DOCTOR STRANGE, SORCERER SUPREME #68

Cover shown in protective sleeve appears bright and glossy with strong black background showing minimal wear; corners appear sharp with no visible blunting. No obvious creases, spine stress, or color breaks are visible in this photo, though the plastic sleeve and glare may obscure minor surface defects. Interior and back cover were not assessed, so grade is capped conservatively pending full inspection.

Published with an August 1994 cover date, this issue falls inside the year-long "Strangers" arc that reshaped Marvel's mystic corner after Doctor Strange refused to join the War of the Seven Spheres and lost his conventional sources of power. The story, "Stranger at My Heels!," continues the effort to reconcile the Sorcerer Supreme with Vincent Stevens, the corporate-styled aetheric double created alongside the masked magician known simply as Strange, and includes the death of the supporting figure Azopardi. Where the surrounding issues were scripted by David Quinn, this installment is a fill-in written by Dan Abnett, with cover art credited to Jeff Johnson and Fred Harper. The material was later gathered into the third Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Omnibus and the Epic Collection line, which has kept the run readable and modestly discussed without turning any single chapter into a sought-after book.

The market profile is that of a common Modern Age mid-run issue. Print runs by mid-1994 were well below the title's late-1980s peak, so raw copies surface less often than the early issues, but demand is limited to run collectors and readers working through the Quinn era. Copies circulate through eBay and back-issue dealers at pocket-change levels, and complete runs through this point in the series are offered for well under the sum of their parts. Certified activity is minimal: the series' graded sales cluster around the first issue and a handful of early numbers, and nothing here indicates a functioning market in slabbed examples of this issue.

Buyers are almost entirely completists assembling the 1988-1996 series, Midnight Sons-era enthusiasts, and dealers filling wall or bin inventory. Across grades the spread is compressed, since condition premiums barely register on a book whose ceiling is set by indifference rather than scarcity; the only meaningful jump comes at the top, where a high-grade certified copy would trade on census thinness rather than on story significance. Anyone considering certification should weigh grading and shipping costs against a realistic resale, and treat this as a run-filler rather than a speculative position.