AVENGERS #267

Cover shows strong gloss and sharp corners with no visible creases or color breaks. Spine appears tight with no stress lines visible through the protective sleeve. Minor edge wear cannot be fully assessed due to the plastic bag covering the book, and interior/back cover were not evaluated.

Avengers #267 (May 1986) arrives during Roger Stern's acclaimed run on the title, penciled by John Buscema and inked by Tom Palmer, as part of the multi-issue "Council of Kangs" storyline that has become one of the more fondly remembered time-travel epics of the Avengers' Copper Age. The issue features the roster of Captain America, Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), She-Hulk, the Black Knight, and the Vision contending with the machinations of Kang the Conqueror's temporal duplicates, a plot thread that ties into the character's larger legacy in the Marvel Universe without introducing a first appearance or origin of note.

Market activity for this issue is modest and consistent with a well-collected but non-key mid-1980s team title: certified sales cluster tightly in the high single digits and low twenties across grades from 6.5 through 9.4, with only a modest jump at 9.6 and no meaningful population or transaction history yet established at 9.8. This flat curve through the mid grades, followed by a step up near the top of the census, is typical of Copper Age issues that were produced in high print runs and remain readily available in the raw market, meaning demand is driven primarily by Avengers run-builders and Stern/Buscema completists rather than speculative key-issue buyers.

This is a book that trades as connective-issue material within a broader collected run: low-grade raw copies move cheaply and steadily as reading or filler copies, mid-grade raw examples appeal to those assembling a complete Stern-era Avengers set, and a 9.8 slab, when one eventually surfaces on the census, would command a real premium purely on condition rarity rather than narrative importance. Collectors seeking cornerstone Avengers keys will look elsewhere in the run; this issue instead serves the steady, unglamorous demand of series completists and fans of the Kang mythology.