THE INCREDIBLE HULK #333

Cover shows sharp corners, strong gloss, and vivid inks with no visible spine ticks or stress lines in this photo. Slight bend/wave is visible along the right edge near the price box, and the book is housed in a protective sleeve which limits full assessment of edges. No creases, color breaks, or staining are apparent on the front cover; back cover and interior pages were not assessed.

The Incredible Hulk #333, cover-dated July 1987, arrives from the celebrated Peter David writing tenure on the title, with interior art by a young Todd McFarlane shortly before he moved on to Amazing Spider-Man and, later, his own Spawn. The issue continues David's character-driven reworking of Bruce Banner and the Hulk persona, part of a run widely credited with revitalizing the series creatively in the late 1980s. It carries no first appearance, death, or origin story, and its cover is not among the widely cited classics of the era, so it functions as a strong representative example of the David/McFarlane collaboration rather than a landmark single issue.

Market data shows a large certified population, with well over 240 Universal copies on census and steady sales through the CGC 9.8 tier, where near-term averages have run somewhat higher than the current fair value, suggesting recent price softening after an active stretch of high-grade trading. Demand is concentrated almost entirely at the top of the grade curve; mid- and low-grade copies show little differentiation in value, consistent with a high-supply, direct-market Copper Age comic where condition scarcity below near-mint is not a meaningful price driver.

Collecting interest centers on McFarlane completists and Peter David run readers rather than key-issue speculators, meaning demand is narrow but persistent. Raw copies in low and mid grades trade as inexpensive reading or run-filler material with minimal grade-based spread, while pristine CGC 9.8 slabs carry the bulk of the book's value and are the primary focus for buyers assembling high-grade McFarlane Marvel art runs.