AVENGERS #250

Cover shows strong gloss and sharp corners with no visible creases or color breaks. Spine appears tight with only faint stress lines near the top staple area. Slight edge wear is visible at the bottom right corner tip, and there is minor handling wear along the top edge. Interior and back cover were not assessed, and the book is currently housed in a protective sleeve which may slightly affect visual clarity.

Avengers #250 arrives late in Roger Stern's celebrated run on the title, continuing the Maelstrom arc that pits the team against the villain's schemes involving the artificial intelligence ISAAC and allies Andre LeClare and Gronk. The issue features a roster built around Hawkeye, Hercules, Mockingbird, and Monica Rambeau (then active as Captain Marvel), with pencils by Al Milgrom and inks by Joe Sinnott on the cover. It is a solid representative issue of Stern's plotting-heavy, character-driven Avengers work rather than a landmark single issue: it introduces no enduring character, contains no death or origin of lasting significance, and is not cited in price guides as a notable cover.

Market data reflects this standing. The CGC population is substantial, with 125 copies graded and the bulk concentrated at 9.6 and above, indicating a book that survived in high grade in meaningful numbers rather than one hunted down as scarce. Certified 9.8 copies transact in the neighborhood of the FMV shown, with recent sales activity outpacing the trailing one-year average, suggesting a mild uptick in demand for top-graded copies, likely tied to renewed interest in Stern-Milgrom Avengers material rather than any single character or event tied to this specific issue.

This is a book most likely to interest completists of Roger Stern's Avengers run, Milgrom/Sinnott cover collectors, and buyers assembling full CGC 9.8 runs of early-to-mid 1980s Avengers. Below the top grade, it trades as a common long-box issue: raw low- and mid-grade copies carry little premium over cover price and turn over easily at conventions and online marketplaces, while the slabbed 9.8 tier is where any real value concentrates, driven by rarity of pristine surviving copies rather than narrative importance.