WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #24

The cover shows strong gloss and vibrant yellow background with no visible fading. Corners appear sharp with only minor wear at the top corners, and the spine shows no major stress lines from this angle. There is a faint vertical crease possibly visible near the left edge of the cover, and slight surface handling wear is noted, but overall the book presents clean. Interior pages and back cover were not assessed, and the book is protected in a plastic sleeve which may obscure minor edge wear.

Web of Spider-Man #24 (March 1987) arrived during the title's mid-1980s run under the regular creative stewardship of writer Gerry Conway and penciler Alex Saviuk, who defined the look of the series for much of its Copper Age life. The issue falls within the multi-title "Gang War" arc that Marvel ran concurrently across Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, and Web of Spider-Man in 1986-87, pitting the wall-crawler against the shifting underworld hierarchy of the Kingpin, the mysterious Rose, and their respective organizations. It carries no first appearance, death, or other landmark event, and reads as a solid installment of an ongoing crossover rather than a standalone landmark.

The certified market for this issue is thin. GoCollect's data shows only a small handful of graded sales concentrated at the top of the census, with an outsized gap between mid-grade and gem-mint pricing that reflects low submission volume rather than deep collector demand. Raw copies in low and mid grade circulate as inexpensive commodity back issues, priced in line with the broader glut of late-1980s Marvel newsstand product, while the small number of 9.8 sales command a real premium simply because so few copies have been submitted and preserved at that level.

Demand centers on Spider-Man run-builders and readers assembling the full "Gang War" crossover rather than investors seeking a discrete key. Raw copies are widely available and inexpensive, making this an easy hole-filler for long-box collections; the CGC 9.8 tier, by contrast, trades as a scarcity play with a small but real premium, and buyers there should expect limited liquidity given the sparse population and sales history.