Vision Quest
Collects: Avengers West Coast 42-50
Avengers West Coast Visionaries – John Byrne, Vol. 2: Darker than Scarlet
Collects: Avengers West Coast #51-57 And #60-62
Avengers – West Coast Avengers: Along Came A Spider-Woman
Collects: Avengers West Coast 58-59, 63-75
Collects: Dr. Strange, Sorceror Supreme 31-36
Wanda plays a major role alongside Doctor Strange during the Infinity Gauntlet tie-ins!
Avengers Epic Collection: Operation Galactic Storm
Collects: Avengers (1963) 345-347, Avengers West Coast 80-82, Quasar 32-36, Wonder Man (1991) 7-9, Iron Man (1968) 278-279, Thor (1966) 445-446, Material From Captain America (1968) 398-400
Collects: Avengers West Coast 89-91, Annual 8; Vision (1994) 1-4
Avengers: The Death of Mockingbird
Collects: Avengers West Coast 92-100, 102; Spider-Woman (1993) 1-4; Material From Marvel Comics Presents (1988) 143-144
Avengers: Scarlet Witch by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Collects: Scarlet Witch 1-4, Avengers Origins: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver 1; Material From Marvel Team-Up (1972) 125; Solo Avengers 5; Marvel Comics Presents (1988) 60-63, 143-144; Mystic Arcana: Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch Enters The 2000’s – Disassembled and House of M!
The Avengers by Kurt Busiek & George Pérez Omnibus Volume 1
Collects: Avengers (1998) #1-23, 0, 1 Rough Cut; Iron Man (1998) #7; Captain America (1998) #8; Quicksilver #10; Avengers Annual ’98, ’99; Avengers Forever #1-12
Avengers by Kurt Busiek & George Perez Vol. 2 Omnibus
Collects: Avengers 24-56, 1 1/2, Annual 2000-2001; Thunderbolts 42-44; Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet; Maximum Security 1-3; Avengers: The Ultron Imperative
Read Avengers issues up to #34 before starting Maximum Security. Annual 2000 is read between Avengers #27 and #28.
Collects: Avengers #500-503; Avengers Finale
The biggest Scarlet Witch story of the 2000’s comes hand in hand with the modern Marvel era of events.
Collects: House Of M #1 To #8
Collects: New Avengers #26
The return of the Scarlet Witch following House of M
Mighty Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest
Collects: Mighty Avengers #21 To #26
Collects: Mighty Avengers #27 to #32
Collects: Avengers: The Children’S Crusade 1-9, Avengers: The Children’S Crusade – Young Avengers 1, Uncanny X-Men 526 (B Story)
Marvel NOW! Scarlet Witch and the Uncanny Avengers
Collects: Uncanny Avengers #1 To #5
Uncanny Avengers Volume 2: The Apocalypse Twins
Collects: Uncanny Avengers 6-11, 8Au
Uncanny Avengers Volume 3: Ragnarok Now
Collects: Uncanny Avengers 12-17
Uncanny Avengers Volume 4: Avenge the Earth
Collects: Uncanny Avengers 18-22
Uncanny Avengers Volume 5: Axis Prelude
Collects: Uncanny Avengers 23-25, Magneto 9-10, Uncanny Avengers Annual 1
Collects: Avengers & X-Men: Axis 1-9
Uncanny Avengers Vol. 1: Counter-Evolutionary
Collects: Uncanny Avengers 1-5
Collects: Mystic Arcana: Scarlet Witch #1
Wanda After Secret Wars (2015)
Scarlet Witch Vol. 1: Witches’ Road
Collects: Scarlet Witch 1-5
Scarlet Witch Vol. 2: World of Witchcraft
Collects: Scarlet Witch 6-10
Scarlet Witch Vol. 3: The Final Hex
Collects: Scarlet Witch 11-14, Uncanny Avengers Annual 1
Collects: Secret Empire #0 To #8
Heaven forbid a Marvel event the temptation to turn Scarlet Witch into a mini Dark Phoenix.
Uncanny Avengers: Unity Vol. 5: Stars and Garters
Collects: Uncanny Avengers 26-30
Wanda makes her return to the Avengers Unity squad, and Rogue is, once again, not happy about it.
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