CREATURES ON THE LOOSE #36

Cover shows strong gloss and vibrant color with no visible fading. There is a light vertical crease running through the center of the cover and a minor crease near the upper right price box area. Corners appear sharp with only slight wear at the top edges; spine appears mostly tight with no visible major stress lines or color break. The book is in a protective sleeve which causes some glare; back cover and interior pages were not assessed.

Creatures on the Loose #36 arrived in mid-1975 as part of Marvel's revolving anthology line, by that point centered on the ongoing adventures of Man-Wolf, the lycanthropic alter ego of astronaut John Jameson. The character had been introduced a few years earlier in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man and given his own headlining feature in this title starting with issue #30; by #36 the series was deep into that run rather than breaking new ground, with scripting handled by the Marvel horror-line regulars of the period and art from the studio's rotating Bronze Age bullpen. The book is representative of Marvel's mid-1970s strategy of using anthology titles to sustain licensed and secondary characters between larger crossover events.

Market data reflects a low-print, thinly collected Bronze Age title: total certified population sits under forty copies, with sales activity concentrated almost entirely at the extreme top of the grading scale. Mid- and low-grade copies see negligible transactional volume, while CGC 9.6 and 9.8 slabs command outsized premiums relative to the rest of the curve, a pattern typical of anthology and backup-feature books that lack a true first appearance to anchor demand. The absence of a single sale between 9.4 and 8.0 in recent data underscores how little liquidity exists outside the highest grades.

This is a book bought primarily by Man-Wolf and Jameson-family completists, Bronze Age horror-anthology collectors, and census-chasers pursuing top-population slots rather than by casual character-first-appearance buyers. Raw copies in low and mid grade trade cheaply and infrequently, largely as run-fillers within longboxes of the series; the real collector activity is at the 9.6-9.8 tier, where scarcity of pristine surviving copies drives a sharp premium over everything below it.