Professor Oak #88 — Base Set

Professor Oak (#88/102) is a Uncommon Trainer card. 11 cards in the set share that cohort, and Ken Sugimori drew this one.

CATALOGUED · NOT YET PRICED

We hold no verified sold lot for Professor Oak at any grade. The number that fills this space is a median of verified completed sales for one printing and one grade, and it does not render until eight of them exist. No estimate, no range, no placeholder.

Identity fetched 2026-09-01 from the pokemontcg.io Base Set checklist; prices and populations are not in that record.

The record we hold

Set: Base Set (1999)
Card number: 88 / 102
Rarity: Uncommon
Card type: Trainer
HP: —
Holofoil: No
Illustrator: Illustrated by Ken Sugimori

The record carries no HP for it — Trainer cards do not print one. Its binder neighbours are Pokédex (#87) and Revive (#89). Professor Oak was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 88 of 102, which puts it in the last third of the binder.

Which printing you are holding

Which Professor Oak you are holding is decided before grade is: the set ran in three printings. 1st Edition carries the edition stamp and a flat frame; Shadowless drops the stamp and keeps the flat frame; Unlimited restores the drop shadow. Each printing of Professor Oak therefore gets its own cell here, never one blended number.

Walk the set

Pokédex (#87) before, Revive (#89) after.

Also in Base Set

Psychic Energy, Electabuzz, Jynx, Abra, Metapod and Lass — six cards drawn across the checklist by a fixed offset ring, each of which links back.

Also illustrated by Ken Sugimori

Ken Sugimori is credited on 44 cards here; these 4 come off that list by the same offset rule.

Other Uncommon Trainer card cards

11 in the cohort; nearest by number: