After ending last Thursday, Topps revealed the print run for 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Set Week 4. Sales for the set came in at 1,281. Sales were once again down from the previous week. Both lack of advertising by Topps, and an updated website design might have lead to a decrease in sales. There are just two week left for collectors to get their horror fix. The week 6 set will go one sale one day early this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Dynamite Comics Announces Garbage Pail Kids Trashin’ Through Time Issue #5
The latest saga featuring the Garbage Pail Kids going through history is coming to a close. Dynamite Comic has announced the final issue of the current series, Garbage Pail Kids Trashin’ Through Time Issue #5. The comic is written by Adam F. Goldberg and Hans Rodionoff with artwork by Jeff Zapata and Chris Meeks. The description for this issue says, “It all ends here! Adam Bomb and the Kommandos are cornered by a zombie horde and there’s no way out. That is, until they discover that Dead Ted can speak zombie! The GPK zombies form an alliance with our heroes to take down Nasty Nick. Our heroes then learn a shocking twist and you have to see it to believe it!” Covers for this issue include ones by Tom Bunk, Jeff Zapata, Robert Jimenez, and a classic GPK card cover. Each of the four main covers will come ploybagged with an exclusive trading card. The newest issue will be available for preorder soon wherever comics are sold. GPK Trashin’ Through Time Issue #5 is set to hit store shelves 2/28/24.
Topps Releases Checklist for 2023 Series 2 Garbage Pail Kids InterGoolatic Mayhem
Update 12/3/23 – Topps has provided GPKNews the checklist with the Sketch Artist checklist. Click here to see updated checklist.
The final major retail GPK release is upon us, as Topps gets ready to launch collectors into space! Today Topps released the checklist for 2023 Series 2 Garbage Pail Kids InterGoolactic Mayhem. As has been the recent tradition, the base set contains 200 total cards, 100 new pieces with a/b versions.
Collectors will only have two options this time for pack configurations, both Collector and Hobby boxes. Despite that, there are still a number of inserts for collectors to chase. Collector boxes will have a number of inserts that will be exclusive to that box. Wacky Packages Plantery Provisions (8 cards), Kosmic Krashers (5 cards), and GPK Morph Cards (4 cards) will all fall at one card per Collector Box. GPK Patch cards (10 cards) will also be random hits in Collector boxes. Two other insert sets, the Tom Bunk’s Space Farce (10 cards), and Time Warp (20 cards) can be found at a minimum in Hobby boxes. It’s not clear yet if those inserts will also be included in Collector boxes.
All final card artwork for the set was once again done by Joe Simko, David Gross, Brent Engstrom, and Joe McWilliams. There will once again be artist autographs in the set /75 and FoilFractor 1/1. The Time Warp insert set also has artist autos versions /50. Finally, while the sketch artist checklist doesn’t appear on the main checklist, GPKNews can confirm there is a total of 69 sketch artists for this release, with 15 of those making their GPK debut. You can find the checklist for 2023S2 Garbage Pail Kids InterGoodlatic Mayhem in PDF form here. The set is scheduled to hit hobby stores in time for Thanksgiving on 11/22/23.
Topps Launches 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Week 5
The horror for GPK collectors has hit the home stretch. Today Topps launched 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Week 5. This week’s set contains the customary 10 cards, 5 new pieces with a/b versions. Artwork for the set was done by David Gross and Brent Engstrom. Each set also comes with one sepia parallel card. One lucky collector will also receive a piece of final card artwork from the set. This week’s giveaway is Street Trash by Engstrom. Each set can be purchased for $19.99 or in a lot of 10 for $179.99. Shipping is free when choosing the Economy option. The set will be available for 7 days on Topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Collectors looking forward to completing their set, should keep an eye out for the week 6 release next Wednesday. The set will release one day early due to Thanksgiving. Here is this week’s checklist along with pictures of the cards.
21A Sonny Light
21B Overdone Donnie
22A Nell Gun
22B Nail Gunner
23A Trashy Travis
23B Flushed Floyd
24A Chain Sawyer
24B Leathery Trace
25A Franken HEATHER
25B Wanda Date?
Topps Reveals Print Runs for 2023 GPK Oh the Horror-ible Week 3 & Hall of Lame
In the battle of Horror vs. Rock….Horror wins! After ending last Thursday, Topps revealed the print runs for both 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horrir-ible Week 3 and 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Rock & Roll Hall of Lame sets. The horror set sold a total of 1,366, while the Hall of Lame set sold 1,297. Despite the victory, sales for the horror set were down from the previous two weeks. Sales for the Hall of Lame set were down 300 from last year’s set. Perhaps two sets at the same time hurt sales?
Topps Launches 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Set Week 4
The horror isn’t slowing down, as GPK collectors continue to get their weekly fix. Today Topps launched 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horror-ible Expansion set Week 4. This week’s set contains the usual 10 cards, 5 new pieces with a/b versions. All artwork for the set was done by David Gross and Brent Engstrom. Each set purchased also some with one Sepia parallel card. One lucky collector will also receive a final artwork from the set. This week’s free artwork is The Stuff by David Gross. Each set can be purchased for $19.99 or in a lot of 10 for $179.99. Shipping is free when choosing the Economy option. The set will be available for 7 days on Topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is this week’s checklist along with pictures of the cards.
16A Till Death Tiffany
16B Wedded Wanda
17A Sven Ghoulie
17B Rubber Chicken Kerwyn
18A Stuffy Stu
18B Consuming Connor
19A Modern Dance Megan
19B A. Irina
20A Eviscerated Eddie
20B Strange Theo
Topps Reveals Print Run for 2023 GPK Oh the Horror-ible Week 2
Did the horror themed set available the week of Halloween resonate with collectors? After ending on Thursday, Topps revealed the print run for 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Set Week 2. The set sold a total of 1,428 copies. The sales are slightly less than the first week’s series. It appears the popularity of the horror sets remains high with collectors. They will have all of November to continue their horror fandom!
Topps Launches 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Rock and Roll Hall of Lame
What’s better than one online offer, two! Horror wasn’t enough this week as today Topps also released 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Rock and Roll Hall of Lame. This set has been one of the longest yearly traditions for Topps. Artwork for the set was done by Joe Simko, Brent Engstrom, David Gross, Joe McWilliams, and Neil Camera. The set contains 10 cards, 5 new pieces with a/b versions. Each set purchased also included one Music Note Parallel card. For the first time there are also randomly Gold Foil music note parallels /5. The set can be purchased for $19.99 each or in a lot of 10 for $179.99. Shipping is free when choosing the Economy option. The set will be available for 7 days on Topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist along with pictures of the cards.
1A Go-Go George
1B Mashed Michael
2A Misty Missy
2B ttoillE ysseM
3A Wandering Willy
3B Nutty Nelson
4A Gage Rage
4B Micheal Machine
5A Kate Bushed
5B Bustling Bush
Topps Launches 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Set Week 3
Halloween might be over, but we are barely at the half way point in the GPK series celebrating everything horror. Today Topps launched 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Set Week 3. This week’s set contains 10 cards, 5 new pieces with a/b versions. All artwork for the set was done by Brent Engstrom and David Gross. Each set purchased comes with one Sepia parallel card. One collector will also win a final painting from the set. This week’s painting giveaway is Night of the Creeps by Engstrom. Each set can be purchased for $19.99 or in a lot of 10 for $179.99. Shipping if free when choosing the Economy option. The set will be on sale for 7 days on Topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is this week’s checklist along with pictures of the cards.
11A Happy Hallo-Wendall
11B Nick or Treat
12A Barbarian Barbara
12B Cellar Dweller Skyler
13A Thrill me Theo
13B Slug Doug
14A Creepy Carrie
14B Ham on Ryann
15A Cindy Bad
15B Goldie Voyage
Topps Reveals Print Run for 2023 GPK Oh the Horror-ible Week 1
GPK collectors love their horror. After ending last Thursday, Topps has revealed the print run for 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Oh the Horror-ible Expansion Set Week 1. Collectors came out to suppose the latest in horror GPKs, with the set selling 1,493 copies. Those numbers are up over 100 copies from week 1 of last year’s horror set. Topps is just getting started. Collectors still have five more weeks to get their fright on!