$50,000,000+ Pokemon Collector Breaks Silence on Logan Paul, PSA Controversy, & Stolen Cards

**Gary King** (0:00)
I have the biggest Pokemon card collection in the world.

**Jack Selby** (0:04)
What's your most expensive one?

**Graham Stephan** (0:06)
The most expensive card is probably the pristine 10 first edition based Charizard.

**Gary King** (0:11)
My Charizard collection is listed right now for almost $50 million.

**Jack Selby** (0:16)
We have some of the biggest investors here on the channel, and for some reason, your Pokemon card collection has outperformed all of them.

**Gary King** (0:23)
Well, I know why.
The reason is, I get 20 messages a day from all the big guy, Justin Bieber. They all want my cards. I bought a first edition based Charizard for $700. Now it's worth about 500 grand. Logan came over just to visit. He ended up making a play for one of the cards.

**Graham Stephan** (0:46)
I know you're thinking, this is stupid, right?

**Jack Selby** (0:47)
You're paying a quarter million dollars for a piece of cardboard, and you're right.

**Gary King** (0:50)
He said, Gary, I'm a maverick. I said, okay, that's very bright.

**Graham Stephan** (0:57)
$60,492,000. What's the darkest side of the high-end Pokemon market that you've been aware of?

**Jack Selby** (1:10)
Gary, thank you so much for coming on The Iced Coffee Hour. You've been called the Warren Buffett of Pokemon. I'm curious, what's the total value of your collection today?

**Gary King** (1:19)
Well, it's kind of interesting. I heard you and Logan talking about the number of the most premium cards I had or something.
Humbly, I say you guys are way off.

**Jack Selby** (1:32)
Oh, no.

**Gary King** (1:33)
Yeah.
You were closer though with what you said. I think you said about $20 million and that Logan was more $10 million or $12 million or something like that. So I know it's a bit of a general statement, but it's well over those amounts.

**Graham Stephan** (1:51)
If someone offered you $50 million right now for your entire Pokemon collection, would you accept it?

**Gary King** (1:57)
Wow. That would be tempting. That would be tempting.
You know, I'm too old to need it. I don't need the money. And it's all eventually probably going to go to one of our charities in that. So that would be hard to say no on. So I'm going to say maybe on that one.

**Graham Stephan** (2:23)
It's something to sleep on.

**Gary King** (2:24)
Yeah. But it kind of hurts me to say that because I'm in no mind frame whatsoever to ever give those cards up. I know I gave one to Logan. You know, Logan bought one and Steve Aoki bought one. And do you know that story with Steve Aoki? Tell us. Logan came over just to visit, just to see my collection and all that. And you probably saw the video where he ended up making a play for one of the cards he knew I wouldn't sell and I didn't. Then he took my son aside, Devin, and said, would your dad be offended if I tried to get one of the PSA-10 first edition base Charizards and that, because I know your dad doesn't want to sell, nor need to sell anything. And Devin said, well, he would never sell the Beckett 10s. And he said, it's very unlikely he would sell anything out of his collection. And Logan said, well, would he get offended? And Devin said, no, he's easy going, he doesn't care.
You can offer, but he won't take it.
And so that's how that happened, you know, with Logan, you know, like you saw, I had a moment of weakness.

**Jack Selby** (3:37)
Well, I saw he opened up a briefcase and had $150,000 cash in there.

**Gary King** (3:42)
Yes.

**Jack Selby** (3:42)
Was it just seeing the cash in front of you?

**Gary King** (3:44)
It meant absolutely nothing.

**Graham Stephan** (3:47)
Do you regret selling Logan Paul a PSA 10 first edition base set Charizard for $150,000?

**Gary King** (3:53)
I don't regret it at all. But I have to tell you one other thing. Steve Aoki, he had been trying for years to get me to sell him a card, and I never would. So he called me and he said, you sold Logan one of your cards, and I'm your friend, and I've been trying for years to get you to sell me one, and you won't do it. I went, ugh.
I said, okay, I'll sell you one. So Logan bought his for the $150,000. I sold the one to Steve right after Logan purchased it. Prices went up, right? Which is, I kind of anticipated.
Steve, I hope he doesn't mind me saying this, but he paid $172,000 for a second one. But then I used those dollars to purchase two more in those coming months, and had to pay more because after Logan purchased, prices jumped, had to pay more. So I came out quite a bit behind, maybe 20, 30, 40,000 behind. But I did purchase two more and I went back to having 12 of them.