WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #74

Cover shows sharp corners and strong color/gloss with no visible creases or spine stress on this front view; a faint diagonal line near the top left edge may be a light bend or printing artifact rather than a crease. Edges appear clean with no chipping visible. The book is in a protective sleeve which limits full assessment of surface texture. Interior and back cover were not assessed, so grade is based solely on this front cover photo.

Web of Spider-Man #74, cover-dated March 1991, arrived late in the Copper Age glut years of Spider-Man's triple-monthly output, when Marvel supported Amazing, Spectacular, and Web of Spider-Man simultaneously with frequent crossovers and fill-in issues. This issue continues the regular creative stewardship of writer Terry Kavanagh and penciler Alex Saviuk, who handled much of the title's late-run output, delivering standard street-level Spider-Man material rather than a landmark story beat. No first appearance, death, or origin is associated with this issue, and it is not cited in price guides as a notable cover or storyline entry point.

The certified population is small, with only 23 total graded copies and just a handful of tracked sales across the grade spectrum, reflecting the book's status as a mid-tier, high-print-run title that collectors have not pursued in volume for grading. The lone verified sale at 9.2 sits at a modest price point, and while a small cluster of 9.8 copies exists on census with recorded sales, no stabilized fair market value has been established at the top of the grade curve, indicating thin but present demand for pristine examples. Overall demand is driven almost entirely by completists building a run of the Web of Spider-Man series rather than by character-key or artist-key buyers.

This is a book that trades cheaply in raw form across the low and mid-grade range, largely as bulk or run-filler material, with value concentrated almost exclusively in the CGC 9.8 tier where population remains low relative to the title's overall print run. Collectors most likely to pursue this issue are Spider-Man run completists and Alex Saviuk cover collectors seeking a clean slab rather than speculative buyers; raw copies in low and mid grade carry negligible premiums, while a well-preserved 9.8 commands a real, if modest, multiple over the rest of the grade curve.