Is is safe to say Kong is the best/most desirable poster ever

tempo_n_groove said:

MayDay10 said:

The pj20 mural is unique that we all watched them create the billboard that last day... then the posters were sold on a very limited drop

Same as Wrigley

Only 200 in the world!

Less of these though....

Brane_of_JFK said:

tempo_n_groove said:

MayDay10 said:

The pj20 mural is unique that we all watched them create the billboard that last day... then the posters were sold on a very limited drop

Same as Wrigley

Only 200 in the world!

Less of these though....

Theres more of those out there than you would think.

JV140606 said:

Brane_of_JFK said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Brane_of_JFK said:

tempo_n_groove said:

MayDay10 said:

The pj20 mural is unique that we all watched them create the billboard that last day... then the posters were sold on a very limited drop

Same as Wrigley

Only 200 in the world!

Less of these though....

Theres more of those out there than you would think.

If there are, EMEK must have them all. Kongs and Wrigleys come up for sale all the time - these don't.

I thought he only did 100 and destroyed most of them?

Nothing, bummer. I'm on my phone though

JV140606 said:

Nothing, bummer. I'm on my phone though

Think I got it to work this time...

I am loving this thread. The debate/discussion and stroll down memory lane is quite informative.

So due to the rareness of this print, I don't think it comes up in the discussion quite as much, but the Emek Charlotte 96 print, were these sold at the show? It was my first show and I was very not hip to posters, but I don't recall seeing it, and I got the show specific shirt, as well as another No Code tour shirt that night. I even tore down some of those Jesse Helms posters they had up on the bleachers and had them for many years. But I digress..if the print wasn't sold at the show, and again, I'm not sure if it was or wasn't, how did posters work back then? How else would you obtain one? I think I first became aware of poster art as a thing in some of those mail order catalogs you could get for rock t shirts and memorabilia, that just also happened to feature some rock posters. I don't think most of them were going for much back in those days, but to a 16 year old kid, one of the now really classic ones that might have gone for $40-$50, that seemed like insane money at the time. Anyway, the Emek 96 is clearly a pretty iconic one, I saw a guy in Philly this year walking around with a t-shirt of that design. Not a ton of shirts have received that treatment, where they could work in another medium so well.

Pitt 13 is another personal fav for me, of shows I attended and prints I own. Of the Wrigley posters, no one ever talks about it, and it certainly wasn't my first pick, but when I got through the line the only thing they had left was the Munk One Hot Dog. I would have taken the alien over it, but ended up with that one. My buddy held on to them cause he was in the stands, yet during the rain delay, our posters still managed to get wet and a little damaged. It framed out nicely to where you can't even really tell, and I'll be damned if I don't love the thing today, damage and all. Everything about it just takes me back to that night, for better or worse. It hangs on my wall as a badge of honor of what I saw that night, and lived to tell the tale.

I kind of took 'desirable' to mean 'has the highest demand'. In which case I'd agree. I think there's more people willing to drop more coin on the Kong & Crackerjack than anything else.
That doesn't mean there isn't a market for the 90s posters, or that they would sell for less $$ than the Kong, but I think there's just less people wanting to buy those in terms of quantity.

I do like the Kong poster, because I'm from NY and I played Donkey Kong as a kid. Unless I suddenly came into a bunch of money, however, I'm not dropping $500 on one.