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Accurately explain Scarlet Witch’s powers in less than twenty words.

She fires red-colored plot devices from her hands.

Avengers 264 features only the Wasp.

Avengers 360 featured Vision only.

"Who is it?" is Scarecrow. I got it at #4.

Cover game: Avengers #367, with the Vision:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=53794&zoom=4

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I got "who is it?" on the fourth one, after kinda suspecting on the first one and being thrown for a loop by the next two. No idea on the cover theme game, though.

Cover game: Avengers #205, featuring the Vision vs. the Yellow Claw http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=35184&zoom=4

The Scarlet Witch has the mutant ability to do whatever the heck the writers want her to do.

No, I'm not being snarky; that's just the most concise and accurate way to explain her powers.

Hey! Floating Heads!

Mark Engblom had a great column over at Comics 101 about Floating Heads.

http://www.comics101.com/guestlecturer//?mode=project&action=view&project=Guest%20Lecturer&chapter=2

Scarlet Witch's powers are to alter probability, which includes reality apparently.

Well, the three covers feature Nova, and Nova again, who is Marvel's answer to Kyle Rayner, from DC's Green Lantern Corps. And look, there IS the Green Lantern Corps on the third cover!

Green Lanterns are just the ginchiest.

These covers have me thinking not about the Scarlet Witch's powers, but her hair. When did her hair color change? It's brown now, but on most of these covers, it's black. When did it change? (And did it change *to* black? Wasn't it brown in her first appearances, or am I mistaken?)

Scarecrow at 4...my trivia sense starting tingling at 2...I knew the name Lee Stetson, just couldn't place it (kept confusing him in my mind with Matt Houston). But now I can only hear Mrs. King saying Leeeeeeeee....

All the pencilers are named Patrick? That is Zircher on WARRIORS isn't it?

I see an AVENGERS cover, circa #224 featuring Hawkeye and Ant-Man, only Ant-Man wasn't an Avenger. That may or may not count.

Technically Avengers 224 counts as the Wasp appears in silhouette...

http://www.leaderslair.com/avengers/avengers224.jpg

I think you're thinking of Avengers 223, which for some reason is one of my favourite Avengers covers:

http://www.leaderslair.com/avengers/avengers223.jpg

Avengers #384... Hercules in his workout gear crying about some chick.

"Well, the three covers feature Nova, and Nova again, who is Marvel’s answer to Kyle Rayner, from DC’s Green Lantern Corps. And look, there IS the Green Lantern Corps on the third cover!"

Except Nova predated Kyle Rayner by nearly two decades.

Scarlet Witch's power in less than 20 words? I can do it in three: deus ex machina.

And I got Scarecrow on #2. They really need to put that show out on dvd.

Who is it? I got it in 1. Whoo! I think I just earned some geek girl street cred, right?

Nova ... is Marvel’s answer to Kyle Rayner

this makes me giggle merrily. Were this not Snark Free Corner, my response would be something along the lines of "have you seen this 'Darkseid' character DC's got going now? TOTAL rip-off of Thanos." But it IS Snark Free Corner, and so that will not be my response...

Name me a cover of the first volume (the one with 402 issues) of Avengers that featured only ONE Avenger on the cover (and remember, only one cover per commenter) like the following cover (and NOT COUNTING the following cover) that just features the Black Knight.

erm... that cover features loads of Avengers - along with X-Men and Fantastic Four etc...

"The Scarlet Witch has the power to warp all of reality... and shoot 'Hex Bolts'."

Scarlet Witch has Probability Manipulation: Monstrous (75).

Duh.

It's all about the MSH RPG in my house.

strangely i got "who is it" at #1, but i had the wrong one. i was thinking dc's.
that might be an interesting question sometime. how many character names show up in both DC and Marvel?

Floating Heads on Covers…a cool comic thing!

But a really lousy movie poster thing.

Nova Corps = Green Lantern Corps ???

Cover Game: Avengers #274, the one with Hercules fighting the Masters of Evil as part of the Under Siege storyline. One of my favorite covers of all time.

http://www.marveldatabase.com/Avengers_274

How about Avengers #16 for the cover game? It has other characters than Captain America, but rather than floating heads, they're on posters on the wall behind him. Does that slip through a loophole?

Who is it?

I got Scarecrow with clue number 2.

Cover theme game:

The theme is gender bending. At one point or another one of these characters has "changed sexes" in some way: Spidergirl is basically a female version of Spiderman (I know it's his daughter, but it's a suit customarily worn by a man). If I'm not mistaken I've just seen a cover with a female Nova on it (and I believe there has been female Nova's in the past). And Guy Gardner was turned into a woman for one issue of his Warrior run.

Snark free challange: She controls probability and chance, and because of that controls reality. Also something about magic.

"strangely i got “who is it” at #1, but i had the wrong one. i was thinking dc’s."

Ah! This would explain my confusion. Because Jonathan Crane (that's Gotham's Scarecrow's mundane name, right?) was my second guess after reading clue #1 (my first was Phobia), and then the subsequent clues threw me for a loop. Especially Umberto the Uncanny! "That surely sounds like something Stan the Man would make up, methinks. So it can't be the Scarecrow ... but wait, it IS the Scarecrow?!?"

So it can’t be the Scarecrow … but wait, it IS the Scarecrow?!?”

Hehe...that WAS the plan.

All the pencilers are named Patrick? That is Zircher on WARRIORS isn’t it?

Correct-a-mundo, Greg!!

Or, there's #298, which only has Jarvis. He counts as an Avenger, right?

If West Coast Avengers counts, there's this one-
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=42078&zoom=2

Thought DC Scarecrow at #2, Marvel Scarecrow at #5.

Avengers #178 featured just the Beast on the cover (as himself AND as a floating head!).

I think the earliest Avengers with only one Avenger (sort of) on the cover was #97, the finale of the Kree-Skrull War (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24943&zoom=4), with Rick Jones and a bunch of Golden Age characters, including Captain America. Although actually, it isn't really Cap, it's Rick's memory of the Golden-Age (and therefore pre-Avengers) Cap.

So technically, this may be the only Avengers cover with no Avengers on the cover, at least until the Jarvis solo cover that someone else already mentioned.

'Avengers' #376 is just Crystal.

And if I'm misremembering, and Crystal wasn't an Avenger then, than #369 is just Quicksilver (with Crystal).

The three covers all feature characters/teams that have a vocal fan base, yet never sell to well.

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