X-Men #61 (Marvel, 1969) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages....
Auction amount: $4,080.00
Sold: May 16, 2022
X-Men #61 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1969
About X-Men #61
Sauron's second appearance. Neal Adams cover and art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: X-Men [Cyclops; Marvel Girl; Angel; Iceman; Beast]; Sauron
Pencils: Neal Adams
Inks: Tom Palmer ?; Neal Adams ?
Colors: Neal Adams ?
Letters: Sam Rosen
Notes: Palmer inks per Carl Gafford and Michael Evans; Neal Adams per the original indexer and Nick Caputo. Inks are attributed to Adams in The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981), 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). Possible Adams colors per Nick Caputo. Sources for letters credit are The Marvel Comics Index, The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (1987), and The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (1994).
STORY DETAILS
Characters: X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Beast [Hank McCoy]]; GUESTS: Polaris [Lorna Dane]; Havok [Alex Summers]; Tanya Anderssen; Dr. Anderssen; VILLAIN: Sauron [Karl Lykos]
Synopsis: The X-Men battle Sauron but the he gets away and the heroes do not make the connection between the flying dinosaur and Dr. Karl Lykos. Visiting Lykos, they find Alex restored to health and witness a reunion between Karl and his love, Tanya. Her father arrives and forbids their love as the X-Men slink away from the uncomfortable domestic scene. Karl drains energy from Lorna and turns into Sauron once again. Once he changes back into Lykos, he confronts Tanya at their old mountain cabin and seemingly falls to his death as he runs away, afraid of trying to drain energy from the woman he loves.
Pages: 20.000
Script: Roy Thomas
Pencils: Neal Adams
Inks: Tom Palmer
Letters: Sam Rosen
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 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 16 | 24 | 32 | 47 | 68 | 82 | 72 | 93 | 116 | 102 | 96 | 53 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 863 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 95 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 21 | 29 | 37 | 59 | 72 | 92 | 80 | 107 | 125 | 114 | 101 | 57 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 970 |
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