MARVEL TEAM-UP #145

Cover shows strong gloss and bright, unfaded colors with sharp corners and clean edges visible in this photo. A slight vertical crease/waviness is faint near the spine area and minor handling wear is present at the top edge, but no major creases, tears, or color breaks are evident. The book is protected in a plastic sleeve, which limits full assessment of surface sheen; back cover and interior pages were not assessed.

Marvel Team-Up #145 (September 1984) pairs Spider-Man with the Iron Man corner of the Marvel Universe, bringing in armor-tech supporting players Morley Erwin and War Machine alongside the recurring Iron Man villain Whiplash. Tony Isabella scripts the issue, with Greg LaRocque providing pencils and a cover finished in ink by veteran Bob Layton, who also inks much of the interior alongside Mike Esposito. The pairing format that defined Marvel Team-Up for its entire run made these books a testing ground for lesser-used characters and creator combinations rather than a venue for major continuity milestones, and #145 fits that pattern as a competent, unremarkable entry late in the title's history.

Market data shows a book that is plentiful in high grade and thinly traded at the bottom of the census: eighty-four CGC Universal copies are recorded, with the bulk clustered at 8.0 and above, and current 9.8 fair value sits at $70 against a noisier one-year average near $200 driven by a handful of stronger individual sales. Prices step up gradually through the 9.0-9.6 range before a sharper premium at 9.8, the normal shape for a Copper Age newsstand title where high-grade survival is common but top-of-census slabs remain comparatively scarce. There is no meaningful raw market activity reported at the low or mid grade bands, consistent with a book that trades mostly as a bulk long-box filler rather than as a sought-after single issue.

Demand for this issue comes almost entirely from Iron Man and Spider-Man completists filling out team-up runs, plus incidental interest from LaRocque or Layton art collectors; it is not pursued as a key by mainstream price guides. Raw copies in low and mid grade move for a few dollars as part of larger lots or want-list fills, while certified 9.8 copies attract modest but real premiums from grade-chasers and registry builders given the relatively low count of perfect slabs on census. This is a book best positioned as a value-priced supporting piece in a broader Bronze/Copper Age Spider-Man or Iron Man collection rather than a standalone investment vehicle.