Issue(s): Avengers #153
Cover Date: Nov 76
Title: "Home is the hero!"
Credits:
Gerry Conway - Writer
John Buscema - Penciler
Joe Sinnott - Inker

Review/plot:
Wanda returns to the ruins of the Brand Corporation and gets ambushed by the Living Laser, who is after the Serpent Crown. He flees when Brand's private soldiers show up, but Wanda is wounded by their gunshots.

The Living Laser then heads to the Avengers Mansion, where he creates illusions causing the Whizzer, who had been visiting the Vision and asking about his 'daughter', to flip out and attack the Avengers, ranting about ISBISA

Meanwhile, the corpse of Wonder Man wanders off. It turns out the Living Laser is controlling him with the Serpent Crown.

The opening panel in this issue shows the Scarlet Witch flying.

Considering her powers are so ill defined, i didn't think much of it when i read it, but it turns out this was considered enough of an error that almost a year later in Avengers #164, the Scarlet Witch will reference an experimental flying belt that turned out to not be safe enough to use.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 2

Chronological Placement Considerations: Continues directly in Avengers annual #6.

References:

• The Brand Corporation and the Serprent Crown were factors in the Serpent Crown Saga, which ran from Avengers #141-144,147-149.
  
• When the Scarlet Witch is fighting the Living Laser, she says that she thought he was dead, per Captain Marvel #35. But the Laser says that's a "popular misconception" and that it was an android that died, not him. That's a change from the intention of the original story, where he was supposed to have been given an upgrade from the Lunatic Legion.
  
• The Scarlet Witch faced the Living Laser last in Avengers #79.
  
• The Whizzer went missing after Quicksilver's marriage to Crystal in Fantastic Four #150.
  
• ISBISA is a reference to All-Winners Comics #19.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

The Whizzer also rants about Future Man, the only other villain the All-Winners Squad fought in the original Golden Age comics(and was also reprinted in the 1960s and afterwards).

Of course Wanda can fly. She's a witch!

How can a learned fellow like Hank McCoy not know about the legendary ISBISA, whose name was an acronym for the Ice, Stone, Bronze, Iron, Steel, and Atomic Ages? Didn't they teach this stuff in the Marvel universe schools? Oh, the ignomy!