This may have been an even wiser investment than it may have seen at the time. All four covers to X-Men #1 that form a quadriptych cover for the fifth,
It turns out playing with your Pokémon cards was a big mistake.
January 22, 2021
One of the first English-language Pokémon cards ever produced, a Blastoise foil card with a blank back, has sold for $360,000 at Heritage Auctions, Dallas. Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions, Dallas.
Did your mother make you throw out your old Pokémon cards? Now you have an opportunity to show her that they really
could have been worth a lot of money one day. An unopened first edition set of Pokémon cards just fetched a world record $408,000 at the “Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction” sale at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.