PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #28

Cover shows strong gloss and vivid colors with sharp corners visible in the photo. There is minor edge wear at the top and bottom edges, and a faint bend line near the lower right area of the cover art. Spine appears mostly tight with no major stress lines visible, though slight rolling near the top staple area is possible. Interior and back cover were not assessed, and the book is housed in a protective sleeve which may obscure minor surface flaws.

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #28 (March 1979) is a middle-run Bronze Age issue notable chiefly for its interior art: Frank Miller, early in his career and just before his star-making run on Daredevil, provides pencils over Frank Springer's inks, working from a Bill Mantlo script. The story pits Spider-Man against the villainous Carrion and the Masked Marauder, with White Tiger, Mary Jane Watson, and Flash Thompson rounding out the supporting cast. The cover is credited to Al Milgrom and Keith Pollard. No character debuts, deaths, or landmark creative firsts occur in this issue; its interest is driven almost entirely by the pre-Daredevil Miller art rather than any storyline milestone.

Market data shows a large certified population (591 Universal copies of 641 graded), with steady collector demand concentrated at the top of the grade curve: the 9.8 tier alone accounts for 140 census copies and 95 recorded sales, and higher grades hold value disproportionately compared to the modest FMVs seen from 7.5 down through 9.0. This shape is typical of a book valued for a specific art attribution rather than for scarcity or key-issue status — high-grade copies are actively pursued by Miller completists and Spider-Man run collectors, while mid- and low-grade copies see comparatively thin demand and correspondingly soft pricing.

This issue functions as an affordable entry point for collectors building Frank Miller bibliographies or complete Spectacular Spider-Man runs rather than as a speculative or key-issue investment. Raw copies in low and mid grades trade cheaply and are readily available given the large graded population, making them accessible filler for run collectors. The real premium sits at the CGC 9.8 tier, where the combination of Miller's pencils and a well-preserved newsstand copy commands a meaningfully higher price than the bulk of the certified population, reflecting condition scarcity rather than narrative significance.