X-Men #4 Value: The Only Lane Going Up

I have written up more than forty of these now and nearly every high grade in them has come off its peak. This is the one that has not. X-Men 4 value is still going the other way.

It is the first appearance of the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and the Brotherhood, from March 1964, which is three debuts in one comic.

Three first appearances in one issue

Most keys carry one debut. This one carries the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and every one of those has had a life in television or film since.

That matters for a reason beyond trivia. A book with three characters attached to it draws buyers from three directions, and when one character has a moment the others keep the floor under the price.

It is also worth knowing that both Maximoff siblings have contested first appearances in the sense that other publishers and later relaunches have muddied the search results. In original-Marvel-continuity terms this issue is where both begin.

The printing check is 12 cents, March 1964, no bar code. Facsimile and Milestone reprints of this issue exist and both state their edition inside.

One lane up, one lane down

No auction house report on this comic has ever reached CGC, which is why none of these figures links anywhere. They come from Heritage’s own catalog and from eBay listings that actually closed.

The 9.4 has three documented sales and every one is higher than the last: $15,000 in July 2020, $18,000 in July 2025, $21,600 in December 2025. Up forty-four percent over five years, and up twenty percent in the last five months of that.

The 9.2 directly beneath it went the other way over the same period: $16,800 in June 2022, $15,600 in October 2024, $12,000 in April 2025, $10,675 in March 2026. Down about a third.

In 2022 the 9.2 was worth more than the 9.4 had been two years earlier. By the end of 2025 the 9.4 was worth double the 9.2. That is a gap that opened up in four years on one comic.

The 9.0 confirms which way the lower half is going: $9,000 in July 2024 and $7,320 in May 2026. So the honest summary is that this book is strengthening at 9.4 and above and softening at everything below.

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 #4 independently, and if their numbers disagree with mine it is worth finding out which of us is wrong.

X-Men #4 value in every grade

233 sales tracked back to 2002; here are the three freshest in every grade.

Every row above is a documented sale, verifiable in Heritage’s public X-Men issue index and in CGC’s published auction reporting. The 9.2 lane holds eighteen sales and the 8.0 lane fourteen, so the middle of this ladder is well covered.

A readable copy is still four figures

Eighty copies have sold in the readable grades since January 2025, and unlike most books in this batch they are not cheap.

Take the last four months of data. A 7.0 brought $3,500 and another $2,928, a 5.5 brought $3,800 and another $1,610, a 5.0 brought $1,914, a 4.5 brought $1,595, three 4.0 copies brought $1,500, $1,300 and $1,200, and a 3.5 brought $994.

The two 5.5 results are worth pausing on: $1,610 and $3,800 within a fortnight of each other. That is a 2.4-fold spread at one grade in one month, and on this book it turns up repeatedly.

What produces a spread like that is usually presentation and timing rather than the comic. It means a seller here has more influence over the outcome than on a book whose lanes are tight, and it is worth taking the extra photographs.

Selling a X-Men #4

1. Twelve cents, March 1964, no bar code. Facsimile and Milestone reprints both state their edition inside.
2. Sell all three debuts. Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and the Brotherhood all start here and a listing should name all three.
3. Grading is worth it at 9.2 and above. That is where this book carries five figures and where the recent movement has been.
4. Take more photographs than you think you need. One grade on this book has sold at both $1,610 and $3,800 in the same month.

Photographs will let me price it against the direction your particular grade has been moving, which on this comic is not the same direction for everybody.

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 this one lives beside.
• Avengers #1. Where both Maximoff siblings ended up a few years later.
• The 100 most valuable Silver Age comics. And what each one really sold for.

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