A Woking decorator’s 42 Pokémon master sets, bought for his son and left in the attic for 15 years, sold for £1.56 million at Ewbank’s on Oct 21, six times the estimate; the Legendary Collection set made £100,000

Alt’s five seven-figure Pokémon sales from Oct 8 and 15 all read paid as of Oct 21, while 34 six-figure Fanatics Collect lots sit unpaid past the window and 59 results of $40,000 or more have been deleted since Oct 8, per Chase Society

The Typhlosion ($1,549,690) and 1st Edition Charizard ($1,385,274) from Oct 8 and the Magikarp ($1,056,000), Gold Star Mudkip ($1,046,250) and Daisuki Club Umbreon ($1,005,000) from Oct 15, every one a PSA 10 at Alt, showed paid with premium when Chase Society read the feed on Oct 21, closing the payment-pending flag our last two issues carried. At Fanatics Collect the same report counts 34 lots of $100,000 or more from the Oct 4 and Oct 11 sales unpaid past the five-day window, 59 results of $40,000 or more deleted since Oct 8 including the $960,000 Cresselia on Oct 20, and the $8.4 million Art Academy Pikachu flagged paid since Oct 15 with a lot page that still reads cancelled; Chase Society states what the feeds show and draws no conclusion about any lot. Its paid 1st Edition Charizard ladder runs PSA 10 $1,385,274, CGC 10 $193,502, BGS 9.5 $156,000, PSA 9 $108,000 and PSA 8 $41,700, so one grade step at the top is worth 13 times the price and the pop at 10 is the whole story.

Twelve sheets of Castle in the Sky rough genga, listed as corrected by Hayao Miyazaki, stand at ¥3,600,000 (about $22,700) after six bids in Mandarake’s Big Web Auction No. 136, with bidding open to Nov 7

Mandarake’s lot page lists twelve 234 by 351 mm sheets from cuts B-911 and B-913 of Laputa: Castle in the Sky as “Hayao Miyazaki Corrected Rough Genga,” condition 8, with the dealer’s authenticity warranty; it opened Oct 15 at ¥3,000,000, stood at ¥3,600,000 after six bids with 63 watchers on Oct 22, and closes Nov 7 at 8 PM Japan time, before the 10% handling fee Mandarake adds to winning bids. At Pound Sterling Live’s indicative $0.0063 per yen that is about $22,700, roughly a third of the $67,100 a Princess Mononoke San cel made at Heritage’s Art of Anime Vol. VIII in May and below the $46,360 Totoro Catbus cel and $73,200 Akira cel from the same $2.5 million sale, per Heritage’s release via Anime News Network. A director-corrected genga set is the rarer object and has almost no public comps, so this lot will set one in yen; a four-sheet Dragon Ball Z genga in the same sale went from ¥15,000 to ¥460,000 on 24 bids and closes Nov 2.

Alt’s five seven-figure October results now read paid, so this month’s vintage Pokémon prints stand as comps, while at Fanatics Collect 34 six-figure lots sit unpaid past the window and 59 results of $40,000 or more have been deleted since Oct 8, per Chase Society. A result that can be deleted was never a comp, and a price guide that counts results on the night is counting bids. The number that moves a market is the one that cleared, and the paid flag is now the first figure to read on any seven-figure sale.