GPK Nation Set to Return with Strahan Coins & Cards

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GPK Nation is back with Garbage Pail Kids officially licensed merchandise. The company announced last night their new Certified Gross line that will debut with a GPK themed Michael Strahan challenge coin and card. Artwork for the Strahan was done by Neil Camera. The company said there will be four different foil versions, including rainbow. They will also be gold foil numbered. For the first time the coin will come with a licensed GPK card. Strahan will also be autographing inserts. The video below shows prototype versions of the coin and card, but the final card will have the GPK banner. The coins and cards are in production now, they expect to launch within 1-2 months. The company recently renewed their license deal with Topps. They also have hired former Topps Editor-in-Chief Chris Vaccaro to lead development for future coins.

Here is the press release from the company along with a video showing prototypes of the upcoming product:

For immediate release:
August 30, 2023
Manhattan, NYC

GPK Nation’s Certified Gross Line is being teased and through a new deal with Topps, their highly sought after challenge coins will be accompanied by Official Garbage Pail Kids cards! Various foil variations and gold foil serial numbers have been promised and, through an exclusive partnership with Michael Strahan, autographed inserts are coming to CertifiedGross.com too. This is the first of many. If GPK Nation’s coins sold out in minutes before, what will happen now? Louis “Uncle Louie” Gregory, Adam F. Goldberg and the team at Collectibles Nation have done it again! In more news, Adam and Louie have hired former Topps Editor-in-Chief Chris R. Vaccaro to lead the team into the next phase of development as the preeminent collectible coin manufacturer in the hobby!

Steph Curry Part of GPK Chrome OS 6???

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No, Topps didn’t turn the NBA superstar into a GPK character, nor are they planning on any NBA products soon. However, one GPK collector got quite the surprise when he broke a Hobby case of the new 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome OS 6 cards. Thanks to Ryan Preston for sending along pictures and video of the cards. Ryan was quite shocked to find a number of base cards in the case had Panini NBA Prizm cards backs. The fronts had the normal GPK cards, but backs featured Prizm backs of Steph Curry, Kawhi Leonard, Kyle Lowery, and more! In all his case yielded 16 GPK base cards with Panini NBA Prizm backs.

This isn’t the first time GPK cards were found mixed with sports cards. There are a few examples from 1986 Topps baseball with cards that contained GPK backs. This is the first time card backs from a different company has been found on Topps GPK cards. It’s unknown how this error occurred. GPKNews reached out to Topps for comment, but has not heard back. A few weeks ago Panini filed an Antitrust lawsuit against Fanatics. In part of the complaint, Panini alleges Fanatics purchased the printer that Panini primarily uses to print their cards. So it’s feasible that GPK Chrome cards and Panini NBA Prizm were being printed in the same facility and somehow the wrong fronts were glued to the wrong backs during the Chrome production process. It will be interesting to see if more of these cards surface as collectors bust more packs.

Topps Launches 2023 Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the 70’s Week 5

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It’s not all Chrome this week in GPK, as today Topps launched 2023 Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the 70’s Week 5. The series is starting to wind down and this is the 5th set of a planned six set series. This week’s set contains 10 base cards, 5 new pieces with a/b variations. All artwork for the series was done by David Gross and Brent Engstrom. Each set purchased also comes with one sepia parallel card. One lucky collector will also win a final artwork piece from the set. This week’s free artwork piece is high waist jeans by Engstrom. A 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 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.

21A Frat Boyd
21B Animal Mel
22A Beary Burt
22B Reynolds Rug
23A Roller Kate
23B Skating Skylar
24A 8 Track TATE
24B Portable Pete
25A High Wasted Heidi
25B Zipped Up ZOIE

Topps Reveals Checklist for 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome OS 6

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This week’s latest GPK Chrome release will mark the third GPK Chrome release in the past 53 weeks. Due to catching up after Covid and production delays Chrome collectors are getting more than they bargained for. Today, Topps finally revealed the checklist for 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome OS 6. There aren’t a lot of surprises with the checklist, which in one major part is a big bummer. The base set once again contains 100 cards, 88 cards from OS 6 (44 original characters with a/b versions), and 12 cards featuring brand new artwork (6 new characters with a/b versions). New characters were completed by Joe Simko, Joe McWilliams, Brent Engstrom, and David Gross. Once again, the powers that be have decided to completely ruin the numbering of the set. With Chrome 5, instead of numbering the new artwork with an “AN#”, the company just continued the numbering. As expected, that will now cause confusion as numbering for this set starts at 207a. That’s means both Chrome 5 and Chrome 6 have 207a/b-216a/b as part of their sets. You would think the same mistake wouldn’t have been made again. Well you’d be wrong, as once again the new artwork cards just continue on with numbering. For Chrome 6 the new cards are numbered 251a/b-256a/b. So when Topps launches Chrome 7 next year, we will see the same doubling up of numbers in the sets. There are once again 50 C Name chards randomly inserted into packs. Each artwork has a third brand new name for collectors to find.

Artist autographs are back again. There are a total of 23 autos in the set. Longtime original artist Tom Bunk signed the “A” names for the 7 cards he painted in the set. First time Chrome signer James Warhola signed the “A” names for the 10 cards he painted in the set. The 6 new cards also feature sticker autos from the artists of those cards. John Pound did not sign any autos for the set. There is also a new type of card called, Color Error. A collector has already pulled an example of these, the name plate and banner are different colors, in addition to being numbered CE-#. There is one CE per “A” card in the set similar to the No Blue Errors from C5. You can check out the complete checklist here. 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome OS 6 is set to be released, tomorrow, 8/30/23.

2023 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome OS 6 Odds

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2023 Garage Pail Kids Chrome OS 6 are beginning to show up in the wild. Topps today posted the odds for both Hobby and Retail Blasters on their website. Topps begin earlier this year posting odds on their website for products, and no longer putting the odds on packs. This is the first time GPK odds have appeared on their website. There are a few surprises with the odds. Some new cards are making their debut. Color Errors are cards that appear to have a different color banner and nameplate and are numbered CE-#. There appears to be a CE card for each “A” name in the set. These are similar to the No Blue Error cards from C5, but based on the odds are much easier to pull this set. Also there are new 1/1 Superfractor Artist Autos in the set! We also now know regular artist autos are numbered /50. The official checklist hasn’t been released, so we aren’t sure how many autos appear in the set. Odds for both Blaster types are slightly different when it comes to the bigger hits in the product. EA Blasters appear to have slightly easier odds than SE Blasters. The big news here is it appears Topps learned their lesson and have corrected the massively incorrect odds from Chrome 5. If the odds show to be correct on cases breaks, it would appear there is a lot less Chrome 6 packs compared to the past couple of chrome releases. After Chrome 5 was heavily printed, it appears there is a fraction of retail C6 packs compared to C5. Hobby packs also appear to be slightly less than C4. Total production appears to be closer to C3 numbers. Much, much less than C5. I will have a detailed article on production in the coming days. Check out the odds for 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome OS 6 below, or click here for the PDF of the odds from Topps.

2023 GPK Chrome OS 6 Pack Odds

  • Refractor 1:3(Hobby/Blaster)
  • Atomic Refractor 1:2 (Blaster)
  • Green Refractor 1:49 (Hobby/Blaster)
  • Green Wave Refractor 1:49 (Hobby/Blaster)
  • Yellow Refractor 1:54 (Hobby/Blaster)
  • Yellow Wave Refractor 1:54 (Hobby/Blaster)
  • Purple Refractor 1:59 (Hobby/Blaster)
  • Purple Wave Refractor 1:59 (Hobby/Blaster)
  • Prism Refractor 1:74 (Hobby/Blaster)
  • Prism Aqua Refractor 1:74 (Hobby/Blaster)
  • X-Fractor 1:98 (Hobby/Blaster)
  • Black Refractor 1:70 (Blaster)
  • Black Wave Refractor 1:79 (Hobby)
  • Orange Refractor 1:103 (Hobby)
  • Gold Refractor 1:139 (Blaster)
  • Rose Gold Refractor 1:586 (Hobby) 1:587 & 1:588 (Blaster)
  • Red Refractor 1:1,539 (Hobby)
  • Superfractor 1:14,767 (Hobby) 1:13,505 & 1:14,819 (Blaster)
  • Printing Plate 1:3,656 (Hobby) 1:3,602 & 1:3,644 (Blaster)
  • Artist Autograph 1:1,254 (Hobby) 1:1,257 & 1:1,256 (Blaster)
  • Superfractor Artist Autograph 1:61,526 (Hobby) & 1:54,020 & 1:63,497 (Blaster)
  • C Name Variation 1:101 (Hobby 1:100 (Blaster)
  • Color Error 1:147 (Hobby/Blaster)

Topps Reveals Print Run for GPK We Hate the 70’s Week 3

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We are at the half way point for the online series based on the 1970’s and it looks like the sales have settled. After ending Thursday, Topps revealed the print run for 2023 Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the 70’s Week 3. The set sold a total of 1,191 copies. While the number is the lowest sales so far of the series, it’s just a handful below the week 2 sales. It would appear that sales will settle right around the 1200 mark. This series hasn’t quite caught the attention of collectors as much as previous six week online series. The coming weeks will see if there are any increases.

Topps Shares Box & Pack Art for 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome OS 6

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We are less than a week away from the next GPK Chrome release. Topps was nice enough to share the Blaster Box and Pack art for the upcoming 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome OS 6 set. The wrapper and box feature a purple color scheme. This differs from the original series 6 red box. However, Topps did keep the original pack mascot as Potty Scotty is the main character on the boxes and pack. No other surprises on the box or packs are revealed. The Hobby box art looks much the same, as Blowout Cards updated their listings with the Hobby box image today. It won’t be long, GPKNews has confirmed cases begin shipping from Topps today. GPK Chrome OS 6 is set to officially release next Wednesday, 8/30/23.

Dynamite Announces Garbage Pail Kids Trashin Through Time Issue #2

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The newest comic book saga featuring the Garbage Pail Kids is set to continue. Dynamite recently unveiled Garbage Pail Kids Trashin Theough Time Issue #2. The comic was written by Adam F Goldberg and Hans Rodionoff with artwork by Jeff Zapata and Chris Meeks. The description for this issue reads, “In this issue: Adam and his GPKommandos are Nasty Nick’s prisoners and there’s no way out! That is, until T.R.A.S.H. – Team of Rebels Assigned to Save Humankind – arrives on the scene! Now, our heroes must find a way back in time to stop Nasty Nick in the first place… what could go wrong!?!” As usual there will be a multitude of different covers and variations offered. Covers by Ray Lago, Jeff Zapata, Dustin Graham, and a forth classic card cover will all come ploybagged with an exclusive trading card. The comics will be available for preorder soon wherever comics are sold. GPK Trashin Through Time is set to hit shelves 11/8/23.

Topps Launches 2023 Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the 70’s Week 4

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It’s all about big hair and super powers as we move into the second half of sets based on everything 70’s. Today Topps launched 2023 Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the 70’s Week 4. Once again this week’s set contains 10 cards, 5 new pieces with a/b versions. All artwork for the series was done by David Gross and Brent Engstrom. Each set purchased also comes with one Sepia parallel card. One lucky collector will also receive a piece of the final card artwork. This week’s free painting is the Leisure Suit gag by David Gross. Sets can be bought 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 Hairy Cher
16B Bobbie Mackie
17A Duff N Stuff
17B Munching Marty
18A Leisure Larry
18B Manly Marcus
19A Wanda Women
19B Lacerated Lynda
20A Picking Piper
20B Afro Alice

Topps Reveals the Print Run for GPK We Hate the 70’s Week 2

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After ending Thursday, Topps has revealed the print run for 2023 Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the 70’s Week 2. The set sold a total of 1,214 copies. This number is down over 300 copies from the first week. This was the second set in a six week series showcasing the best of the 1970’s. For whatever reason the 70’s sets aren’t resonating as well as the previous Prime Slime series did. Let’s see if sales can rebound as the series progresses.