MARVEL TEAM-UP #76

Cover shows strong gloss and sharp corners with no visible creases or color breaks; spine appears tight with no stress lines visible in this image. Minor handling wear may be present but not clearly visible under the protective sleeve. The book is bagged, which obscures fine surface detail and any minor scuffing. Interior and back cover were not assessed.

Marvel Team-Up #76 pairs Spider-Man with Doctor Strange for a supernatural storyline involving Silver Dagger, the sorcerous villain introduced in Doctor Strange's own title, alongside Basilisk and Marie Laveau. Chris Claremont, mid-career and already established on Uncanny X-Men, scripts the issue, with interior art from Howard Chaykin, Jeff Aclin, and Juan Ortiz, and a cover by John Byrne. The book arrives in the midst of Marvel Team-Up's long Bronze Age run of rotating guest stars, offering a solid but unremarkable entry rather than a storyline with lasting first-appearance or origin significance.

Market activity reflects a well-populated title with strong survivorship: a census of 93 universal copies and sales recorded across most grade tiers from 3.5 up through 9.8. Pricing is flat through the mid grades, holding near $60 from 9.0 through 9.4, then stepping up modestly to 9.6 before a sharp premium emerges at 9.8, where thirteen recorded sales and a $121 one-year average FMV point to real demand for top-census copies. That gap between 9.6 and 9.8 is typical of Bronze Age newsstand comics, where high-grade survival is scarce relative to the number of copies originally distributed.

This is a book collected primarily by Spider-Man and Doctor Strange completists, John Byrne cover collectors, and readers assembling a full Marvel Team-Up run rather than by key-issue investors. Raw copies in low and mid grade trade cheaply and steadily as reading or run-filler copies, while pressure concentrates almost entirely at the 9.8 tier, where scarcity on the census and Byrne's cover work sustain a meaningful premium over every grade beneath it.