WONDER MAN #24

Cover shows strong gloss and sharp corners with no visible creases or color breaks. There is a small handwritten '3' in blue ink within the 'Brotherly Hate' cover box, which is a noticeable defect affecting an otherwise clean cover. Slight edge wear is visible along the top and right border but no major spine stress or ticks are apparent. Interior and back cover were not assessed.

Wonder Man #24 (cover-dated August 1993) falls in the back half of Simon Williams' first ongoing series, written by Gerard Jones with art by Jeff Johnson. The issue continues the extended Mephisto and Grim Reaper arc that dominates the title's final year, pitting Wonder Man against Blackheart while Lotus Newmark, Black Talon and a roster of West Coast Avengers – Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, War Machine and Beast among them – move through the story. Its most-cited production detail is design rather than plot: the covers to #21 through #24 were drawn to assemble into a single connecting four-part image, a device Marvel used sparingly in this period and one that gives the four-issue block more shelf appeal than a stray mid-run number would otherwise have.

Market behavior here is that of a plentiful early-1990s Marvel ongoing. Print runs were healthy, high-grade copies survive in quantity because the book was bought new by direct-market collectors, and there is no first appearance, origin or death to anchor speculative demand. Trading is consequently driven by set completion – buyers assembling the run, or specifically hunting the #21-24 quadtych – and by character-level interest in Wonder Man, which has risen with his announced Disney+ series but has concentrated almost entirely on issue #1 and on Avengers #9. Certification is uncommon: submission economics rarely justify grading a book of this tier, which leaves the top of the market defined by scarcity of slabs rather than by scarcity of the comic.

The realistic buyer is a run collector, a Wonder Man or West Coast Avengers completist, or a dealer filling dollar-box and mid-grade inventory. Across grades the spread is compressed: mid-grade and near-mint raw copies sit close together because supply is deep at both ends, while low-grade copies function as reading material. A certified high-grade example trades at a multiple of the raw price almost entirely on the strength of the holder and the thin census, so anyone paying up should do so understanding that the premium reflects grading cost and registry-style completion rather than underlying rarity. The strongest play for this issue remains buying it as part of the connected four-cover block instead of in isolation.