Author Archives: GPKblog

Lately Topps has been using a lot of borrowed ideas from their Wacky Packages brand on the Garbage Pail Kids.  Evidence of this would be the Wacky Packages Flashbacks that were released in 2008, 2 years before the GPK Flashbacks … Continue reading →

Dollar Tree stores have been stocking Garbage Pail Kids Flashback 2 Packs in their card sections.  How can this be you say?  Well since every item in the Dollar Tree store only costs $1, Topps has made special 4 card … Continue reading →

Topps released the Garbage Pail Kids Flashback 2 in late February 2010.  The GPK Flashback 2 release consists of mostly Original Series (OS) GPK cards reprinted with really ugly borders, a few Lost GPK cards (from the U.S. 16th Series … Continue reading →

Adam Bomb is the most iconic Garbage Pail Kid of all time.  He graces the front of countless U.S. and Foreign packs/wrappers, boxes, posters, advertisement literature, etc.  Here I will post all of the U.S. and Foreign Adam Bomb cards … Continue reading →

In recent years Garbage Pail Kids fans have had a lot more interaction with GPK artists.  A lot of the artists have made themselves available to collectors to draw/sketch/paint custom cards and other art.  If a collector has a concept … Continue reading →

In 2010/2011 several members from the Garbage Pail Kids Underground made a Persian Farsi Garbage Pail Kids Fan Set.  The members responsible were Jimbo, -TCT & tinyTIMMAH.  Jimbo & -TCT came up with the concept, -TCT was the art director … Continue reading →

At some point prior to 2009 Topps Europe Ltd. (Merlin) published a set of Russian Garbage Pail Kids in Russia.  The Russian Garbage Pail kids are phonetically pronounced ‘Deti Otbrosy’ in English.  The collation of the set exactly matched the … Continue reading →

A set of 168 Garbage Pail Kids stickers were released in Japan in 1989.  The Japanese version of Garbage Pail Kids were called ‘Bukimi Kun’.  The Bukumi Kun release used the same characters and numbering as the Israeli ‘Havurat Ha’Zevel’ … Continue reading →

Original Printing Plates were inserted into the Garbage Pail Kids Flashback packs that were released in 2010. The printing plates are metal and come in four colors; Yellow, Black, Cyan and Magenta. Each sticker used all four printing plates during … Continue reading →