WEREWOLF BY NIGHT #26

Cover shows moderate wear typical of the grade: soft corner tips, a few faint spine stress lines visible along the left edge, and light surface rubbing especially near the top edge and logo area. There's a visible vertical crease/bend near the top border and some minor edge wear along the right side. Colors remain bright with no major color breaks or tears noted, but the book is protected in a plastic sleeve which slightly obscures fine surface detail. Interior pages and back cover were not assessed.

Werewolf by Night #26 (Feb. 1975) arrived during the height of Marvel's 1970s monster-comics boom, continuing the adventures of Jack Russell as he wrestles with his lycanthropic curse across a Los Angeles steeped in occult trouble. Scripted by Doug Moench with art from Don Perlin, the issue is a representative entry in a series better remembered today for launching Moon Knight a few issues later than for any landmark event within its own pages. The title itself holds a durable niche in Marvel's horror lineage, arriving alongside Tomb of Dracula and Man-Thing as part of the era's supernatural wave.

Market data shows a book that trades essentially flat across the mid-to-high raw and low-certified grades, with FMVs hovering near $90 from 7.5 through 9.2 and only a modest rise to $100 at 9.4. Demand becomes far more pronounced at the very top of the census: the small pool of CGC 9.8 copies commands a substantial premium over everything beneath it, reflecting collector appetite for pristine Bronze Age horror books rather than any narrative significance specific to issue #26. This pattern is typical of a well-collected but non-key chapter in a series whose true gravitational pull comes from adjacent issues.

This is a book for series completists and Bronze Age horror collectors building a run rather than key-issue speculators. Lower and mid-grade raw copies remain inexpensive and plentiful, changing hands as shelf-fillers in longboxes and grab bags, while pressure-tested demand only appears once a copy reaches true gem-mint condition. Buyers seeking a strong 9.8 example should expect to compete for a scarce subset of the census, but grading up from mid-grade offers little price acceleration until the top rung is reached.