X-Men #56 (Marvel, 1969) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $2,280.00
Sold: Sep 13, 2025
X-Men #56 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1969
About X-Men #56
First appearance of the Living Monolith. Introduction of Havok, without costume. Origin of Angel. Neal Adams cover and art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Beast [Henry McCoy]]; The Living Monolith [Ahmet Abdol]
Pencils: Neal Adams; John Romita (see notes)
Inks: Neal Adams; John Romita (see notes)
Colors: Marie Severin ?
Letters: Neal Adams (“POWER?”); Sam Rosen
Notes: There's been some dispute on Adams inking credit until Bruno Andreacchi found Roy Thomas' statement of Adams inks in X-Men # 60 letters section. The original indexer credited Neal Adams along with Carl Gafford and Michael Evans. Steve Whitaker and Bob Ford credited Tom Palmer. Romita alterations on Cyclops figure per Nick Caputo. Sources for letters credits are (Rosen only) The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981); (Adams and Rosen) The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Olshevsky 1987), The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Ward 1994), and Official Index to the Marvel Universe (Vandal et al. 2009).
STORY DETAILS
Characters: X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Beast [Henry McCoy]]; Alex Summers [Havok] (origin continued); The Living Monolith [Ahmet Abdol] [also as Living Pharaoh] (villain)
Synopsis: In the Egyptian desert, the X-Men battle the Living Pharaoh and his men. The Pharaoh takes off with Alex and siphons off his mutant powers to turn himself into the Living Monolith. As the X-Men battle the Monolith, Alex turns the tables by taking back his power and more, stopping the Monolith and destroying the ancient temple where he has been trapped. Alex warns his friends to stay away as he has no control over the destructive powers coursing through his body.
Pages: 15.000
Script: Roy Thomas
Pencils: Neal Adams
Inks: Tom Palmer
Letters: Herb Cooper
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
| Grade | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 12 | 29 | 31 | 62 | 67 | 99 | 118 | 140 | 167 | 138 | 144 | 111 | 56 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 1239 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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Signature Series |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 27 | 25 | 26 | 21 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 190 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| Total | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 21 | 22 | 35 | 33 | 75 | 85 | 120 | 149 | 170 | 198 | 162 | 160 | 121 | 60 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1472 |
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