One row on this page is worth less than the row below it, and the explanation is the most useful thing I can teach you about reading sales data. X-Men 12 value depends on knowing why.
It is the first appearance of the Juggernaut, from July 1965, and it sits in the original run at a point where the title was struggling and print runs were modest.
A grade is not the only variable
The 9.8 line on this comic has three results across thirteen years: $8,962 in November 2010, $9,859 in July 2012, and $9,545 on eBay in May 2023. Remarkably steady, and all three are old or private.
The 9.6 line has done something else entirely. $5,079 in November 2012, $11,054 in February 2018, then $24,000 at Heritage in October 2024. It has climbed while the grade above it stood still.
So the most recent 9.6 sale is worth two and a half times the most recent 9.8 sale, which sounds impossible and is not. The 9.6 sold on a major auction floor in 2024. The 9.8 sold privately in 2023 to whoever happened to be watching that listing.
The lesson carries over to everything on this site: a sale is a grade, a date and a room. Take any one of the three away and the number stops meaning anything.
Printing check: 12 cents, July 1965, no bar code. The story has been reprinted in collections and each states its edition inside.
Two lanes going opposite ways
No sale of this comic appears in CGC’s auction reporting, so nothing below is a link. These come from Heritage results and closed eBay listings.
| Grade | Result | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.6 | $24,000 | Heritage Auctions, October 2024 |
| CGC 9.6 | $11,054 | Heritage Auctions, February 2018 |
| CGC 9.8 | $9,545 | eBay, May 2023 |
| CGC 9.8 | $9,859 | Heritage Auctions, July 2012 |
| CGC 9.4 | $13,760 | eBay, November 2025 |
| CGC 9.4 | $13,200 | Heritage Auctions, July 2024 |
| CGC 9.4 | $10,980 | Heritage Auctions, May 2026 |
| CGC 9.4 | $10,000 | eBay, June 2026 |
| CGC 9.2 | $9,638 | Heritage Auctions, March 2026 |
| CGC 9.2 | $8,000 | eBay, January 2025 |
| CGC 9.2 | $6,000 | eBay, February 2024 |
Below the inversion at the top, the middle of this ladder is doing something clean and unusual: the 9.2 is rising while the 9.4 eases, and the two are closing on each other.
The 9.4 went $13,200 in July 2024, $13,760 in November 2025, then $10,980 in May 2026 and $10,000 that June. The 9.2 went $6,000 in February 2024, $8,000 in January 2025, $9,638 in March 2026. One down about a quarter, the other up about sixty percent.
Two years ago those grades were more than twice apart. Now they are within about fifteen percent of each other, which means the premium for that last two tenths of a grade has almost disappeared.
For an owner that is genuinely good news at 9.2 and a caution at 9.4. It also means a 2024 comp for a 9.4 will be too high and a 2024 comp for a 9.2 will be too low, in the same year, on the same comic.
As with everything on this site, those figures come through CGC’s reporting of other companies’ auctions and Heritage’s own published results. GoCollect and PriceCharting track X-Men #12 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.
X-Men #12 value in each grade
298 sales tracked back to 2002; here are the three freshest in every grade.
| Grade | Sold for | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| CGC 9.8 | $9,545 | eBay, May 23, 2023 |
| CGC 9.8 | $9,859 | Heritage Auctions, July 26, 2012 |
| CGC 9.8 | $8,962 | Heritage Auctions, November 18, 2010 |
| CGC 9.6 | $24,000 | Heritage Auctions, October 10, 2024 |
| CGC 9.6 | $11,054 | Heritage Auctions, February 22, 2018 |
| CGC 9.6 | $5,079 | Heritage Auctions, November 15, 2012 |
| CGC 9.4 | $10,000 | eBay, June 14, 2026 |
| CGC 9.4 | $10,980 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 9.4 | $13,760 | eBay, November 11, 2025 |
| CGC 9.2 | $9,638 | Heritage Auctions, March 16, 2026 |
| CGC 9.2 | $7,800 | Heritage Auctions, March 8, 2025 |
| CGC 9.2 | $8,000 | eBay, January 28, 2025 |
| CGC 9.0 | $2,850 | eBay, January 23, 2026 |
| CGC 9.0 | $5,000 | eBay, August 1, 2025 |
| CGC 9.0 | $4,920 | Heritage Auctions, November 30, 2024 |
| CGC 8.5 | $2,684 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 8.5 | $3,904 | Heritage Auctions, April 30, 2026 |
| CGC 8.5 | $3,000 | eBay, February 28, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $2,750 | eBay, July 27, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $2,299 | eBay, February 23, 2026 |
| CGC 8.0 | $2,650 | eBay, February 9, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $1,375 | eBay, July 3, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $1,650 | eBay, June 17, 2026 |
| CGC 7.5 | $1,669 | eBay, May 20, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $1,600 | eBay, July 31, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $1,050 | eBay, July 21, 2026 |
| CGC 7.0 | $1,220 | Heritage Auctions, March 16, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $1,200 | eBay, June 23, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $995 | eBay, May 23, 2026 |
| CGC 6.5 | $990 | eBay, May 2, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $1,299 | eBay, August 7, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $950 | eBay, July 6, 2026 |
| CGC 6.0 | $850 | eBay, June 25, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $899 | eBay, July 3, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $800 | eBay, June 7, 2026 |
| CGC 5.5 | $800 | eBay, May 3, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $620 | eBay, August 12, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $600 | eBay, July 17, 2026 |
| CGC 5.0 | $770 | eBay, July 16, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $616 | eBay, June 17, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $899 | eBay, May 15, 2026 |
| CGC 4.5 | $464 | Heritage Auctions, May 14, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $700 | eBay, July 27, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $625 | eBay, July 11, 2026 |
| CGC 4.0 | $550 | eBay, May 30, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $606 | eBay, July 11, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $305 | eBay, June 9, 2026 |
| CGC 3.5 | $400 | eBay, March 20, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $650 | eBay, July 16, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $600 | eBay, June 28, 2026 |
| CGC 3.0 | $550 | eBay, June 15, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $399 | eBay, July 26, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $375 | eBay, March 8, 2026 |
| CGC 2.5 | $400 | eBay, December 16, 2025 |
| CGC 2.0 | $212 | eBay, July 21, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $182 | eBay, June 18, 2026 |
| CGC 2.0 | $260 | eBay, May 22, 2026 |
| Raw | $774 | eBay, August 6, 2026 |
| Raw | $599 | eBay, August 3, 2026 |
| Raw | $685 | eBay, August 3, 2026 |
Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public X-Men issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. The 9.0 and lower lanes carry the volume; the four grades above them carry the argument.
One hundred and fourteen readable copies
That is how many have sold since January 2025, and it makes this one of the better-mapped mid-grade markets on the list.
July and August 2026 alone: a 7.0 brought $1,600 and another $1,050, a 6.0 brought $1,299, three 5.0 copies brought $770, $620 and $600, a fourth brought $485, two 4.0 copies brought $700 and $625, and a 3.5 brought $606.
Four 5.0 sales in two months from $485 to $770 is a wider spread than I would like, and on a book with this much volume that width is real rather than noise. Call a 5.0 a six-hundred-dollar comic and expect to be out by a couple of hundred either way.
The step from 5.0 to 7.0 roughly doubles the money, which is a normal shape, and nothing down here shows the strangeness that the top of the ladder does.
Selling a X-Men #12
- Twelve cents, July 1965, no bar code. Reprints of this story appear in collections and all of them name their edition inside.
- Do not read the 9.8 as a ceiling. A 9.6 has sold for more than twice it, and the difference was the venue rather than the comic.
- Date your comps carefully at 9.2 and 9.4. Those two grades have moved in opposite directions over the same two years.
- Keep the original run together. The first twenty issues of this title are hard to find and clear better as a block.
Photographs will get you two answers on this book: what your grade is worth, and where it would have to sell to actually get that. On this comic the second one is half the value.
Got the first Juggernaut?
Photograph the twelve-cent price box and the July 1965 line inside; that separates the original from the collected reprints, which each name their edition. Text those to me with a spine shot.
I read every request myself.
Send photographs and I will place your copy in its grade lane against the same recent sales you can read above. Where you take it next is your call, and the options for selling in Southern California are worth knowing either way.
Related
- X-Men #1. The start of the run, and the book everything else in it is measured against.
- Selling graded comics. Where a slab sells changes the number, which this page demonstrates twice.
- The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.
Cover images on this page are shown small, for identification, with the publisher credited in the caption. If you are a rights holder and want an image removed, contact me and it comes down.
