| ||||
Appearing in "Lovers"
Featured Characters:
- Vision (Main story and recap)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda) (Main story and recap; joins and leaves in Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and joins Avengers in recap)
Supporting Characters:
- National Security Council
- Norm Webster (First appearance)
- West Coast Avengers
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Main story and recap)
- Tigra (Greer Grant-Nelson)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark)
- Mockingbird (Bobbi Barton)
Antagonists:
- Zombies
- Lethal Legion
- Simon Williams zombie (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Invaders (Recap)
- Miss America (Madelyne Joyce) (Recap)
- Toro (Thomas Raymond) (Recap)
- Human Torch (Recap)
- Sub-Mariner (Namor McKenzie) (Recap)
- Bucky (Fred Davis Jr.) (Recap)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Recap)
- Whizzer (Robert Frank) (Recap)
- Mad Thinker (Recap)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Recap)
- Ultron-5 (Recap)
- Professor Horton (Recap)
- Avengers (Main story and recap)
Wasp
(Main story and recap)
Starfox
- Goliath (Hank Pym) (Recap)
- Black Panther (T'Challa) (Recap)
- Quicksilver (Pietro) (Joins and leaves in Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and joins Avengers in recap)
- U.S. Army
- Guardsman (Michael O'Brien)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- I.S.A.A.C. (Mentioned)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Referenced)
- Man-Ape (M'Baku) (Mentioned)
- Devil (Invoked)
- Magneto (Magnus) (Recap)
- Magda (Recap)
- Bova Ayrshire (Recap)
- High Evolutionary (Recap)
- Unnamed Tribe (Recap)
- Django Maximoff (Recap)
- Marya Maximoff (Recap)
- Unnamed villagers (Recap)
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Recap)
- X-Men (Recap)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (Recap)
- Angel (Warren Worthington III) (Recap)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Recap)
- Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) (Recap)
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams) (Mentioned)
- Helmut Zemo (Baron Zemo) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Synthezoids (Main story and recap)
- Mutants (Main story and recap)
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Recap)
- Cyborgs (Recap)
- Robots (Recap)
- Zombies
- Geese (Mentioned)
- New Men (Recap)
- Cows (Referenced)
- Pigs (Referenced)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Adirondack Mountains
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- Midtown (Main story and recap)
- Fifth Avenue (Main story and recap)
- Avengers Mansion (Main story and recap)
- Fifth Avenue (Main story and recap)
- Midtown (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- New Jersey
- Bergen County
- Leonia
- Scarlet Witch and Vision's Home (Mentioned) (Destroyed)
- Scarlet Witch and Vision's second home (First appearance)
- unnamed cemetery (the closest to the Vision residence)
- Leonia
- Bergen County
- California
- Louisiana (Mentioned)
- California (Mentioned)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Europe (Recap)
- Balkans (Recap)
- Transia (Recap)
- Wundagore Mountain (Recap)
- Unnamed European Village (Recap)
- Transia (Recap)
- Balkans (Recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Sun, Sol (Mentioned)
Items:
- Scarlet Witch's Suit (Main story and recap)
- Goliath's Suit (Recap)
- Hawkeye's Suit, Bow and Trick Arrows (Main story and recap)
- Panther Habit (Recap)
- Wasp's Suit (Main story and recap)
- Guardsman Armor
- Avengers Identicard
- Iron Man Armor MK VII
- Magneto's Helmet (Recap)
- Quicksilver's Suit (Recap)
- X-Uniforms (Recap)
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield (Recap)
- Devil's Dreamweed (Black Talon uses it to put the Scarlet Witch to sleep)
- Grim Reaper's Scythe
Vehicles:
- Customized MG-TC Rolls Royce (colour scarlet)
Events:
- World War II (Referenced)
Synopsis for "Lovers"
Fed up with Gyrich's treatment of their rights, Vision, and Wanda renounce their Avengers membership and set out to live as private citizens. They return to Leonia, where their previous house was burned down by their bigoted neighbors, and start to defiantly purchase a new home in the same area, receiving support from their new realtor, Norm Webster. However, while they're looking at their prospective property, zombies swarm into the yard to attack them. Vision attempts to phase through them, but it causes him intense pain and causes him to repeatedly shut down while the other zombies overcome and abduct Wanda. She's taken back to the zombies' master, Black Talon and his ally, Nekra. They restrain Wanda but fail to notice that she has a finger free to cast a small hex and she gets to work gradually freeing herself. Vision manages to overcome his pain and separate from the zombie he had been stuck inside and makes it lead him to Talon's base, then disguises himself as a zombie to infiltrate it.
The Grim Reaper, Talon and Nekra's sponsor, soon arrives to examine their progress, only to find both Vision and Wanda are free and prepared to fight. The Scarlet Witch uses her powers to disrupt Black Talon's control over his zombies and Vision braves the pain to phase through them to reach a tent that the Reaper's flunkies had been protecting and is shocked to find a body resembling Simon Williams prior to his transformation to Wonder Man. Vision threatens Reaper with "Simon's" life even as he holds Wanda hostage. They agree to break the standoff as the villains retreat with "Simon" and Vision and Wanda are reunited.
Following a hunch about the Reaper's scheme, Vision calls the West Coast Avengers and learns that they had been attempting to reach him all day following an attack by the Lethal Legion and the abduction of Wonder Man and Hank Pym.
Notes
- This series follows in the aftermath of Avengers #254, in which the Vision attempted to take over the world for its own protection, partly due to influence from interacting with ISAAC. He removed his own control crystal at the end of that story to avoid such influence in the future.
- This issue ties into West Coast Avengers Vol 2 #1.
See Also
- 4 Image(s) from Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol 2 1
- 2 Reprints of Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol 2 1
Recommended Reading
Family Ties | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Part I: West Coast Avengers #1 | Part II: Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1 | |||
Part III: West Coast Avengers #2 | Part II: Vision and the Scarlet Witch #2 |
Links and References
Footnotes
Like this? Let us know! |
- Satan (Unidentified) (Earth-616)/Invocations
- Comic Quote Needed
- Comics
- 1985
- 1985, October
- Copper-Age
- Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol 2
- Family Ties
- Jim Shooter/Editor-in-Chief
- Richard Howell/Cover Artist
- Steve Englehart/Writer
- Richard Howell/Penciler
- Andy Mushynsky/Inker
- Janet Jackson/Colourist
- Adam Philips/Colourist
- L. Lois Buhalis/Letterer
- Jim Salicrup/Editor
- Vision (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Wanda Maximoff (Earth-616)/Appearances
- National Security Council (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Henry Gyrich (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Raymond Sikorski (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Norman Webster (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Avengers West Coast (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Clinton Barton (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Greer Grant (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Anthony Stark (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Barbara Morse (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Zombies/Appearances
- Lethal Legion (Grim Reaper) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Nekra Sinclair (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Samuel Barone (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Eric Williams (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Invaders (WWII) (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Madeline Joyce (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Thomas Raymond (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Human Torch (Android) (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Fred Davis Jr. (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Steven Rogers (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Robert Frank (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Mad Thinker (Julius) (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Jonathan Storm (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Ultron (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Phineas Horton (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Avengers (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Janet Van Dyne (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Eros (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Henry Pym (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- T'Challa (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Pietro Maximoff (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- United States Army (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Michael O'Brien (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Yahweh (Earth-616)/Invocations
- Integral Synaptic Anti-Anionic Computer (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Victor von Doom (Earth-616)/Mentions
- M'Baku (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Max Eisenhardt (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Magda Eisenhardt (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Bova Ayrshire (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Herbert Wyndham (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Rom Tribe (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Django Maximoff (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Marya Maximoff (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Mortimer Toynbee (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- X-Men (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Henry McCoy (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Warren Worthington III (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Scott Summers (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Jean Grey (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Simon Williams (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Helmut Zemo (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Homo sapiens/Appearances
- Synthezoids/Appearances
- Homo superior/Appearances
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids/Minor Appearances
- Cyborgs/Minor Appearances
- Robots/Minor Appearances
- Geese/Mentions
- New Men/Minor Appearances
- Cows/Mentions
- Pigs/Mentions
- Earth/Appearances
- United States of America/Appearances
- New York (State)/Appearances
- Adirondack Mountains/Appearances
- Mount Athena/Appearances
- Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility/Appearances
- New York City/Appearances
- Manhattan/Appearances
- Fifth Avenue/Appearances
- Avengers Mansion/Appearances
- New Jersey (State)/Appearances
- Bergen County/Appearances
- Leonia/Appearances
- Scarlet Witch and Vision's Home/Mentions
- Scarlet Witch and Vision's Home/Appearances
- California (State)/Appearances
- Los Angeles County/Appearances
- Palos Verdes/Appearances
- Avengers Compound/Appearances
- Louisiana (State)/Mentions
- California (State)/Mentions
- Europe/Minor Appearances
- Balkan Mountains/Minor Appearances
- Transia/Minor Appearances
- Wundagore Mountain/Minor Appearances
- Sun (Star)/Mentions
- Scarlet Witch's Suit/Appearances
- Giant-Man's Suit/Minor Appearances
- Hawkeye's Suit/Appearances
- Hawkeye's Bow/Appearances
- Trick Arrows/Appearances
- Panther Habit/Minor Appearances
- Wasp's Suit/Appearances
- Guardsman Armor/Appearances
- Avengers Identicard/Appearances
- Iron Man Armor Model 8/Appearances
- Magneto's Helmet/Minor Appearances
- Quicksilver's Suit/Minor Appearances
- X-Uniforms/Minor Appearances
- Captain America's Uniform/Minor Appearances
- Captain America's Shield/Minor Appearances
- Grim Reaper's Scythe/Appearances
- World War II/Mentions