The monthly Top 10 CGC Submissions is a curated list of comics and magazines that have been moving up CGC's grading lists. CGCData.com pulls the data straight from CGC over the past 30 days.
For the month of March 2025, in addition to seeing some familiar faces like X-Men #1 and Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8, we continue to see an appetite among collectors for multiversal variants of Wolverine and Batman with books from DC's Absolute and Marvel's Ultimate Universes making an appearance in the Top 10.
Let's take a closer look at last month's top CGC submissions.
Without further ado, here are the Top 10 CGC submissions during the month of March:
1. X-Men #1 (Marvel, 1991);
2. Ultimate Wolverine #1 (Marvel, 2025)
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto #1 (IDW, 2024);
4. Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1 (Ottley "Virgin" Foil Edition) (2025, Image/Skybound);
5. Absolute Batman #1 (2024, DC);
6. Deadpool / Wolverine #1 (Marvel, 2025);
7. Yaira #2 Variant Cover C (Rippaverse, 2025)
8. Spawn #1 (Image, 1992)
9. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 (Marvel, 1984); and
10. Batman #1 East Side Comics Special Edition A (DC, 2025).
Wolverine-related books dominated last month's CGC submissions.
Books related to Wolverine -- X-Men #1, Ultimate Wolverine #1, and Deadpool/Wolverine #1 -- took the top two spots and three out of the top ten. X-Men #1 is a fixture in the top 10 every month, but it's unusual for it to take the No. 1 spot. Deadpool / Wolverine #1 joined the top 10 for the first time last month; Ultimate Wolverine #1, however, is a newcomer. Ultimate Wolverine is a multiversal version of Wolverine from Marvel's Ultimate Universe (Earth 1610). This alternate version of Wolverine still has superhuman healing abilities, heightened senses, and adamantium claws, but he's more of an anti-hero than the Wolverine we know and love in the 616 universe. It's hard to imagine a more brutal variant of Wolverine, but readers are curious and want to know.
Issue #1 has an awesome cover of this darker interpretation of Wolverine:
Absolute Batman #1 fell to No. 5 in March.
To make room for Ultimate Wolverine, Absolute Batman had to give up some ground. For the first time since November 2024, Absolute Batman #1 hasn't held the No. 1 spot in this list; it fell to No. 5 in March. But whew it had a great three month run. CGC has now graded 2,193 copies of this issue, with 388 submissions in March alone. The average grade on the CGC Census is a 9.77. Absolute Batman remains popular for collectors overall; other issues in the series occupied four other spots in the top 50.
X-Men #1 is about to reach a grading major milestone.
With 454 submissions last month, for a total of 24,513 submissions, X-Men #1 may, if it continues at this pace, surpass 25,000 CGC submissions in April. It is currently in a virtual tie with Venom: Lethal Protector #1 for ninth place all-time. Surprisingly, in spite of so many graded copies, there isn't a single 10.0 on the CGC Census (although there are 13 9.9s):
57% of all of submissions, or 10.745 copies, received a 9.8.
