How Wanda's & Pietro's parentage was revealed, and why a lot of readers didn't catch it

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Before Disney and Fox forced a crappy retcon (Pay no attention to the obvious physical resemblances)...

Back in the early 70s, Roy Thomas wrote an origin for the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, establishing Golden Age heroes the Whizzer and Miss America as their parents. For a variety of reasons, this didn't work. So, in 1979, they tried again.

And they did it in a way that you'd never do, now.

"Her name was Magda..."



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Manor Black #1

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"Manor Black is a supernatural gothic soap opera. In the book, we meet Roman Black, a powerful sorcerer who is nearing the end of his long, long life, and his family. They live in a dark mansion on the edge of a quaint south Georgia town. There, they practice their particular brand of sorcery–blood magic. Before Roman’s life comes to an end, he must choose a successor, which puts a bit of stress on his three children. This is complicated, though, when a young magician from another family shows up in town. She is in danger, hunted by a powerful adversary who has devious plans." -- Cullen Bunn

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SD Rule 2: It's only subtext if it's subtle! Mystique and Destiny go textual!

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It's only taken... oooh,... 38 years, but finally we've seen an actual canonical kiss between two of the longest serving subtextually queer characters in comics; Mystiwe and Destiny.

Yup, Raven Darkholme and Irene Adler (first seen as an obvious but unspoken couple in 1981 when Destiny debuted in X-Men 141) make an appearance in "The History of the Marvel Universe #2" and get a whole page devoted to their first meeting and falling in love (And it's some kiss too!) thanks to writer Mark Waid and artist Javier Rodriguez.

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Absolute Carnage #1

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"And as far as inspiration goes, I've said it before and will say it again; Carnage: Mind Bomb. It's a one-shot by Warren Ellis and Kyle Hotz, and it's the first time that, as a child of the '90s, I read a Carnage story and was genuinely terrified by it. Before that he was like this EXTREME version of Venom. You had the Maximum Carnage video game and all the tie-ins. So it was easy to write him off as this dime-a-dozen psychopath character, but then Ellis got a hold of him in Mind Bomb, and it is the most disturbing look into the mind of a person -- people forget about this -- who was Marvel's greatest serial killer even before he got a symbiote. There's a line in Absolute Carnage #1 that describes his body count as one that only dictators and plagues can hope to achieve." -- Donny Cates

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Jughead's Time Police #2

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