Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #3

History

The series grew directly out of Steve Orlando's preceding ten-issue Scarlet Witch solo run (2023), which had revitalized Wanda as a standalone hero with a new status quo and rogues gallery; Marvel announced the miniseries at New York Comic Con 2023, framing it as an evolution of that run timed to the twins' 60th anniversary. Orlando retained artist Lorenzo Tammetta — his collaborator from the solo series — with Russell Dauterman returning specifically to provide covers, a continuity of creative talent that gave the four issues a cohesive visual identity. Editor Alanna Smith shepherded the project, and the series was subsequently collected as Scarlet Witch by Steve Orlando Vol. 3, which also reprints X-Men (1963) #4 — the twins' 1964 debut — as a contextual companion piece.

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• Released April 24, 2024; written by Steve Orlando, interior art and inks by Lorenzo Tammetta, colors by Frank William, letters by VC Ariana Maher, cover by Russell Dauterman.
• Third issue of a four-issue limited series (Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #1–4, Feb–May 2024), rated T+, 24 interior pages.
• The series was explicitly conceived as a 60th-anniversary celebration of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, who first appeared in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's X-Men (1963) #4 as members of Magneto's original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
• The Frightful Four Hundred — the Wizard's army of synthetic soldiers introduced in issue #1 — continue as primary antagonists; the Wizard is portrayed as acting on the orders of a mysterious angelic higher being whose identity is withheld as a slow-burn revelation.
• Issue #3 features appearances by the Vision, Viv Vision, and Speed (Tommy Shepherd), expanding the Maximoff extended-family ensemble that Orlando uses throughout the miniseries as part of an ongoing 'chosen family' character arc.
• The Vision provides a key in-story theory in this issue, framing Wanda and Pietro as twin symbols of 'science and sorcery' — two means of making the unknown known — which the Wizard's patron may be targeting as a unified concept.
• Reviewed as the most lore-dense issue of the miniseries to that point, with critics noting it delivers substantial Maximoff family history while some reviewers felt the Wizard's antagonist development was slightly rushed given the series' four-issue constraint.
• The complete miniseries, including this issue, was collected in the trade paperback Scarlet Witch by Steve Orlando Vol. 3: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver (ISBN 978-1302957469), which also reprints X-Men (1963) #4 as a 60th-anniversary bonus.

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