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Issue Details

Issue	#186
Published	August 1979
Frequency	monthly
Cover Price	0.40 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Jim Salicrup (Assistant Editor); Roger Stern (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)
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).

Cover Details - "Enter... Modred the Mystic!"

Characters	the Darkhold book; Modred the Mystic; the Scarlet Witch
Genre	superhero
Pencils	John Byrne (signed)
Inks	Terry Austin (signed)
Reprinted	in Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #381

17 page The Avengers story "Nights of Wundagore!"

Characters	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]; Bova; Chthon (I); Django Maximoff; Edwin Jarvis; Henry Peter Gyrich; the High Evolutionary (flashback); Jonathan Drew (flashback); Magda (wife of Magneto, mother of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, flashback) (I); Modred the Mystic; Robert Frank [a.k.a. the Whizzer] (flashback); his wife Madeline Joyce Frank [a.k.a. Miss America] (flashback)
Genre	superhero
Script	Mark Gruenwald (plot); Steven Grant (plot); David Michelinie (plot, script)
Pencils	John Byrne
Inks	Dan Green
Colors	Roger Slifer
Letters	Jim Novak
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. This information added 2005 by Steven Tice.
Reprinted	in Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #381 (January 1982); in Avengers: The Yesterday Quest (Marvel, 1994 series) #[nn]

Half page Grit newspaper advertisement "The Adventures of Gritboy"

Characters	Chris
Genre	teen
Pencils	N. Rosati (signed)
Inks	N. Rosati (signed)
Notes	Comic strip ad for the Grit newspaper from Grit Publishing Co..

1 page Marvel Magazine promo (ad from the publisher) "The Next Time You're Shopping For Good Comics... Wear Your Sunglasses!"

Synopsis	In a colorless world a boy picks up a Marvel color magazine and is blown away by the colors inside.
Genre	humor
Notes	Comic strip promo for the color Marvel Magazine line.

1 page letters page "Avengers Assemble!"

Script	various; Jim Salicrup (replies)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Letters on The Avengers #182.