Rocky Balboa is poised for another knockout punch in Heritage’s VHS and Home Entertainment Signature Auction on February 17, 2023. The sale of 235 one of a kind, high grade rarities includes sealed copies of Rocky 1-3.

When James Kroeger’s son was born in 1982, he put together a time capsule of items from the year of his birth, including those that were news related and of pop culture significance. Those items included sealed copies of the first three Rocky films on VHS, which are the only known factory-sealed copies, according to Heritage’s VHS and Home Entertainment Consignment Director Jay Carlson. All three are 1982 drawer box, flatback seal, and graded VGA NM+, Rocky and Rocky II have a white 20th Century Fox Video watermarks and Rocky III has a white CBS Fox Video watermark.

“I was thrilled to get that call from James, to find out these Rockys were out there – something I might have considered unfathomable before he reached out,” Carlson said. “These tapes stashed away for decades ago in that extraordinary time capsule were something those of us in the longtime collecting community had been chasing. And to have them just show up one day was extraordinary.

Star Wars lots include one of only four known sealed copies of the 1983 Star Wars VGA 85+ drawer box release and Star Wars Trilogy three-pack VGA 85 NM+ released in 1988 that contains all three films bound by a cardboard sleeve.

Highlights include The Goonies with the white wraparound Warner Home Video watermark IGS 9.5, a rare original Canadian Raiders of the Lost Ark VGA 85, the only known Beta copy of Superman: The Movie’s first release VGA 80, and first releases of The Terminator VGA 85+ and The Karate Kid Beckett VHG 8.0.

Other top lots are two copies of Top Gun Pepsi promo, the two-tape Beta copy of The Godfather, one of the few known sealed 1980 book-box copies of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and one of only 100 VHS copies of Deadpool signed by Ryan Reynolds that was given out at San Diego Comic-Con.