MARVEL TEAM-UP #116

Cover shows strong gloss and bright colors with sharp corners and no visible creases or color breaks. There is minor edge wear along the top and slight surface texture near the spine, but no significant spine stress lines are visible. The book is in a protective sleeve which limits full assessment of surface sheen; interior and back cover were not assessed.

Marvel Team-Up #116 (April 1982) is a late-run entry in Marvel's long-running Spider-Man team-up anthology title, published during an era when the book had settled into a steady, workmanlike rotation of guest heroes under regular writer J.M. DeMatteis. Like most issues from this stretch of the series, it carries no first appearance, no notable creator milestone, and no story generally cited in price guides as a turning point for any character; its interest lies chiefly in being one more chapter of a dependable, if unglamorous, Spider-Man vehicle from the early 1980s.

Market data reflects that modest profile: sales activity is thin across all grades, with fair market value climbing only gradually from the low-teens at mid grade to the low forties even at the top of the census. The absence of any transactions in the 0.5-6.0 raw range underscores how little collector demand exists for well-worn copies of this issue, while the concentration of the census at high grades (9.0 and above account for the bulk of certified copies) suggests that most surviving copies were preserved in strong condition from the outset rather than actively sought out and upgraded over time.

This is a title collectors pick up as part of a complete Marvel Team-Up run or a broader Spider-Man guest-appearance collection rather than as a standalone investment piece. Raw copies in low and mid grade trade for pocket change and see little dedicated demand outside of run-builders; a graded 9.8 holds modest but real value for census-chasers and Spider-Man completists, with pricing driven more by scarcity of top-grade slabs than by any inherent story significance.