The Vision is actually one of many Avengers to join the team after a beginning as a potential threat. Much like Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Hawkeye before him, the Vision was more easily categorized as a villain in his very first brushes with the Avengers.
Of course, unlike those other longtime Avengers, the Vision is an android created by the genocidal Ultron. Vision is able to heroically overcome his programming to defy Ultron and become one of the most respected heroes in Avengers’ history.
With the Avengers, Vision began a romance and eventual marriage with Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, and even for a time had twin children. Their romance has met several complications throughout the decades, most recently with Vision crafting his own android wife and children as part of Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta’s critically acclaimed twelve issue Vision series.
Below you’ll find a complete guide to Vision’s comic book appearances, from his time with the Avengers through teams like the West Coast Avengers or Avengers A.I.
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Vision Comic Book Origins With The Avengers
Avengers Epic Collection: Behold the Vision
Collects: Avengers (1963) 57-76, Marvel Super -Heroe S (1967) 17
For all intents and purposes, these are the crucial Vision origin issues in the pages of Avengers.
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 explained!
Vision and the Scarlet Witch
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
Vision Redesigned For the 90’s
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
Collects: Avengers Spotlight #23
Featuring Hawkeye and the Vision
Avengers – West Coast Avengers: Along Came A Spider-Woman
Collects: Avengers West Coast 58-59, 63-75
What If? #5 : What If the Vision Had Destroyed the Avengers?
Collects: What If #5
What If? #19 : What If the Vision of the Avengers Conquered the World?
Collects: What If #19
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 Post-Galactic Storm, Before Onslaught
Collects: Avengerse #348 To #367
Collects: Vision #1 To #4
Written by Bob Harras
Vision In the 2000’s: An Avenger Reborn!
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 (Read After Avengers #6), ’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: The Complete Collection by Geoff Johns – Volume 1
Collects: Avengers (1998) 57-63, Vision (2002) 1-4, Thor (1998) 58, Iron Man (1998) 64
Note that the first Johns’ Avengers collection overlaps with the standalone Vision Origins collection below.
Vision: Yesterday And Tomorrow
Collects: Avengers Icons: The Vision #1-4
Written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by New 52 Aquaman collaborator Ivan Reis
The Avengers: The Complete Collection by Geoff Johns Volume 2
Collects: Avengers (1998) 64-76
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.
Young Avengers by Allen Heinberg and Jim Cheung: The Complete Collection
Collects: Young Avengers 1-12, Special
Collects: Civil War #1-7
Mighty Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest
Collects: Mighty Avengers #21 To #26
Collects: Mighty Avengers #27-32
Collects: Mighty Avengers #32-36
Collects: Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1-3
Avengers Origins: Vision (2013)
Collects: Avengers Origins: Vision #1
Collects: Avengers 12.1, Age Of Ultron 1-10
A.I. Volume 1: Human After All
Collects: Avengers A.I. 1-6
Avengers A.I. Volume 2: 12,000 A.D.
Collects: Avengers A.I. 7.Inh, 8-12
All-New Vision
All-New All-Different Avengers
Collects: All-New, All-Different Avengers 1-12; Avengers 0 (All-New, All-Different Story); Free Comic Book Day 2015 (Avengers) 1 (A Story); Material From Free Comic Book Day 2016 (Civil War Ii) 1
Avengers: Unleashed Vol. 1: Kang War One
Collects: Avengers 1-6
Collects: Vision #1 To #12
Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez-Walta’s limited series is one of the best Marvel comics of the 2000’s, and easily a highpoint for the Vision.
Collects: Secret Empire #0 To #9
Vision has a rough go of things in Secret Empire, getting turned into a weapon of Hydra.
Avengers: Unleashed Vol. 2: Secret Empire
Collects: Avengers 7-11
Avengers & Champions: Worlds Collide
Collects: Avengers 672-674, Champions 13-15
The Vision and daughter Viv relationship continues most directly in this Marvel Legacy era crossover. Read Avengers then Champions issues, switching back and forth.
Avengers: No Surrender
Collects: Avengers #675 to #690, Avengers: No Road Home #1 to #10
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