gary haase

The market around children’s cardboard continues rocketing into uncharted territory. Earlier this week, auction outfit Goldin announced a holographic “Illustrator” Pikachu Pokémon card from 1998 sold for $US900,000 ($1,249,380). No one knows who bought it for that much, or why, but the winning bid shattered the previous record of$US375,000 ($520,575) that a similar card went…