THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER #14

Cover shows strong gloss and vibrant color with sharp corners and no visible creases or major spine stress; a faint diagonal crease line is visible near the lower right edge and slight edge wear at the top corners. No color breaks or tears are apparent, and the book appears to be in a protective sleeve. Interior and back cover were not assessed, so grade is based solely on the visible front cover condition.

The Frankenstein Monster launched in 1973 as one of Marvel's wave of horror-adventure titles capitalizing on the loosened Comics Code, adapting Mary Shelley's creature into an ongoing adventure hero wandering a hostile 19th-century landscape. By issue #14, cover-dated January 1975, the series was late in its eighteen-issue run, with the creative team of Doug Moench and Val Mayerik steering the Monster through increasingly gothic, monster-mash storylines that would soon bring him into contact with other corners of Marvel's horror line. The issue carries no first appearance, origin, or death of lasting significance, and its cover has not achieved the recognition of the line's more celebrated horror-title covers of the period.

Market data reflects a book with a real but limited collector base: sales are recorded across most grades, and the census shows a healthy 70 universal copies, indicating the title was collected in some volume without becoming genuinely scarce in any tier. Demand is driven primarily by completists of the Frankenstein Monster series and by Bronze Age Marvel horror collectors filling out runs alongside titles like Tomb of Dracula and Werewolf by Night, rather than by any crossover or key-issue interest. The pronounced value jump at 9.8, versus a fairly flat curve through the mid grades, is typical of a modestly collected title where high-grade survivors are simply uncommon rather than contested by broad demand.

This issue trades as a mid-run title book: raw low- and mid-grade copies move steadily but inexpensively as reading and run-filling copies, while true 9.8 slabs command a real premium owed to scarcity at the top of the census rather than character or story significance. Buyers are largely series and genre collectors rather than speculators, and the book is best positioned in dealer inventory as an affordable Bronze Age horror title with upside concentrated almost entirely in the highest certified grade.