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scans_daily2019-08-26 12:51 pm
ebailey140) wrote in scans_daily2019-08-26 12:51 pm
How Wanda's & Pietro's parentage was revealed, and why a lot of readers didn't catch it
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..."
Avengers Vol 1 #185
Wanda and Pietro have gone to Europe, seeking their past, which takes them close to Wundergore, former home of the High Evolutionary. Stuff happens, and Pietro rushes to his sister's aid.
Next issue (That's Spider-Woman's dad in the flashback, young Jessica Drew having her original origin story happening in the same place at the same time)...
And that's all we learned. The rest of the team came to help fight Modred, the story concluded the next issue, and readers were left not knowing who the father was.
Unless they happened to read another comic drawn by John Byrne that month, X-Men Vol 1 # 125, and this scene...
And that was that. No editor's note in either book suggesting checking out the other one. They just left it there. If you were just reading Avengers, you got the origin story with an unresolved mystery. If you were just reading X-Men, you learned Magneto was once married. Not to mention the Spider-Woman part... You only got the full picture if you were already reading both. And there was no internet to catch you up.
The characters, themselves, wouldn't find out for three years.
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..."
Avengers Vol 1 #185
Wanda and Pietro have gone to Europe, seeking their past, which takes them close to Wundergore, former home of the High Evolutionary. Stuff happens, and Pietro rushes to his sister's aid.
Next issue (That's Spider-Woman's dad in the flashback, young Jessica Drew having her original origin story happening in the same place at the same time)...
And that's all we learned. The rest of the team came to help fight Modred, the story concluded the next issue, and readers were left not knowing who the father was.
Unless they happened to read another comic drawn by John Byrne that month, X-Men Vol 1 # 125, and this scene...
And that was that. No editor's note in either book suggesting checking out the other one. They just left it there. If you were just reading Avengers, you got the origin story with an unresolved mystery. If you were just reading X-Men, you learned Magneto was once married. Not to mention the Spider-Woman part... You only got the full picture if you were already reading both. And there was no internet to catch you up.
The characters, themselves, wouldn't find out for three years.
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(I mean, imprisoning Pietro's soul could be excused if you had to deal with him as a kid, but...)
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