MARVEL TEAM-UP #96

Cover shows strong gloss and bright inks with sharp corners and no visible creases or spine stress. There is minor edge wear noted at the top right corner and slight softness at the bottom left corner. The book is housed in a protective sleeve which limits full inspection of surface texture; interior and back cover were not assessed.

Marvel Team-Up paired Spider-Man with a rotating cast of Marvel heroes each month, and issue #96 slots into the title's later Bronze Age run, teaming the wall-crawler with Iron Fist during a stretch of the series that fed narrative threads into the ongoing Power Man and Iron Fist title. Chris Claremont's writing on Iron Fist during this period helped cement the character's supporting cast and tone ahead of his merger with Power Man, and the issue reflects Marvel's late-1970s/early-1980s habit of using team-up books to cross-pollinate readerships between core titles.

Market data for the issue is thin: certified sales are limited to a small handful of transactions clustered at the top of the grading scale, with a single CGC 8.0 sale anchoring the mid-range and two CGC 9.8 sales establishing the high end. There is no recognized first appearance, death, or landmark cover associated with this issue, so demand is driven mainly by completists building full Marvel Team-Up runs or Iron Fist and Spider-Man character collectors rather than by speculative key-issue interest.

This is a book that trades as a common, low-cost run-filler in low and mid grades, with raw copies changing hands cheaply at conventions and online marketplaces. High-grade certified copies see modest but real premiums due to genuine scarcity in top census grades, though the ceiling remains well below true key-issue territory; buyers are typically series or character collectors rather than investors.