The universe of the Scarlet Witch: Quicksilver, the Vision, Agatha

This universe has a particularity: it is made of people that it lose. A broken marriage, faded children, a brother with whom the relationship is deteriorating, an ambiguous mentor.

Few entourages are so systematically built on disappearance. This is what explains the character's trajectory - and, indirectly, what she ends up doing to her team.

Quicksilver: the inseparable brother

Both characters appear in the same number, in 1964, on the same side, and changed sides together a year later.

This inseparability has a direct and important collection consequence: their key numbers are identical. First appearance, time with the heroes, several subsequent events — everything is shared.

A collector who aims for one therefore mechanically obtains the other. It's pretty favorable: two characters for the price of one, with two requests that support each other.

The relationship itself deteriorates over the decades, and that's what makes it interesting: it goes from absolute loyalty to mutual distrust, with no clear break.

The Vision: the most commented wedding in the catalog

Avengers #57(1968) introduces a synthetic being created to infiltrate the team, who immediately joins them.

Their union, in 1975, constitutes one of the few lasting relationships in this catalog to have been treated over several decades rather than suggested and then forgotten.

This corpus highlights what distinguishes it: the story takes seriously the question posed by such a relationship - can a manufactured being experience something? — instead of dodging it. The two limited series from the 1980s are largely devoted to it.

Collection point:Avengers #57 is a major indirect key, driven by a request specific to the Vision. It is therefore expensive for reasons that do not concern Wanda – a configuration that this file presents repeatedly.

Agatha Harkness: the ambiguous mentor

Fantastic Four #94(1969) introduces an elderly witch who becomes his mentor in magic.

The relationship is more interesting than simple learning. This figure never behaves like a protector: she instructs, she observes, she judges — and her affection, if there is affection, does not prevent her from acting against her student when she deems it necessary.

Indirect key to know: this number belongs to the market Fantastic Four, once again according to the dominant logic of this file.

Children: the character's hidden subject

Here is the most important element of this universe, and the least obvious.

The question of the descendants of this character goes through forty years of publication, in changing forms: children appear, disappear, turn out to have never existed, then return in another form.

This thread directly explains the two disasters of 2004 and 2005. It is not an unexplained madness that pushes the character to destroy his team and then rewrite reality — it is a loss, repeated and never repaired.

This corpus emphasizes this point because it is often poorly reproduced. The summaries speak of “uncontrollable powers”; the material tells something else, and of much better quality.

Collection strategy

Three recommendations specific to this universe.

Agree to pay for others. This is the constant of this file: X-Men #4 belongs to the X-Men market, Avengers #57 to that of the Vision, Fantastic Four #94 to that of the Fantastic Four. None of his indirect keys are cheap, because none of them belong to him.

Exploit the inseparability with his brother. A single purchase covers two characters, and two requests support the same number. This is the only structural advantage of the file.

Aim for the limited series from the 1980s. These are the only titles where the couple is the subject, they complement each other completely, and they remain inexpensive - the only real opportunity in this entourage.

As always, condition and gradation determine value; relying on real recent sales is strongly recommended.

For the complete selection, see ourkey numbersand ourcollection guide.