DOCTOR STRANGE, SORCERER SUPREME #75

Cover shows strong gloss and sharp corners with no visible creases or spine stress in this photo; the book is protected in a plastic sleeve which limits full assessment. Slight sheen/glare across the cover obscures fine surface detail, and the spine appears tight with no visible ticks. Interior and back cover were not assessed, so grade is capped conservatively despite the clean front appearance.

Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #75 closes out the long-building storyline that writer David Quinn and artists Mark Buckingham and Peter Gross had run through the title's post-"Siege of Darkness" period, in which Stephen Strange had fractured himself into the surrogate personas Vincent Stevens and Doc while the fire-sorceress Salomé occupied his role and his ruined Sanctum. The anniversary-numbered, double-sized issue resolves that conflict: Strange reckons with his own splintered selves, Salomé is undone by her reclaimed elemental fire, and Clea's situation in the Dark Dimension is set back in motion, with Dormammu and the Mindless Ones in the background. It is a payoff issue rather than a debut issue, and its interest is chiefly to readers following the Quinn run and to Buckingham completists tracking his Marvel work just before his long association with Vertigo.

Market-wise this is a mid-1990s direct-market book from a period of heavy print runs, and it trades accordingly. Raw copies circulate freely in dealer bins, convention stock, and multi-issue eBay lots, and there is no meaningful premium attached to mid grades because supply of clean, high-grade copies remains ample. The one place the book separates from bulk is certification: the CGC census for this issue is small, and 9.8 examples surface only occasionally, so a slabbed copy prices off scarcity of certified examples plus Doctor Strange's steady character following rather than off any story key status. Buyers should also distinguish this standard direct edition from the separately solicited Peter Gross chromium-enhanced variant, which is cataloged and priced independently.

The audience is run collectors filling the 1988-1996 Sorcerer Supreme volume, Buckingham and Gross followers, and set builders assembling complete 1990s Doctor Strange shelves. In low and mid grades the book is a fill-in purchase that changes hands quickly and cheaply, usually as part of a group. At the top of the grade scale it becomes a registry and display item, where the cost of grading rather than underlying demand sets the floor. Absent a story adaptation or a renewed spotlight on the Quinn era, movement in this book should track the broader 1990s Marvel high-grade market rather than any issue-specific catalyst.