you have inspired me into reading the whole Avengers v1, what are the best parts related to wanda for me to pay more attention?

scarletwitching:

The earliest stuff has its merits, but you really want to start focusing on Wanda towards the end of the Roy Thomas run. I’m not the biggest fan of how he wrote her either in the Silver Age or later on, but once her relationship with Vision starts to pick up, so does his writing of Wanda.

And then Englehart! You’ll know when Englehart starts writing (#105) because this is the first panel of his first issue and it really sets the mood. Some people think Englehart’s Wanda is unlikable, but those people are wrong. She’s getting the chance to focus on herself for the first time and figuring out who she is and what she wants. The journey is not meant to be smooth.

After Englehart’s run ends, there’s a lot of ups and downs.

Miscellaneous notes (in chronological order):

• When she first shows up in Avengers with #16 and throughout the Cap’s Kooky Quartet era, the most interesting stuff is her interactions with other characters and the interplay between the team as a whole. 
• Everyone but me loves the scene in Avengers #76 where she develops the world’s fastest case of Stockholm Syndrome and recites a Tennyson poem.
• Please note how she (spoiler) kicks Loki’s ass at the end of Avengers/Defenders War (Avengers #118).
• Wanda’s first origin (the one with The Whizzer) is in Giant Size Avengers #1.
• Agatha Harkness shows up in #127. Wanda’s magic training is brief but important. Those are issues to pay extra attention to.
• Don’t try to figure out what’s going on in the Celestial Madonna storyline. No one knows.
• She marries Vision in Giant Size Avengers #4.
• Gerry Conway wrote Avengers after Englehart, and he had no idea how Wanda’s powers worked. Ignore all the stuff he says about her having ESP.
• The first Jim Shooter run has a, uh, very assertive Wanda. She yells at everyone, basically. I found this enormously fun. My Shooter tag has some examples with the issue numbers.
• Her second origin (the one that introduces Chthon and establishes Magneto as her father) is Nights of Wundagore, #181-187.
• There’s a recap of her history in Avengers #234.
• Vision tries to take over the world in #252-254. That’s important for stuff that happens in West Coast Avengers. #252 is the issue where Wanda and Vision’s house is burned down by anti-mutant bigots, and her reaction (specifically the way that she has to suppress it) is a commentary on how minorities are expected to never be angry, no matter what happens, lest they be labeled One of the Bad Ones.
• Do not let anyone tell you that you have to read The Crossing.
• If you decide to read through the mid-90’s (totally understandable if you don’t), there are a couple of cool issues for Wanda: #397, which is her alone with Hawkeye, and #401, which focuses on her complicated feelings about Magneto.

Aaaand one small suggestion: Complete Marvel Reading Order has a list of Wanda’s comic appearances in 616, ordered by publication date. It goes to 2008 and includes writer and artist names next to each issue. If you want to know which comics she’s been in, this is the place to look.