Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) Reading Order!

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

Uncanny X-Men

Collects: Uncanny X-Men #4 To #7, #11

Wanda and Pietro join the brotherhood of evil mutants! It’s an inauspicious debut for the future Avengers, as X-Men villains.

The Avengers Omnibus, Vol. 1

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.

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Avengers Origins: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver

Collects: Avengers Origins: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #1

A modern retelling of Wanda’s origins as the Scarlet Witch.

The Avengers Omnibus Volume 2

Collects: Avengers (1963) 31-58, Annual (1967)1-2, X-Men (1963) 45, Not Brand Echh (1967) 5, 8

Avengers Origins: Vision

Collects: Avengers Origins: Vision #1

The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 3

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

Marvel Team-Up

Collects: Marvel Team-Up #41 To #43

Avengers: Nights of Wundagore

Collects: Avengers #181 To #187

Avengers: Vision and the Scarlet Witch

Collects: Giant-Size Avengers #4 And Vision And The Scarlet Witch #1-4

Marvel Team-Up

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

Solo Avengers

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

Infinity Gauntlet

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

Avengers: Ultron Unbound

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.

Avengers Disassembled

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.

House of M

Collects: House Of M #1 To #8

New Avengers #26

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

Mighty Avengers: The Unspoken