AVENGERS #213

Cover shows strong gloss and bright colors with sharp corners and no visible creasing or spine stress; a small ink smudge/scuff appears near Yellow-Jacket's left thigh. The book is in a protective sleeve, which introduces some glare obscuring fine surface detail. No major wear, tears, or discoloration is visible on this front cover; interior pages and back cover were not assessed.

Avengers #213 (November 1981) arrives in the middle of one of the team's more talked-about Bronze Age storylines, the unraveling of Hank Pym's mental state as Yellowjacket that would culminate in his court-martial in Avengers #217. Written by Jim Shooter with art by Bob Hall and inks by Dan Green, the issue continues the domestic tension between Pym and the Wasp against the backdrop of the team's ongoing lineup of Captain America, Iron Man, the Vision, and Scarlet Witch. It is not a first appearance or origin issue, but it sits inside a subplot that has remained a point of discussion among long-time readers of the title, both for its ambition and for how the story was handled.

As a mid-run issue of a long, continuously collected Silver-to-Bronze Age flagship title, this book trades the way most non-key issues from Avengers' 200s numbering do: readily available in the secondary market, priced close to cover in worn condition, and modestly higher in clean, complete copies. The absence of a published fair-market figure for the issue is consistent with its status as a common, widely-printed newsstand book rather than a scarcity. Demand is driven mostly by Avengers run-builders and readers following the Pym/Wasp arc rather than by speculative key-issue buyers.

Collectors most likely to seek this issue are those assembling a complete run of Avengers volume 1 through its Bronze Age stretch or readers interested in the Yellowjacket storyline as a piece of team history. Raw copies in lower grades move cheaply and steadily in dealer bulk boxes and online lots, while clean mid-grade copies see occasional individual sales at modest premiums. Certified high-grade examples, being scarce mainly because so few copies were preserved rather than because demand is high, can command a real but limited premium over raw material, appealing chiefly to registry-set builders rather than character or story collectors.