MARVEL TEAM-UP #140

The cover shows strong gloss and vibrant orange coloring with sharp, well-defined corners and no visible creasing or color breaks on the spine. Minor handling wear is visible at the lower right corner tip and a faint bend near the bottom edge, but overall the surface is clean with no stains or tears. The book is protected in a clear sleeve, which limits full assessment of spine stress ticks; interior pages and back cover were not visible for grading.

Marvel Team-Up #140 arrived in the spring of 1984 during the later stretch of Marvel's rotating team-up title, which paired Spider-Man with a different partner from the Marvel Universe each month. Written primarily by J.M. DeMatteis through this era, the series by 1984 had settled into a workmanlike but well-regarded run, offering standalone team-up stories rather than tying into ongoing arcs elsewhere in continuity. The issue carries no first appearance, origin, or landmark creative milestone, and its cover has not entered the pantheon of widely cited classic Bronze or Copper Age images.

The GoCollect certified data shows a modest but persistent collector base: 87 total graded copies with the bulk concentrated in the 9.4-9.8 range, and a top-grade 9.8 fetching $90 across two dozen recorded sales. Mid and lower grades show little differentiation in price, reflecting a book that trades primarily as a completist or Spider-Man-team-up-run purchase rather than for any single collectible attribute. Demand is steady but thin, typical of a well-produced but non-key issue from a long-running anthology-style title.

This is a book bought by Marvel Team-Up run collectors, Spider-Man guest-appearance completists, and CGC census chasers rather than speculators. Raw copies move cheaply and in bulk, mid-grade examples see only marginal premiums, and the real value differentiation appears only at the top of the certified population, where a clean 9.8 commands a real but modest premium over the rest of the graded field.