The Avengers #182

Name: The Avengers #182
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Apr 1979 · Marvel · 0.35 USD

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“Honor Thy Father”

★ 1st appearance — Marya Maximoff

About this Issue

Avengers #182 ('Honor Thy Father,' Part 2 of 2) is the closing chapter of the two-part arc that first introduces Django Maximoff as a claimant to the parentage of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, directly destabilizing the long-held belief that the twins were born to World War II heroes the Whizzer and Miss America. The issue plants the foundational seeds of what would blossom into the broader 'Yesterday Quest' origin re-examination across Avengers #181–187 — a storyline whose repercussions on Wanda and Pietro's mythology echoed through Marvel for the next three decades, eventually touching everything from their ties to Magneto to the House of M. It also marks the final issue of the Avengers to carry a 35-cent cover price, making it a minor but concrete Bronze Age publishing milestone. Equally notable is that the letters column features an early published letter from a young Kurt Busiek, years before he would himself become one of the definitive Avengers writers.

In "Honor Thy Father," the Avengers race to rescue Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch from the clutches of Django Maximoff, who holds them captive in a mysterious, otherworldly setting. As the team ventures into the enigmatic Bowery, they encounter unsettling sights—wooden dolls in birdcages that seem to move on their own—hinting at deeper, hidden forces at play. Written by David Michelinie and brought to life with dynamic art by John Byrne and Klaus Janson, with colors by Bob Sharen and lettering by Gaspar Saladino and D. Albers, the issue blends supernatural intrigue with personal stakes. The cover, by Al Milgrom and Bob Layton, captures the tension with a striking image of the captured heroes.

writer David Michelinie · artist John Byrne · artist, inker Klaus Janson · colorist Bob Sharen · letterer Gaspar Saladino · letterer D. Albers · cover Al Milgrom, Bob Layton

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History

Avengers #182 was the second installment produced by the new regular creative team of writer David Michelinie and penciller John Byrne, who had just taken over the title starting with issue #181 under editor Roger Stern and editor-in-chief Jim Shooter. The broader origin arc threaded through their run (#181–187) was plotted by Steven Grant and Mark Gruenwald, with Michelinie handling the final scripts — Michelinie later acknowledged in the Marvel Masterworks that he needed collaborators on the arc because he was simultaneously writing an Avengers prose paperback at the time. Byrne provided breakdowns for this issue with Klaus Janson finishing the inks, while Al Milgrom and Bob Layton supplied the cover; it was reprinted the following year in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel UK) #377 (September 1981) and again in the 1994 trade paperback The Yesterday Quest, as well as in later collected editions including the Avengers Nights of Wundagore hardcover and the Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus.

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Title: 'Honor Thy Father!' — Part 2 of 2. Published April 1979 (cover date). Script by David Michelinie; pencils (breakdowns) by John Byrne; inks (finishes) by Klaus Janson; cover by Al Milgrom and Bob Layton; lettering by Gaspar Saladino (p. 1, uncredited) and Diana Albers (pp. 2–17).
This is the final issue of the classic Avengers run to carry a 35-cent cover price; the title moved to 40 cents beginning with issue #183.
Django Maximoff — an elderly Romani sorcerer wielding a magical nivashi stone — traps the life-forces of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch inside enchanted marionette dolls and claims the twins as his long-lost children, Ana and Mateo, upending the previously accepted story that their parents were WWII-era heroes the Whizzer and Miss America.
This issue reveals key details about the twins' upbringing within a Romani caravan, including how village prejudice and fear of their powers led to a violent attack that killed Django's wife and convinced him his children were dead — backstory that directly feeds the larger 'Yesterday Quest' origin arc (Avengers #181–187).
Jocasta uses her cybernetic senses to detect the mystic energy trail leading the team to Django's Bowery flophouse, and her brief confrontation with Henry Peter Gyrich — who is startled to find she is sentient rather than a simple robot — provides one of the sharpest characterization beats in the Gyrich era of the book.
Django conjures illusory versions of Toad, Princess Python, and Nighthawk to battle the Avengers inside his rented room, which he transforms via a magical illusion into an outer-space void; the team defeats them by realizing the foes are not real.
The letters column of this issue includes a published letter from Kurt Busiek, who would later write the celebrated Avengers run beginning with #1 (1998) — one of the earliest documented appearances of his name in a Marvel publication.
The issue was reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel UK) #377 (September 1981) and collected in the 1994 trade paperback The Yesterday Quest, as well as in the Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (2016) and the Avengers Epic Collection Vol. 10 (2023 printing).