AVENGERS #168

Cover shows strong gloss and bright, unfaded colors with sharp corners visible at top; no significant creases or color breaks are apparent in this photo. There is a small amount of surface wear at the spine near the top and a minor tick along the bottom edge. The book is in a protective sleeve which limits close inspection of edges, and the interior and back cover were not assessed.

Avengers #168 arrives during the Jim Shooter-scripted run leading into the celebrated Korvac Saga, with George Pérez handling pencils and Pablo Marcos inking over a Pérez/Terry Austin cover. The issue folds in Guardians of the Galaxy characters Charlie-27 and Aleta Ogord alongside Carina Walters, one of the aliases tied to Michael Korvac's growing threat, while the core Avengers roster of Captain America, Beast, Hawkeye, Hank Pym, Captain Marvel, and Doctor Strange works through the escalating cosmic mystery under SHIELD liaison Henry Gyrich's watchful eye. It is not a first appearance or origin issue, but it sits squarely within one of the most fondly remembered multi-issue arcs of the Shooter/Pérez Avengers era.

Market data shows a typical Bronze Age team-book profile: modest, steady demand through the mid grades with a pronounced premium at the top of the census. Certified 9.8s have traded as high as $200 with strong sales volume, and even 9.6 and 9.4 slabs command a meaningful gap over 9.0-and-under copies, reflecting how few high-grade newsstand copies of this era survive in top condition. Lower and mid-grade raw copies trade as commodity Bronze Age filler, priced well below the certified curve, with limited recorded sales activity in those bands.

This book appeals mainly to Avengers and Pérez-era Marvel completists building toward the Korvac Saga run rather than key-issue speculators. Raw copies move steadily at low prices as reading or run-filler copies, while high-grade 9.6-9.8 slabs draw more competitive bidding from grade-focused collectors chasing census-topping examples of this specific Pérez art run.