Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol 2 1

Part of the "Family Ties" event Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol 2 #1 Published October, 1985 Issue Details Pages 48 Original Price $1.25 US $1.50 CAN 50p UK Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter Cover Artist Richard Howell "Lovers" Writer Steve Englehart Penciler Richard Howell Inker Andy Mushynsky Colourist Janet Jackson Adam Philips Letterer L. Lois Buhalis Editor Jim Salicrup Previous Issue Next Issue West Coast Avengers Vol 2 #1 (Story) West Coast Avengers Vol 2 #2 (Story) Vision and the Scarlet Witch Vol 2 #2 (Series)

Appearing in "Lovers"

Featured Characters:

• Vision
• Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)

Supporting Characters:

• Norm Webster (First appearance)
• West Coast Avengers
  • Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
  • Tigra (Greer Grant-Nelson)
  • Iron Man (Tony Stark)
  • Mockingbird (Bobbi Barton)
• Avengers
  •  Wasp 
  •  Starfox 

Antagonists:

• Zombies
• Lethal Legion
  • Nekra
  •  Black Talon 
  • Grim Reaper (Eric Williams)
• Simon Williams zombie (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Henry Gyrich
• Raymond Sikorski
• Invaders (Only in flashback)
  • Miss America (Only in flashback)
  • Toro (Only in flashback)
  • Human Torch (Only in flashback)
  • Sub-Mariner (Only in flashback)
  • Bucky (Only in flashback)
  • Captain America (Only in flashback)
  • Whizzer (Only in flashback)
• Mad Thinker (Only in flashback)
• Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Only in flashback)
• Ultron-5 (Only in flashback)
• Professor Horton (Only in flashback)
• Avengers (Only in flashback)
  • Goliath (Only in flashback)
  • Hawkeye (Only in flashback)
  • Wasp (Only in flashback)
  • Black Panther (Only in flashback)
  • Captain America (Only in flashback)
  • Quicksilver (Only in flashback)
• Guardsman (Michael O'Brien)
• Magneto (Only in flashback)
• Magda (Only in flashback)
• Bova (Only in flashback)
• Pietro Maximoff (Only in flashback) (as a newborn infant)
• High Evolutionary (Only in flashback)
• Django Maximoff (Only in flashback)
• Marya Maximoff (Only in flashback)
• Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Only in flashback)
  • Magneto (Only in flashback)
  • Scarlet Witch (Only in flashback)
  • Quicksilver (Only in flashback)
  • Toad (Only in flashback)
• X-Men (Only in flashback)
  • Beast (Only in flashback)
  • Angel (Only in flashback)
  • Cyclops (Only in flashback)
  • Marvel Girl (Only in flashback)

Locations:

• Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility
• Leonia
• Vision and the Scarlet Witch's house
• unnamed cemetery (the closest to the Vision's house)
• Avengers Compound
• Avengers Mansion

Items:

• Guardsman Armor
• Hawkeye's Bow
• Iron Man Armor MK VII
• Devil's Dreamweed (Black Talon uses it to put the Scarlet Witch to sleep)
• Grim Reaper's Scythe
• Captain America's Shield (Only in flashback)
• Captain America's Uniform (Only in flashback)

Vehicles:

• Customized MG-TC Rolls Royce (colour scarlet)
  
  

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 instense 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.

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Links and References

• plot summary at uncannyxmen.net

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