XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: The Avengers #186
Publication Date: August 1979
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #186 of 402 Issues (913 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860245808
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: This issue features the first appearance of a Chthon-possessed Scarlet Witch, a "Dark Scarlet Witch", so to speak. It anticipates, in many ways, the Dark Phoenix character, by the same artist, that first appeared in The X-Men #134 (June 1980).
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.; later standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #200)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Variants3
Disclose Reprinted In10
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
Indicia
 
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (5 total)
Disclose Issue Images
Enter... Modred the Mystic!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Darkhold book; Modred the Mystic; The Avengers [the Scarlet Witch; Vision; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Beast; Wasp [Janet Pym]; Falcon]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold: Los Vengadores: Noches de Wundagore #[nn] published January 2011
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #381 published January 1982
as Enter... Modred the Mystic! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Nights of Wundagore!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Avengers [the Beast; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; the Falcon; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Quicksilver (origin, details); the Scarlet Witch (origin, details); the Vision; the Wasp [Janet Pym]]; Bova; Chthon (introduction); Django Maximoff; Edwin Jarvis; Henry Peter Gyrich; the High Evolutionary (flashback); Jonathan Drew (flashback); Magda (introduction, wife of Magneto, mother of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, flashback); Modred the Mystic; Robert Frank [the Whizzer] (flashback); Madeline Joyce Frank [Miss America] (flashback, death)
First Line: High above the sun-streaked village of east Transia...
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAvengers: The Yesterday Quest #[nn] published January 1994
In Issue: FlagAvengers: Nights of Wundagore #[nn] published January 2009
In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold: Los Vengadores: Noches de Wundagore #[nn] published January 2011
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #381 published January 1982
as Nights of Wundagore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBackpack Marvels: Avengers #1 published January 2001
as Nights Of Wundagore! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: LG458
Disclose Notes: Magneto revealed as father of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch via the appearance of Magda in X-Men #125. The origin of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch storyline discussed in detail by Mark Gruenwald in the letters page of Avengers #192.
Disclose
The Adventures of Gritboy

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): N. Rosati (signed)
Inker(s): N. Rosati (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Grit newspaper
Character(s): Chris
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Comic strip ad for the Grit newspaper from Grit Publishing Co..
Disclose
The Next Time You're Shopping For Good Comics... Wear Your Sunglasses!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Marvel Magazine
Synopsis: In a colorless world a boy picks up a Marvel color magazine and is blown away by the colors inside.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Comic strip promo for the color Marvel Magazine line.
Disclose
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters on The Avengers #182. Letters from Mike Labrie, Bill Krauss, and Larry Brundin.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2025. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.