MARVEL TEAM-UP #104

Cover shows strong gloss and vibrant color with sharp corners and a tight spine, though there is a faint diagonal crease/handling mark visible in the upper right portion of the cover and slight edge wear at the top corners. No major tears, stains, or color breaks are visible. The book is in a protective sleeve, and the back cover and interior pages were not assessed.

Marvel Team-Up #104, cover-dated April 1981, teams the Hulk with jungle adventurer Ka-Zar against the outsized cybernetic menace M.O.D.O.K., with Zabu the sabertooth tiger along for the ride. The issue was written by Roger McKenzie with pencils by Jerry Bingham, inks by Mike Esposito, and a cover by Al Milgrom, under editor Dennis O'Neil. It arrives well into the long run of Marvel's flagship team-up title, which paired Spider-Man (and occasionally other headliners) with a rotating cast of Marvel characters throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.

The book carries no first appearances, deaths, or landmark creative milestones, and its cover, while energetic, is not among those cited by price guides as a classic Bronze Age image. Demand is correspondingly modest: census data shows a healthy number of submitted copies across grades, with certified 9.8s trading in the double digits and lower grades commanding only nominal sums. Pricing is driven almost entirely by condition census scarcity at the top end rather than character or story significance, typical for a mid-run issue of a long-running anthology-style team-up title.

This is a book for series completists, Ka-Zar or M.O.D.O.K. character collectors filling out appearance runs, and CGC registry participants chasing high-grade Marvel Team-Up sets. Raw copies in low and mid grades move cheaply and steadily as filler in longbox and quarter-bin trade, while the market narrows sharply at the 9.6-9.8 tier, where a limited number of pristine newsstand copies command a real premium relative to the rest of the grade curve.