Tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of beanie babes were sold. There are only 275 regular and variant The Thing (Stout) posters and only 400 Star Wars (Moss) poster sets in existence. I believe most Mondo posters will eventually be subject to at best a market adjustment and at worst a crash but that certain examples, particularly existing Stout and Moss posters for higher-profile films and early Alamo prints (which are very difficult to obtain) will not suffer in this way and their value will remain high and/or increase to a high multiple of the original purchase price.
Mark
I totally believe that. A lot of the movies these prints are based on have already proven their longevity... Early eighties flicks like An American Werewolf in London, The Thing and Blade Runner, thirties masterpieces like Frankenstein and Dracula and even to some extent the recent Kill Bill. These movies are here to stay, and if the depiction of these movies are good, if the artist's eye is recognized, the prints will survive, especially because there are so few of them. I honestly do not see Stout's The Thing or Ansin's Bride of Frankenstein go down in value, even if Mondo cease to exist.
This is also why these prints have nothing to do with concert posters for concerts or bands people have already forgotten. These concerts were not recorded, then cannot be seen by new generations and the posters are now worthless.
Similarly, a lot of prints based on lesser known movies will lose value to eventually amount to nothing. So title and imagery are key to longevity.
IMO, of course.
T
