Dear Mopos - My take on the whole Mondo movement is that they’re fantastic. They offer an homage to films we love with affordable prices for the super-classics, and beefed-up better-than-the-original posters for many titles that had just plain bad art to start with. (Those bad art originals are still my real favorites, though!) They’re great fan art - The successes and the just-okay ones.
I’m guided by one simple rule, however, if I’m drawn to something, I go after it. Having never been a gambler, if something never increases in value, I still have something I’ve enjoyed that means something to me. This is the collector’s attitude, but it does speak to the investor and dealer in me as well. Of the countless movie posters ever created, only a small percentage have ever broken out in terms of high-priced sales. When I started collecting posters I got them from the trash behind theaters. They were all golden to me because I loved them and cared for them. One of the greatest surprises of my adult life is that any of them ever increased in value. I still pull stuff out of the trash, care for it, and love it. I even go after the stuff nobody else wants, finding beauty in the rejected. Collect and invest in what you like because the true treasure is always in the eye of the beholder. There’s no guarantee for success in this crazy world, but have a good time along the way and success becomes a bonus. The monster poster you pick up off the floor in an old theater 50 years ago pays your light bill for a month. Happy Holidays out there in Mopo-land. Tom, Ron, Kirby, Helmut, Bruce, Grey, and all the rest. And may Santa stuff your stockings with the printed paper of your dreams. Alan > On Dec 24, 2022, at 4:31 AM, Helmut Hamm <texasmu...@web.de> wrote: > > 2428 Mondo posters in a single auction... Plus another 2530 Mondo posters > from Bruce in October, and another 257 in July 2022, plus thousand more that > were sold through Heritage, and let's not forget about ebay here... That's > what, like 10,000 Mondo posters sold in 2022 alone? > > Is there ANYBODY left out there who still thinks these posters are a safe > investment??? Mondo seemed a fun idea when they first started out, but now > the sheer number of them is simply inflationary. > > I'm not saying it is impossible to make money with Mondo posters, but the > idea of an 'automated' or 'guaranteed' profit' is plain silly at this point. > > That said, I also bought a Mondo poster this year, the lobby card style for > HALLOWEEN that can be seen here: > > https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/5338244.html > > This is still fairly easily found for about $100, so it's a far cry from the > expensive Mondos on this title. I like it because it reminds me of the House > scene from PSYCHO, which has always been one of my favorite lobby cards ever: > > https://www.filmposter.net/en/psycho-original-release-us-lobby-card.html > > In person, the Mondo poster is much nicer than the image suggest, but again: > I bought it because I liked it, not as an investment in the first place. > Although I have little doubt that I will be able to generate a small profit > with this one in the long run. > > Helmut > Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Dezember 2022 um 21:40 Uhr > Von: "PHILIPP KAINBACHER" > <00000015e579331a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.american.edu> > An: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > Betreff: [MOPO] Mondo sales > After these sales from Bruce….you better watch out on buying these…I did not > buy….but only top artists get good prices… > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > <http://www.filmfan.com/> > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
