![pikachu illustrator card pikachu illustrator card](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZMkAAOSw2gBftsUY/s-l400.jpg)
The reverse of the card is adorned with the Japanese logo and name for the game. PIKACHU ILLUSTRATOR Pokemon Card Magnet Extra Large Pokemon TCG Fan Art Magnet Brand New.
#PIKACHU ILLUSTRATOR CARD SERIES#
Fan-favorite Pikachu stars on the most valuable and rarest Pokémon card in the world! The artwork is by Atsuko Nishida and is the only card in the long-running collectible card game series to say “Illustrator” at the top of a Trainer Card, and the only one to bear the pen symbol in the bottom right corner.
![pikachu illustrator card pikachu illustrator card](https://cdn.mavin.io/production/soldItems/61175200/images/image-0.jpg)
The card’s auction description read: “Pokémon “Pikachu Illustrator” Trainer Promo Hologram Trading Card, 1998. The Pokémon card called Pikachu Illustrator card featuring an image of Pikachu holding a pen has just become the most expensive ever, selling for $233,000 at an auction. Featuring the elusive double star rarity that is reserved for some of the rarest and most iconic Japanese Pokemon cards ever created, the Illustrator. We do know of one more card that was sold for big bucks making it the most expensive card ever sold. Thirty-nine of these cards were awarded, but only ten apparently still exist. Fans may know that the Pikachu Illustrator card was given out to winners of a comic contest that was held in Japan in 1997-98. So far, this is the first example of the famed rarity graded by CGC Trading Cards. The card, which is informally referred to as Pikachu Illustrator, is graded CGC Near Mint/Mint+ 8.5. But looks like Pokémon fans just can’t get enough and the demand for the illustrator cards refuses to die down. CGC® Trading Cards has authenticated and graded an incredibly rare Japanese Pokémon Illustrator card.
![pikachu illustrator card pikachu illustrator card](https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/133388990445_/Luxury-Gold-Metal-Illustrator-Pikachu-Pokemon-Card-CUSTOM.jpg)
First the rare “ Pikachu Illustrator” card went under the hammer followed by the very sought-after Trainer card that was sold a few weeks ago for a little under a million. Other Pokemon cards hit record prices tonight however, as a rare Tamamushi University Magikarp in a PSA 10 sold for over $66,000.It’s starting to look like the year of Pokémon cards. Condition is usually not as important given the rarity of such cards, but it may have been a factor in this sale price being lower than others. Furthermore, many Pikachu Illustrators are graded in PSA 9 or higher.
![pikachu illustrator card pikachu illustrator card](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0565/2171/9986/products/20210416_042535.jpg)
If some of them are not engaging with an auction, prices may not reach the heights collectors believe they will. The Pikachu Illustrator was only awarded to the winners of the Original Illustration Contest in Japan, 1998. Supply and demand are king, and there are limited Pokemon collectors who are able and willing to pay the high prices a Pikachu Illustrator commands. This sale illustrates the volatility in the Pokemon market. Some collectors even speculated that this Illustrator would be the first single Pokemon card to break the $1 million mark, however that prediction was apparently far off. Given the recent market increases in Pokemon, collectors were widely expecting that this auction of a Pikachu Illustrator would break the record for the highest public sale, currently held by the PSA 10 no number, blue back Topsun Charizard at over $493,000. 50+ Official Pokemon Cards Binder Collection Booster Box with 5 Foils in Any Combination and at Least 1 Rarity, GX, EX, FA, Tag Team, Or Secret Rare, with Cards Like Charizard and Detective Pikachu. A Nintendo Pokémon Pikachu Illustrator trainer promotional hologram trading card, graded in Mint 9 condition and given to a winner at the 1998 CoroCoro Comic illustration contest in Japan, soared to 224,250 (a new world auction record) at an auction held October 23rd by Weiss Auctions, online and in firm’s Lynbrook gallery at 74 Merrick Road. A public Western-market auction of the Illustrator card had not happened in several years.