THE INCREDIBLE HULK #355

Cover shows sharp corners, strong glossy surface, and bright unmuted colors with no visible spine stress lines or ticks. Book is protected in a plastic sleeve which limits full assessment but no creases, tears, or color breaks are evident on the visible cover. Interior pages and back cover were not assessed, so grade is based solely on the front cover appearance.

The Incredible Hulk #355 (May 1989) falls within Peter David's celebrated late-1980s run, during the stretch when Bruce Banner's alter ego had reverted to his original grey coloring and taken up residence in Las Vegas as the enforcer "Mr. Fixit." This period is widely regarded as a high point of David's writing on the title, blending noir-inflected crime plotting with the character's psychological fracturing, though #355 itself is a mid-run chapter rather than a debut or origin issue.

Market data reflects a book with steady but unspectacular demand: certified population is modest (44 Universal copies of 48 total graded) and sales activity is thin outside the top grade, where a small cluster of 9.8 sales anchors the high end of the curve. Prices stay compressed through the mid and near-mint grades before jumping sharply at 9.8, a pattern typical of Copper Age issues that were well preserved in quantity at the time of publication but see real scarcity only at the very top of the grading scale.

This is a book collected primarily by Peter David/Hulk-run completists and readers assembling the Joe Fixit era rather than speculators chasing a first appearance or landmark cover. Raw copies in low and mid grades trade cheaply and are easy to source, while certified 9.8s command a real premium reflecting the difficulty of finding pristine, decades-old copies rather than any inherent rarity of the issue itself. Expect steady, low-volume demand rather than volatile pricing.