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The “Pikachu Illustrator” cards were originally awarded through three card illustrator contests in CoroCoro magazine in 1998. Winners received a copy of the promo plus their winning artwork on a promo card. It’s estimated a maximum of 39 copies of the cards were awarded. However, only 24 are still known to exist thanks to PSA grading.
A Pikachu Illustrator card was just traded for $900,000 worth of Charizard cards and Mitsuhiro Arita drawings. We can verify the transaction involved the game’s most respected collectors. The $900,000 transaction places this Pikachu Illustrator as the most expensive Pokemon card in history by far — and the most expensive Pokemon TCG item by ...
The “Pikachu Illustrator” cards were originally awarded through three card illustrator contests in CoroCoro magazine in 1998. Winners received a copy of the promo plus their winning artwork on a promo card. It’s estimated a maximum of 39 copies of the cards were awarded. However, only 24 are still known to exist thanks to PSA grading.
A new story has just been posted to PokéBeach's front page: Pikachu Illustrator Card Traded for $900,000 in Charizards, Most Expensive Pokemon Card in History! Posts you make after this point will immediately appear on the front page and vice versa. Discuss!
The first Illustration Rares have just been revealed from Pokemon Card 151! Their card numbering means only some Pokemon will receive one. For example, Pikachu is card #173 and Nidoking is #174. This means Raichu through Nidorino won’t get an Illustrator Rare. Some fans were hoping each Kanto Pokemon would get one.
Pokémon Trading Card Game. Front Page News . Pikachu Illustrator Sells for Record $900,000, Now Most ...
While the “No. 1” and “No. 2” Mewtwo cards are technically rarer than the famous “Pikachu Illustrator” cards, Pikachu’s usually fetches a higher price due to the unique artwork by Atsuko Nishida and the fact it’s Pikachu. Last year one sold for $195,000, the highest known price ever paid for a Pokemon card. It was graded to be a ...
To promote the 2024 Pokemon TCG Illustrator Contest, Creatures has published a fascinating column that gives us a rare glimpse into the design process behind a Pokemon card’s artwork. The article asks illustrator Atsushi Furusawa about his philosophies and processes for drawing Arcanine from 151. We see his drafts from start to finish.
Under TPCi there have been only a handful of Illustrator Contests. In 2004, Pokemon USA (now TPCi) held a contest in partnership with Kids’ WB. Artists between five and fifteen submitted their art of Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Wurmple, and Pikachu. 50 promo booster packs were distributed to each of the five grand prize winners and one pack to ...
Kouki Saitou actually illustrated the BW Pikachu SR card, which is more evidence that this is just copied from them. Also, the set symbol is missing, and the set number is conveniently 25 / 151 -- Pikachu's PokeDex number is 25 and there were 151 original Pokemon -- and official 'extremely rare' cards would not have the "This is an extremely ...