FANTASTIC FOUR #187

Cover shows strong gloss and bright colors with sharp corners; slight edge wear is visible along the top and bottom right corner tips. There is minor spine stress visible near the top of the spine with a small tick, but no major color breaks. The book is in a protective plastic sleeve which limits full assessment of surface sheen and any minor scuffing; interior and back cover were not assessed.

Fantastic Four #187 (Marvel, October 1977) is a mid-run Bronze Age issue written and edited by Len Wein, with pencils by a young George Pérez and inks by longtime FF inker Joe Sinnott. The issue teams the FF with Man-Thing against the villainous pairing of Klaw and Molecule Man, with Agatha Harkness and Franklin Richards also appearing. The book holds no first appearances, deaths, or other landmark distinctions, and its cover, while energetic, is not cited among the era's classic images.

Market data reflects a typical mid-grade Bronze Age Marvel: FMVs sit in a tight $40-$44 band from grade 8.5 through 9.6, with sales activity thin across the census of roughly 96 universal copies. The one meaningful inflection point is at 9.8, where a small but real sales record supports a substantially higher value, consistent with the steep, non-linear premium that top-census Bronze Age copies command once supply becomes scarce at the highest grade. Demand is driven primarily by Pérez's presence on art and the Fantastic Four team-book collector base rather than by any inherent significance of the issue's plot or characters.

This is a book for run-builders and Pérez completists rather than key-issue speculators. Raw copies in low and mid grades trade as inexpensive filler, priced for bulk or want-list acquisition, while values only become meaningful at the 9.8 tier, where scarcity and grader competition sharply widen the gap over lower certified grades. Collectors should expect flat, low-volume trading across most of the grade spectrum with the primary value concentration reserved for pristine census-topping slabs.