MARVEL-VERSE: SCARLET WITCH [Paperback]

Learn more about Wanda Maximoff, who uses her mystical hexes and chaos magic as the powerful Scarlet Witch!

The Marvel-Verse bends to the will of the Scarlet Witch and her reality-altering hex powers! First, a young Wanda teams with Marvel Girl and Black Widow to hone her crimefighting skills! Then, when the dangerous Serpent Crown falls into the wrong hands, Agatha Harkness sends Wanda to help the Thing retrieve it! Plus, the Scarlet Witch allies with Doctor Strange to battle a mystical monster, and helps the Sorcerer Supreme keep the terrible tome known as the Darkhold out of Dracula’s vampiric clutches! And Halloween night offers more tricks than treats for Wanda and her husband, the Vision!Jeff Parker began his career as a comic artist and Hollywood storyboard artist. In 2003, he self-published the acclaimed graphic novel The Interman and began writing regularly, notably launching Marvel Adventures: The Avengers. Though the series was aimed at younger readers, Parker’s use of offbeat characters such as MODOK and Ego the Living Planet quickly developed a vocal and passionate following among all ages. Parker next revived a classic group of 1950s-era Marvel characters in Agents of Atlas, which quickly became the sleeper hit of 2006. Parker is one of Marvel’s most prolific writers; his credits also include X-Men: First Class and Thunderbolts.

Few writers/editors influenced Marvel more than Mark Gruenwald (1953-1996). Famed for pioneering work on Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and his magnum opus Squadron Supreme, he also wrote a 100-plus-issue run of Captain America; multiple Marvel Two-in-One sagas; and several miniseries, including Contest of Champions, the first of Marvel&rsquo;s multi-hero sagas. He explored the Marvel Universe&rsquo;s ancient history in a series of What If? backup stories he also penciled.<l3g