First Appearance of Scarlet Witch: X-Men #4 Value by Grade

Scarlet Witch first appeared in The X-Men #4, cover-dated March 1964, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (Wikipedia). She and her twin brother Quicksilver debut together as reluctant members of Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. PriceCharting's notes for the issue list the first appearances of Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and the Brotherhood, and the second appearance of Magneto.

The twins changed sides quickly. They joined the Avengers in The Avengers #16, May 1965 (Wikipedia), the issue PriceCharting describes as the first new Avengers lineup, with Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver joining Captain America.

PriceCharting values retrieved September 25, 2026.

The X-Men #4 (1964):

• Ungraded: $500.00
• CGC 4.0: $1,269.10
• CGC 6.0: $2,228.03
• CGC 8.0: $5,124.00
• CGC 9.2: $10,462.77

The Avengers #16 (1965):

• Ungraded: $73.00
• CGC 4.0: $97.90
• CGC 6.0: $208.09
• CGC 8.0: $393.84
• CGC 9.2: $1,193.95

X-Men #4 sells about twice a week raw and about once a year in 9.2. Because it is also the first Quicksilver and the first Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, it costs roughly seven times as much as Avengers #16 raw.

In the comics she is written as Romani. Wikipedia describes her as a Romani woman and notes that commentators call her one of the most prominent Romani characters in mainstream superhero comics. Her parentage has been rewritten several times. She was long presented as Magneto's daughter; in the 2014 AXIS crossover a spell revealed that Magneto is not her biological father, and the 2015 Uncanny Avengers explained that the twins' powers came from the High Evolutionary's experiments. The twins were raised by Django and Marya Maximoff, a Romani couple (Wikipedia, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver articles). In the films she is played by Elizabeth Olsen.

• Giant-Size Avengers #4 (June 1975): she marries the Vision (Wikipedia). Their twin sons, William and Thomas, are later reincarnated as the teenage heroes Wiccan and Speed.
• Avengers Disassembled and House of M: two of her best-known storylines, both centered on her powers (Wikipedia).
• On screen: Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda debuts in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and leads WandaVision (2021), then appears in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) (Wikipedia). See our Doctor Strange first appearance page.

Wikipedia's Scarlet Witch article says nothing about her sexuality; in the comics her best-known relationship is her marriage to the Vision. Marvel's first openly gay character is Northstar, who said "I am gay" in Alpha Flight #106 (1992) (Wikipedia).

As for Black Widow: yes. Wikipedia says portrayals of Black Widow have been criticized as sexist for revealing outfits and a subservient role to male characters, and that she was heavily sexualized in her 1970 run in Amazing Adventures. It also notes that writer Nathan Edmondson and actress Scarlett Johansson have praised her later costume as empowering. See our Black Widow first appearance page.

• Indicia: the small print on the first page or inside cover gives the title, issue number, date and publisher; reprints and facsimiles say so there.
• Cover price and barcode: a price or barcode that did not exist in the cover year means a later edition.
• Paper: decades-old newsprint tans at the edges; bright white pages on an old date are a warning sign.
• Restoration: color touch, trimmed edges and replaced covers are common on expensive keys; a grading service such as CGC can detect them.

Shoot the front cover flat and straight on in even light, then the indicia and the back cover. Make sure the title, issue number and cover price are sharp; X-Men #4 and Avengers #16 differ in value by hundreds of dollars. ComicLens reads the title, issue number and cover art from the photo, and there are free scans every day.

Research and drafting were assisted by AI and checked line by line against the sources listed on this page. Prices are the figures shown by the named source on the date given; they change with the market, and a grade that trades about once a year can move a lot on a single sale.