THE UNCANNY X-MEN #241

Cover shows strong gloss and sharp corners with no visible creases or color breaks. Spine appears tight with no stress lines visible in this photo. There is minor edge wear at the top right corner and slight softness at the bottom right corner. Book is in a protective sleeve; interior and back cover were not assessed.

The Uncanny X-Men #241, cover-dated February 1989, arrives midway through Chris Claremont's long Asgardian Wars arc, in which the team confronts Loki and a possessed Storm under the influence of the villain Malice. Marc Silvestri handles art chores with inks by Dan Green, part of the run that helped define the visual identity of the X-Men line just before Jim Lee's arrival on the title. The issue is a solid piece of late-1980s team continuity rather than a landmark single-issue event, featuring an ensemble that includes Wolverine, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Longshot, and Havok alongside Storm.

Market activity tracks the broad pattern typical of high-print-run Copper Age X-Men issues: strong certified population (nearly 400 Universal copies on census against 474 total graded) with values that stay flat across the mid grades before climbing sharply at the top of the curve. Grades from 8.5 through 9.4 cluster in the low-to-mid thirties, with a modest premium at 9.6, but the jump to 9.8 is pronounced, reflecting how comparatively few copies achieve that top grade relative to the overall population and reflecting continued collector appetite for pristine Claremont-era X-Men in slab form. Sales volume at 9.8 (95 recorded) confirms this is an actively traded grade rather than a speculative outlier.

This is a bread-and-butter Copper Age X-Men book: desirable to completists building out the Claremont/Silvestri run and to buyers assembling Asgardian Wars story arcs, but not a book that draws speculative key-issue demand. Raw copies in low and mid grades trade cheaply and steadily as reading/collection-filler copies, while the real value concentration sits at the CGC 9.8 tier, where scarcity relative to the large graded population supports a real premium over anything in the high-9 range below it.