Agatha Harkness Fact — October 31, 2026

Today's Fact

Checked against independent sources — the issues are cited below.

WANDA KILLED AGATHA — THEN AGATHA CAME BACK AS A GHOST AND KEPT TEACHING HER ANYWAY!

The Featured Fact

During the Avengers Disassembled collapse, a destabilised Scarlet Witch confronted the mentor who had once wiped her memories of her lost twins, and Agatha Harkness died off-panel at her student’s hands; Nick Fury later found the body, as shown in Avengers Vol. 3 #503 (2004). Wanda herself retained no memory of doing it.

Death turned out to be a change of office hours rather than a retirement. When James Robinson’s Scarlet Witch Vol. 2 #1 (2015) opened, Agatha was travelling at Wanda’s side in spectral form, advising, narrating, and occasionally reminding her pupil exactly how she had died, with remarkably little interest in holding a grudge about it.

The ghostly apprenticeship peaked on the Witches’ Road, where Agatha helped Wanda confront her hidden family history and defend Witchcraft itself against Chaos. When Wanda’s mother Natalya Maximoff sacrificed her own spirit in Scarlet Witch Vol. 2 #14 (2016), the transaction returned Agatha to living flesh — younger, sharper, and entirely unwilling to waste a second lifetime.

Why It's Obscure

Being murdered by her star pupil did not end the lessons; it merely removed Agatha’s need for a body to attend them.

2004

A murder nobody remembered committing — Avengers Vol. 3 #503 reveals Agatha’s corpse, and the killer is her own former student, who cannot recall the act at all.

2015

Back on the staff, minus a body — Scarlet Witch Vol. 2 #1 pairs Wanda with Agatha’s ghost as travelling counsel while witchcraft itself starts breaking down across the world.

The Road

Curriculum: one haunted highway — The Witches’ Road arc forces Wanda to learn the Maximoff magical lineage Agatha had spent years keeping politely buried.

2016

Resurrection by substitution — Natalya Maximoff trades her spirit to restore Witchcraft in Scarlet Witch Vol. 2 #14, and Agatha walks out of the deal alive again.

Gallery

Comic art of Agatha Harkness and the figures named in today's fact.

Agatha Harkness comic art portrait — **The mentor in her prime**Agatha Harkness in classic form — governess, coven leader, and the most patient teacher in Marvel magic.

Agatha Harkness with Wanda Maximoff comic page — **Alive… again**A page from the close of Agatha’s ghost era: Wanda tells the newly restored Agatha to enjoy being alive again, and Agatha immediately makes plans.

Scarlet Witch comic art — **The student**Wanda Maximoff, the pupil whose breakdown killed her teacher — and whose road back ran straight through Agatha’s ghost.

Sources

Every claim above checks out against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

How Agatha Harkness Became a Ghost — Marvel.comMarvel’s own account: Wanda killed her mentor, Agatha returned as a ghost in Scarlet Witch (2015) #1, walked the Witches’ Road with her, and was restored to life in #14.
The History of Wanda Maximoff and Agatha Harkness — Marvel.comMarvel’s history of the pair, including the corpse found in Avengers (1998) #503 and Natalya Maximoff’s sacrifice resurrecting Agatha.