MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE ANNUAL #3

The cover shows strong gloss and bright color under the protective sleeve, with sharp corners and no visible creases or tears. There is minor edge wear at the top and bottom right corners and slight surface rub visible under glare in the lower portion of the cover. The spine appears tight with no visible stress lines or color breaking. Interior pages and back cover were not assessed as this photo shows only the bagged front cover.

Marvel Two-In-One Annual #3 (1978) pairs Ben Grimm with the cosmic-powered Nova in a double-sized adventure scripted by Marv Wolfman with art by Sal Buscema. The issue is chiefly remembered today for introducing the villain Sphinx (Anath-Na Mut), an ancient Egyptian sorcerer who would recur in later Marvel cosmic and street-level storylines, giving the book a modest but genuine claim to first-appearance status within the annual-format subset of Bronze Age Marvel.

Market activity is thin across the board, with a small certified population and only a handful of recorded sales at any grade. High-grade copies command a real premium relative to mid and low grades, consistent with a book whose demand comes from Thing and Nova completists and Sphinx-first-appearance collectors rather than broad crossover interest. The absence of raw sales data in the lowest condition bracket reflects the book's status as an affordable, lightly traded annual rather than a scarce or actively pursued key.

This title trades primarily among Bronze Age Marvel team-up and Nova completists, with modest but steady interest from Thing collectors filling out Marvel Two-In-One runs. Raw copies in low and mid grade move slowly and cheaply, while CGC 9.8 examples draw outsized premiums due to the small high-grade census, making this a book where condition rarity, not character demand, drives the top of the market.