And Booster Boxes of the Base Set retailed for about $118. Booster packs sold for $3.29 each back then. My kids and I had been playing the Pokemon Red/Blue games on the old B& W GameBoys, so I picked up some booster packs to teach them a TCG. The Base Set of Pokemon had just been released.
While playing in a large MTG Tournament in January 1999, representatives of Wizards of the Coast were demonstrating their new Pokemon Trading Card Game. This dazzling holographic single, which highlights the extremely popular, fire-breathing Pokémon, has become the 1993 SP Derek Jeter of Pokémon cards. You almost have to be a fire-breathing dragon to fend off competition for a 1999 Pokémon 1st Edition Charizard card. RELATED: Pokémon’s ’25 Years of Memories’ Is a Rare Celebration of the Entire Franchise The Series That Started It All The set was created in 1999 by Wizards of the Coast and featured 102 cards, including the highly sought after Charizard. The First Edition Base Set Sealed Booster Box was in its original shrink wrap and broke the previous world record for an auction sale, set when Heritage Auctions sold a similar booster box in November 2020 for $360,000.
“Based on the competitive bidding when Heritage Auctions sold a similar set in November, we expected the interest in this set to be even higher, and our collectors did not disappoint.” “Recent history has shown that the demand for First Edition Base Set Sealed Booster Boxes is soaring,” said Jesus Garcia, Trading Cards Expert in the Heritage Auctions Comics Department.
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