AVENGERS #240

Cover shows strong gloss and vibrant color with sharp, undamaged corners and clean edges; no visible creases, spine stress, or color breaks. The Spider-Man head box in place of a UPC barcode confirms this as a direct edition. Minor glare from the protective sleeve makes fine surface details hard to fully assess, and the interior/back cover were not examined.

Avengers #240 arrives in the midst of writer Roger Stern's run (with Ann Nocenti contributing to the script), pairing the team with Doctor Strange against the sorceress Morgan Le Fay, a recurring foil in Marvel's mystical corner. The issue features the Hank Pym-led, Yellowjacket-era Avengers alongside Monica Rambeau (soon to become Captain Marvel), Daddy Longlegs, and Poltergeist, reflecting the roster churn and subplots characteristic of the team book's early-to-mid 1980s stretch. Al Milgrom's pencils and Joe Sinnott's inks give the art a polished, traditional Marvel house style, and the issue functions as connective tissue in a larger Doctor Strange/Morgan Le Fay arc rather than a standalone landmark.

Market data shows a typical mid-run Copper Age Avengers profile: modest FMVs across nearly all graded tiers, with values climbing gently from the 8.5-9.6 range before a pronounced jump at the 9.8 tier, where only nine census copies exist against five recorded sales. Demand is driven almost entirely by run-completists and Avengers team-set collectors rather than by any first appearance or storyline milestone, and newsstand copies in high grade are scarcer than direct-market copies of the same era, which can modestly firm up prices at the top end. There is no key-issue premium at play here; value is a function of grade scarcity alone.

This issue trades as a filler book for series runs and back-issue bins in low and mid grade, with raw copies commanding only a few dollars regardless of Doctor Strange's guest appearance. High-grade certified copies, particularly 9.8s, see disproportionately higher demand from grade-chasers and census-watchers given the thin population at that tier, but the overall ceiling remains low compared to true Avengers keys. Collectors assembling a complete Stern-era run or an Avengers team set are the primary buyers; speculative interest is minimal.