def’n: WORST
— The most severe, serious, or unpleasant thing (that could
happen). def’n: OF — Expressing
the relationship between a part and a whole. def’n: 40TH
— The ordinal number of forty in numbering or counting order,
position, time, etcetera. def’n: ANNIVERSARY
— The date (or period) on which an event took place (and
often celebrated yearly or for milestone years).

ORIGINAL SERIES
ARTISTS —
JOHN Pound, TOM Bunk, JAMES Warhola, DAVID Burke & MAE Jeon
NEXT-GEN ARTIST MATERIAL — JOE Simko, BRENT
Engstrom, Smokin’ JOE McWilliams, DAVID Gross, NEIL Camera + Interpretive
Guest Artists

NOTE: FOUR VARIANT PACKS/WRAPPERS

100
CARD SET —
100
A-NAMES
312 TOTAL SET*
—
100 A-NAMES + 100
B-NAMES (SP) + 23 C-NAMES (SSP) + 20 GPK ERAS +
20 GPK TAKEOVER + 8 WACKY PACKAGE GPK BOXES + 40 HOMAGE TO GARBAHJ
*NOT INCLUDING CHASE MATERIAL: PARALLELS,
REFRACTORS, AUTOGRAPH CARDS, SKETCH CARDS, PRINTING PLATES, BUYBACK
CARDS, GPK YOURSELF CARD.

On June 04, 2025, Topps placed a ‘Coming Soon: 2025 Worst of Garbage
Pail Kids Pre-Order’ link to their frontpage ‘Trending Now’ section,
using an ANS1 artwork image by artist TOM Bunk, where the body of the
GPK page stated, “Available Soon: Topps Garbage Pail Kids”
and “Upcoming Releases: 2025 Worst of Garbage Pail Kids – 40th
Anniversary – Pre-Order – Coming June 10th”. A ‘Notify Me’ link
was placed on the GPK page, which stated, “Thanks for signing up!
Be on the lookout for Topps Garbage Pail Kids”, once completed.
These sign-up notifications do not have a history of actually notifying
and working, historically speaking.

The tentative release title kept changing,
since Topps didn’t want ’40th Anniversary’ as the main title, believing
‘anniversary’ makes the brand sound outdated and old, and wanting to
draw in new and young collectors. Topps went with the long-running theme
of ‘Worst of…” which was a title pulled from end-of-year online
mini sets poking fun at the year’s strangest news articles, etcetera.
However, ’40th Anniversary’ is still the overall release and can also
be found printed below the GPK header on the sketch cards. New content
for the set was completed between January and April, 2025, but most
of the product was not listed within the posted online checklist; this
material will be released within the next GPK release, titled ‘Universe’,
pushed out to 2026. Due to retail store locations demanding Chrome product,
this set is a hobby-only, exclusive release.

TRENDING + EMAIL BLAST IMAGE

GPK landing page write-up: “Garbage
Pail Kids: Still Gross. Still Great. Since 1985, Garbage Pail Kids has
proudly stood as the unruly icon of pop culture parody. Dreamed up by
The Topps Company alongside a crew of legendary underground cartoonists,
GPK was an instant playground sensation—outrageous, hilarious,
and impossible to ignore. Its grotesque gags and gleeful irreverence
didn’t just shock school administrators—they supercharged
demand. As bans spread, so did the buzz. What started as a single sticker
card series snowballed into a full-blown collecting craze with over
a dozen original series and counting. Decades later, Garbage Pail Kids
is still delivering the weird, the wild, and the wonderfully warped.
From collectible trading cards to skateboards, cereal boxes, comics,
and crossover collabs with WWE, Netflix, Chalk Line, Funko, and Geeki
Tikis—GPK’s gross-out legacy lives on in every corner of pop
culture. Because once a GPK fan, always a GPK fan.”

On June 06, 2025, a Topps baseball email
blast was sent out, at roughly 3:00pm CT, that contained the pre-order
link image within the ‘Coming Soon’ section of the email correspondence,
simply stating ‘2025 Topps Worst of GPK Pre-Order’ and a ‘Notify Me’
button.

LANDING PAGE BANNER PIC

On June 09, 2025, Topps added a banner
image and set description to their GPK landing page, stating, “2025
Worst of Garbage Pail Kids – 40th Anniversary – Pre-Order. Get ready
for a party as we get ready to celebrate the Garbage Pail Kids’
40th Anniversary! Collect the entire 100 card Base set featuring of
the most popular GPK characters of all time! Each card in the set has
been immortalized with the GPK 40th anniversary logo. Look for Rare
Artist Autograph Cards, Collectible Inserts and Exclusive Parallels
such as the rare 40th Anniversary Ruby Parallel! Also, Look for your
chance to have your own GPK card created for a future GPK product release!
100 Base Set cards consisting of A-names, B-name gags and rare C-names
from Original Series sets over the past 4[0] years, as well as all-new
art pieces of Adam Bomb. Homage to Garbahj cards pays tribute to the
most recognizable GPK character, Adam Bomb! Collect all 40 art pieces
from various artists, depicting Adam Bomb in signature, never-before-seen
art styles. As always, look for original sketch cards celebrating GPK’s
40th anniversary. Look out for super rare, special edition, 40th anniversary
sketch cards from Tom Bunk, Smokin’ Joe and others! Hobby Boxes
will contain 8 packs per box – 5 cards per pack.” Topps also tweeted
their weekly release update on X/Twitter, stating, “Worst of GPK
(Pre-Order) Tues. 6/10 – 12PM EST. 5 cards per pack,8 packs per box.
Hobby Box: TBA.”

FRONT PAGE BANNER IMAGE

On June 10, 2025, the set ‘Odds’ were
added to the GPK landing page in the morning, and the set ‘Checklist’
was added during the late morning. By 11am CT, a large banner was added
to the Topps front page, and the hobby box and hobby box case links
added around 11:10am CT. An email blast was sent out around 11:05am
CT, with the subject title, ‘New Pre-Order: 2025 Worst of Garbage Pail
Kids – 40th Anniversary!’ and the main body reading, “Collect the
entire 100-card Base Set featuring some of the most popular GPK characters
of all time! Each card in the set is immortalized with the GPK 40th
Anniversary logo. Look for rare Artist Autograph Cards, collectible
inserts, and exclusive parallels — including the rare 40th Anniversary
Ruby Parallel! Plus, don’t miss your chance to have your very own
GPK card created for a future GPK product release!”

On April 30, 2025, a Ripped article was posted to the Topps website
with the title of “When Garbage Pail Kids Ruled the World: 40 Years
Later” by Nando di Fino.
How GPK Took Over Pop Culture. To truly
understand the rise of Garbage Pail Kids, one must first understand
the media landscape 40 years ago. “There were only three channels!”
is a lie. Cable was around. HBO was around! Even WrestleMania, debuting
in 1985, could be purchased on PPV. But the choices were so limited—and
recording a show meant buying a VCR—that people generally watched
a lot of the same things at the same time. There was no Internet (at
least not in homes), so even minor queries had to be researched—or
you called someone really smart or with an encyclopedia to ask. And
while there were plenty of newspapers, they ran a lot of syndicated
columns, so one writer could appear in hundreds of papers across North
America at once. In other words, it wasn’t hard to start a media
frenzy if something got picked up by the TV news. And if it hit the
general consciousness a few days before a holiday, when people got together
and caught up? Things could get Berserk Kirk very quickly. So 1985 was,
in many ways, the perfect storm for a Bob Greene syndicated column to
catch fire. It ran the day before Thanksgiving, telling the tale of
a quiet 12-year-old 7th-grader who discovered a “Most Unpopular
Student” Garbage Pail Kid “award” on his desk one day
at school. Greene introduced his readers to a stunned teacher and “angry”
principal (both nameless and with no indication of the school, location,
or any other details), who “couldn’t believe that Topps would
sell this kind of thing.” The principal went to investigate at
a vague “store across from the school” and discovered more
Garbage Pail Kids, sold with a piece of bubble gum, “just like
old baseball cards.”
Greene’s story continues in a predictably cornball manner, but,
being an early anti-GPK story, it’s missing a key element —
rage about the front of the cards. Many early stories focused on those
terribly hurtful awards on the back, and not the illustrations on the
front. In early December, Philadelphia Daily News columnist Carol Towarnicky
jumped on the bandwagon, bemoaning elements like the Ugly Award, while
only briefly focusing on the Kids. “Even the bubblegum that’s
included,” she wrote, “won’t settle your stomach when
you see the images being sold to grade school children.” She then
went on to praise the imperfect He-Man — which also depicts skeletons,
she reasoned — for at least having “a moral” to its story.
Adding more fuel to the flames? It was Christmas time, and GPKs were
a hot item.From the Pacifica Tribune on December 12, 1985: “Dear
Santa, I want a bike and Garbage Pail Kids stickers. I want clothes,
too. Thats it! THANK YOU. Jenny Araquistaine, age 10, Del Mar Ave.”
And in the Daily Republican-Register on December 23: “Dear Santa,
I hope you can get to my house. This is what I want for Christmas. I
want a My Buddy, Cabbagepacht kid. A B-B gun and a four packs of garbage
pail kids. And some baseball cards. A compouter and and computer desk.
I hope you are cookies and milk. And I want some B-B too with my gun.
And I want a Pound Puppy. Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
And see you next year by. love, Jay Pettyjohn.” Things were about
to get fun. And not just for schoolkids and collectors.
Bad Publicity, Norman Liss, and the GPK Phenomenon.
Christmas came and went without any noticeable opinion column attacks,
but when the papers started up their rabble-rousing again in January,
“Topps Spokesman Norman Liss” became the main character we
all needed. Liss’ job, essentially, was to laugh off any controversy
and assure parents and fist-shaking columnists that this was just a
limited run series and people were making a big deal out of nothing.
Topps, he pointed out, had done this sort of stuff before — Garbage
Candy in 1975, Rat Fink Cards, Ugly Stickers, and more. They came and
went without much hullabaloo.But a funny thing happened on the way to
limiting GPKs to just one series — demand was through the roof,
and frothy media people thinking they were taking ethical stands (not
unlike He-Man) were actually just helping to boost the popularity of
the cards. Liss even referred to the Greene column as helpful in driving
sales.
On January 18, 1986, South Dakota’s Argus-Leader quoted a local
distributor who estimated his 28,000 packs of GPK would sell out in
a week. In a January 27 story in Louisville’s Courier-Journal,
it was reported that the Convenient Food Mart chain had decided to pull
the cards off their shelves. Liss noted that the action would mean little
to overall sales, as “most stores can’t get enough of them.”
The paper talked to a franchisee of Convenient Food Marts who defiantly
said he wouldn’t pull the cards from his store because they sold
so well. And Terry Smith, a local Louisville distributor, noted that
Garbage Pail Kids were outselling Snickers — the No. 1 candy bar
in America — 13 to 1.“There’s no way we’re going
to get out of that business,” Smith said. At the end of the month,
a school in White Plains, NY had banned GPK cards. In February, Liss
was talking about a third series on the way (this was obviously no longer
a limited one-series run) and noted that the cards “cannot be made
fast enough” to satisfy demand. Liss also had a classic quote in
“Education Week,” noting that “kids are very much into
garbage.” The New York Times eventually entered the fray, reporting
on three more schools that banned the cards. But the paper also found
a group of parents who didn’t mind GPK, as the cards might encourage
children to read, “even if the subject matter is Leaky Lindsey.”In
May, the LA Times reported on another school ban — not because
the cards were gross or in bad taste, but because the constant demand
and trading created, according to the principal, “a little black
market so we had to squelch it.” The story also mentioned a store
owner who was price gouging packs up to 45 cents (they retailed for
25 cents) and noted that cards could be found in liquor stores.
By the time July rolled around, people were still expressing disgust
at the cards, which had been out for over a year at that point. Some
went a little over the top.“Topps is deliberately trying to subvert
the tranquility of our children,” A. James Manchin, then the Treasurer
of West Virginia said. “I believe Topps is that little portion
of hell that never caught fire.”By this point, however, it was
fruitless. The more Manchin-types brought what they thought was negative
attention to the cards, the more popular they became. Liss noted that
Topps, now on a fourth series, had “three shifts working”
and even brought in extra equipment, and they still couldn’t keep
up with demand. The head cashier at an Orlando Kay-Bee told the Orlando
Sentinel that “the phone rings all day with people wanting to know
if we’ve got them.”Garbage Pail Kids had won. As Series 6
cards were being run off three printing machines overnight, parents
everywhere had to learn the difference between wax packs and rack packs.

The Garbage Pail Kids Legacy Endures. On
August 7, 1987, the Masters of the Universe movie, featuring He-Man
and, of course, a story involving a skeleton but with a moral, was released.
Two weeks later, on August 21, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie premiered.
In what must have been a very confusing time period for Carol Towarnicky,
the movies ended up playing side by side in theaters across the country.
As for Bob Greene? By the time February 1986 rolled around, he had moved
on to offering poorly aged opinions on the Challenger explosion, including
an exercise pitting the shuttle tragedy against the Kennedy Assassination
and stating that, “within two years, very few people will remember
the date of the Challenger explosion.” And the Garbage Pail Kids?
After 40 years, they’re still releasing sets, books, and pop culture
ephemera.

On June 11, 2025, a Ripped article
was posted to the Topps website with the title of “How to Collect:
2025 Worst of Garbage Pail Kids – 40th Anniversary”
Inside 2025 Worst of Garbage Pail Kids –
40th Anniversary. Since their explosive debut in 1985, Garbage
Pail Kids have been an icon of pop culture rebellion, humor, and boundary-pushing
art. Now, four decades later, Topps is celebrating the 40th anniversary
of the brand that flipped the trading card world upside down. 2025 Worst
of Garbage Pail Kids — 40th Anniversary is more than a tribute.
It’s a full-blown celebration of the characters, chaos, and global
impact that made GPK a household name. With a carefully crafted 100-card
base set, stunning new insert concepts, and autograph sets that honor
both legendary and rising artists, this release captures everything
that’s made Garbage Pail Kids timeless and even more collectible.
Whether you grew up with GPK or you are just now discovering their mischievous
charm, this is the ultimate collector’s set to mark four decades
of creative anarchy.
The Basics of 2025 Worst of Garbage Pail Kids.
The 100-card base set features classic Garbage Pail Kids characters
presented in bold fashion, each stamped with a special 40th Anniversary
logo to mark the milestone. These cards offer a perfect mix of nostalgia
and history, reminding collectors why Garbage Pail Kids have remained
an enduring part of pop culture. From original characters to some of
the most infamous names ever to grace a sticker card, the base set is
a love letter to the kids who made gross-out humor legendary.
40th Anniversary GPK Inserts to Know. Inserts
add another layer of excitement to the anniversary release. Homage to
Gar-bahj reimagines GPK’s most famous character, Adam Bomb, with
40 different artists offering their unique interpretations. Legendary
GPK artists like Joe Simko join forces with new talent to reinvent Adam
Bomb’s iconic image, giving collectors a glimpse at how a single
character can evolve while maintaining his unmistakable identity.
Another highlight is the Wacky Packages crossover. For the first time
ever, GPK is parodied by Wacky Packages, a full-circle moment for Topps.
This set takes classic GPK trading card boxes and gives them the Wacky
Packages treatment, blending two of Topps’ most beloved parody
brands into one hilarious and highly collectible insert.
Global Takeover taps into the international appeal Garbage Pail Kids
have enjoyed since their inception. Repurposing classic characters into
different languages, this insert celebrates GPK’s worldwide reach
and pays tribute to the highly collectible international variations
that have captivated collectors for decades.
Collect Sick Autos. Autograph sets bring
even more to chase. The Artist Autographs feature signatures from 100
different artists who have kept GPK’s distinctive style alive over
the years. From long-time fan favorites to fresh faces, this set bridges
GPK’s rich history with its exciting future. Meanwhile, the Homage
to Gar-bahj autographs add another layer of excitement, offering signed
versions of the 40 Adam Bomb redesigns by the artists who created them.
As the most recognizable GPK character, Adam Bomb’s legacy is immortalized
in a way that combines creative reinvention with true collectible rarity.
2025 Worst of Garbage Pail Kids — 40th Anniversary is a milestone
release that blends nostalgia with new energy. For longtime fans, it
offers a trip back to the wild, irreverent world that defined their
childhoods. For new collectors, it provides a chance to experience the
legendary artistry and humor of Garbage Pail Kids in a way that feels
both timeless and fresh. With a mix of iconic characters, creative reimaginings,
and must-have autographs, this set is a true celebration of everything
Garbage Pail Kids stand for. Four decades later, Garbage Pail Kids are
still gross, still hilarious, and still one of the most collectible
brands in the world. This anniversary release makes sure it stays that
way.

On July 03, 2025, a Ripped article
was posted to the Topps website with the title of “How to Collect:
Rare Garbage Pail Kids Cards to Collect” by Gerard Jones, with
links to Fanatics store.
Collect the Greatest and the Grossest.
When we look back on Topps releases from the 1980s, classic baseball
sets obviously come to mind, but few sports releases from that era took
hold of pop culture like Garbage Pail Kids. The classic original series
spawned a movie and countless sticker collections. Over the decades,
collectors have only become more insatiable for the alliterative monsters
made famous by the art of John Pound and Art Spiegelman. As demand grew
and re-releases and brand-new editions of GPK stocked store shelves,
the intentionally off-putting parody evolved to spoof pop culture generally,
with no one safe from the simultaneously cute and unappealing style.
Now, let’s take a journey into the revolting past and present of
the Garbage Pail Kids. From the original Series 1, to special insert
sets in Bowman Chrome® Baseball and fresh GPK sets lovingly crafted
by some truly sick minds. Are there any gross cards that you love that
we forgot to mention? Let us know!
1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 #8A Adam
Bomb. Character Info: Adam Bomb is the cousin of Blasted Billy
(#8B), but is far more popular among collectors. Arguably the most iconic
GPK art and most well-known character, serving as cover wrapper character
art for the first five series. Set Info: 88 total stick cards broken
into 44A and 44B. What They Said: “Art (Spiegelman) said to make
the kids gross, nasty, disgusting, and rebellious, and I saw that shock
value was a huge part of the idea. But as I worked on the sketches,
I realized I also wanted the kids and artwork to feel good to look at.”
– artist John Pound. [PSA 10 GEM MINT: $8,500.00]
2015 Topps Garbage Pail Kids 30th Anniversary
80’s Spoof #7A Mad Michael. Character Info: A spoof of Chicago
Bulls legend Michael Jordan. Set Info: ‘80s Spoofs is a 25-card
insert set. 132-card base set (66 A/B cards). Card back Info: An ‘80s
Spoof insert graphic with the phrase “Parodying fellow ‘80s
icons” and card number. [PSA 9 MINT: $149.00]
2024 Bowman Chrome® Garbage Pail Kids #BGP-21
Dodging Yamamoto. Character Info: A characterization of Los Angeles
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto. 2024 Bowman Chrome® Baseball
featured other GPK characterizations of young MLB stars such as New
York Yankees prospect Jasson Dominguez, Jackson Holliday, and more.
Set Info: 23 total players are characterized for the GPK insert set.
What They Said: “I think it’s a fad, just like the baseball
and football cards. It’s something to trade, and I think they’ll
get over it soon.” – Ms Karen Thomas, interviewed on the news
in 1986. [No link]
1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 #1A Nasty
Nick. Character Info: The card designated as the very first name
on top of the set list for GPK Series 1. Shares art with Evil Eddie
1B, with Nasty Nick being more desirable in The Hobby. Set Info: 88
total stick cards broken into 44A and 44B . Series 1 features Glossy
and Matte card finishes. Card Back Info: An official certificate to
“Stay Up Late” and watch “the late show” signed
by the President of the B.E.B. (Bloodshot Eye Brigade). [PSA 10 GEM
MINT: $11,500.00]
2013 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome® Original Series 1 #1A Atomic Nasty
Nick Refractor. Character Info: Nasty Nick biting the neck of a small
doll shows how small some of the original GPK characters were thought
to be. Set Info: 110-card base set with 41 A/B cards, 14 (A/B) Lost
GPK cards. Refractors were introduced into GPK for the first time in
this set. Card Back Info: An exact recreation of the certificate to
Stay Up Late with a “Refractor” label along the border. [No
link]

The week of July 28, 2025, the
Topps main page had the 40th release posted within their ‘Trending Now’
section and listed as ‘2025 Worst of Garbage Pail Kids – 40th Anniversary’,
and the GPK landing page stating, “Upcoming Releases: 2025 Worst
of Garbage Pail Kids – 40th Anniversary – Coming July 30th at 1pm ET”.
Topps also send out a blast email the same day, around 6:30pm CT, also
stating the set was ‘Coming Soon’, with the ‘Trending’ image.

On July 30, 2025, the 40th Anniversary boxes dropped on Topps.com without
the ‘Pre-Order’ tagline, and cost $89.99 and $899.99, rather then the
previous $79.99 and $799.99 pricetags. Although Topps promoted a 1pm
ET release time, the product dropped at the usual 12pm ET timeframe.
The case SOLD OUT under five minutes and the hobby boxes SOLD OUT within
ten minutes. The boxes posted to the UK website for £80.00, also
SOLD OUT in record time. An blast email, titled ‘Now Live: 2025 Worst
of Garbage Pail Kids – 40th Anniversary!’, went out the same day at
11am CT, and stated, “Collect the entire 100-card Base Set featuring
some of the most popular GPK characters of all time! Each card in the
set is immortalized with the GPK 40th Anniversary logo. Look for rare
Artist Autograph Cards, collectible inserts, and exclusive parallels—including
the rare 40th Anniversary Ruby Parallel! Plus, don’t miss your
chance to have your very own GPK card created for a future GPK product
release!”, with the same ‘EMAIL BLAST‘ image
seen further above.

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HOBBY COUNTER DISPLAY BOX
COUNTER HOBBY BOX W/ ‘H’: PKG015755 :
UPC 8-87521-14250-7 — 8 PACK
CARDBOARD CASE BOX : FGC006272 : PKG015756 : UPC 8-87521-14251-4—
10 BOX/8 PACK CT
WRAPPER W/ ‘H’: PKG015754 : UPC 8-87521-14249-1 — FOUR VERSIONS
[NASTY NICK, ADAM BOMB, MESSY TESSIE + UNZIPPED ZACH]
BOX + WRAPPER ARTWORK : JOHN POUND

2025 Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary – Hobby
Box – June 10, 2025 Pre-Order — $79.99
Limit per customer: 20 — NOTE: Sold
Out in under 15mins
2025 Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary – Hobby
Box – July 30, 2025 Release — $89.99
Limit per customer: 10 — NOTE: Sold
Out in under 10mins

Overview
— 5 cards per pack, 8 packs per box. PRE-ORDER DETAILS: Orders
taken during pre-order window will begin shipping ahead of release date,
July 11, 2025 [NOTE: Changed to July 30, 2025 at a later date]. Release
dates are subject to change. For pre-order items, select Economy Shipping,
as these items will ship early to be delivered on the release date.
Orders for delivery outside the continental United States or to PO Boxes
are not guaranteed to arrive by street date. Pre-order items will ship
separate from other items in an order. Payment is captured at the time
of checkout. *Required to be logged into your account to purchase

Specs — SKU: FGC006272-DB [Display
Box] • Category: Entertainment • Sub Categories: Other •
Product Year: 2025 • Brand: Topps • Sub Brand: — • Product
Type: Hobby • [Available From
Jul 30, 2025]

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2025 Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary – Hobby
Box – Sealed Case – June 10, 2025 Pre-Order — $799.99
Limit per customer: 10 — NOTE: Sold
Out in under 5mins
2025 Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary – Hobby
Box – Sealed Case – July 30, 2025 Pre-Order — $899.99
Limit per customer: 4 — NOTE: Sold
Out in under 5mins

Overview
— 5 cards per pack, 8 packs per box. 10 boxes per case. PRE-ORDER
DETAILS: Orders taken during pre-order window will begin shipping ahead
of release date, June [July] 11, 2025 [NOTE: Changed to July 30, 2025
at a later date]. Release dates are subject to change. For pre-order
items, select Economy Shipping, as these items will ship early to be
delivered on the release date. Orders for delivery outside the continental
United States or to PO Boxes are not guaranteed to arrive by street
date. Pre-order items will ship separate from other items in an order.
Payment is captured at the time of checkout. *Required to be logged
into your account to purchase

Description
— Get ready for a party as we get ready to celebrate the Garbage
Pail Kids’ 40th Anniversary! Collect the entire 100 card Base set
featuring of the most popular GPK characters of all time! Each card
in the set has been immortalized with the GPK 40th anniversary logo.
Look for Rare Artist Autograph Cards, Collectible Inserts and Exclusive
Parallels such as the rare 40th Anniversary Ruby Parallel! Also, Look
for your chance to have your own GPK card created for a future GPK product
release! 100 Base Set cards consisting of A-names, B-name gags and rare
C-names from Original Series sets over the past 4 years, as well as
all-new art pieces of Adam Bomb. Homage to Garbahj cards pays tribute
to the most recognizable GPK character, Adam Bomb! Collect all 40 art
pieces from various artists, depicting Adam Bomb in signature, never-before-seen
art styles. As always, look for original sketch cards celebrating GPK’s
40th anniversary. Look out for super rare, special edition, 40th anniversary
sketch cards from Tom Bunk, Smokin’ Joe and others! 8 packs per
box – 5 cards per pack. 10 boxes per case. All sales are final. Art
subject to change. Not responsible for typographical/printer errors.

Specs
— SKU: FGC006272-CSE [Case] • Category: Entertainment •
Sub Categories: Other • Product Year: 2025 • Brand: Topps
• Sub Brand: — • Product Type: Hobby • [Available From
Jul 30, 2025]

Description — Same as U.S. release.
Specs — SKU FGC006272-DB • Category:
Entertainment • Sub Categories: Other • Sub Type: Hobby •
Product Year: 2025 • Brand: Topps • Sub Brand — • Product
Type: Hobby • Available From: Jul 30, 2025

TO CELEBRATE ALL THINGS GPK, TOPPS PRESENTS
THE “GPK YOURSELF” SWEEPSTAKES!

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On June 11, 2025, artist DAVE Gross took
to his Facebook social media channel and stated, “The new Garbage
Pail Kids Worst Of set is coming out soon. I only painted four cards
for it and found out two were pulled so down to [only] two now. I didn’t
have time to work on the Homage to Adam Bomb subset or do any sketch
cards so… not much for me to say about the set. Here’s one of my pulled
paintings for the Wacky Packages GPK boxes. OS 1 Box.” Gross also
added that “There was an additional subset everyone worked on that
was completely pulled. That will be in a set coming in 2026 instead.”
Gross also posted on June 12, 2025, the same message as the 11th, but
changed two parts, “… Here’s the second of my pulled paintings
for the Wacky Packages GPK boxes. OS 6 Box.” NOTE:
There’s a slight chance these could show up in next year’s GPK Universe
set.

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On July 24, 2025, artist DAVE Gross took
to his Facebook social media channel and stated, “The new Garbage
Pail Kids Worst Of set is out now. I only painted four cards for it
and found out two were pulled so down to two now. Here’s one of the
two Wacky Packages GPK cards I painted for the subset that actually
made it into the set.”, and to his Instagram channel and mentioned,
“Garbage Pail Kids Cheap Toys Wacky Packages card I painted for
the new Worst Of retail set out this week.” NOTE: The release was
pushed back to July 30, 2025, in the U.S., but there were posts that
collectors in the UK were ripping boxes. On July 25, 2025, Gross shared
his ‘Ghastly Pail Kids’ card image, stating, “Oh, The Horrorible
Garbage Pail Kids/Wacky Packages mashup I painted for the new Worst
Of GPK retail set out this week.”

—
Next generation artist, BRENT Engstrom, is one of the only original
gangster (OG) artists that had a character picked within the base set,
along with the Original Series (OS) artists. Engstrom mentioned he signed
500 cards for this character. I believe this is the first release to
have signed printing plates, which mixes things up a bit from previous
releases. The following Wacky Packages GPK Boxes by artist BRENT Engstrom
remain unpublished: Gutter Punk Kids (OS10) / STINKERS
— BUBBLE SCUM, SkiniKins / SKINI FIGURES
(MiniKins), and Garbage Impale Kids / KIDS AT SLAY
(Kids at Play). NOTE: There’s a slight chance these could show up in
next year’s GPK Universe set.

—
On June 11, 2025, artist Smokin’ JOE McWilliams
took to his Facebook social media channel and stated, “GPK Was
the Worst 2025 set just dropped… Here’s the piece I created for the
Homage to Adam Bomb subset… although it looks like it was not included
in the release. (Looks like I’ll have a new die-cut sticker at the next
Gross Card Con!”) NOTE: There’s
a slight chance this could show up in next year’s GPK Universe set.

—
On June 11, 2025, artist JOE Simko took
to his social media channels and stated, “My Abstract Expressionist
Adam Bomb painting for the Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary set.”
See anniversary mascot image at the top of the page. Per correspondence,
Simko stated he signed 500 autograph cards and completed just one sketch
card. On July 31, 2025, Simko posted an image of the Homage to Garbahj
autograph card, stating, “GPK 40th Anniversary set out now. Limited
number of this card floating around in random packs.”

—
On August 01, 2025, artist Smokin’ JOE
McWilliams took to Facebook to share an unpublished piece, stating,
“Topps just released ‘The Worst of GPK: 40th Anniversary’ series…
mostly OS characters but I did contribute new artwork to a couple subsests.
Sadly, a few of my pieces got left behind. Here is a peek at one of
my Wacky GPK boxes that didn’t cut the mustart… enjoy!”, poking
fun at the 1980’s GPK Buttons release, and another one posted on August
08, 2025. stating, “… Here is a peek at another one of my Wacky
GPK boxes that didn’t cut the mustard… Maybe all the news about alien
ships headed our way spooked them?”, spoofing the 2016S1 ‘American
as Apple Pie in Your Face!’ release. NOTE: There’s a slight chance this
could show up in next year’s GPK Universe set.

—
A total of twenty artists worked on the
Homage to Garbahj (sounds like ‘Garbage’) subset, including artist
JOE Simko… intrepretive guest artists, reminiscent to the non-GPK
artists mixed in with regular GPK artists for the IDW Comic releases.
A total of 40 paintings, for forty years, was created to pay tribute
to the forever infamous OS1 ADAM Bomb character. Topps had told GPK
News that five artists had failed to return their autograph cards back
in time, so ten characters can be located without autograph cards. Cart
artwork shown by Hag Fersner. See checklist further below for more details.

—
The ’40th Anniversary’ logo began to show
up on pre-orders and advertising for GPK licensed product in early 2025,
celebrating the forty years since the Garbage Pail Kids that were released
in 1985, including license holders for Abrams (ComicArts) and Get-A-Grip
Skateboards. The four ‘BONUS STICKERS‘ card images
are brand-new artwork by GPK artists JOE Simko, BRENT Engstrom, DAVID
Gross, and Smokin’ JOE McWilliams, paying tribute to the 40-year anniversary.
See the GPK 2025 Licences page for
more information.

—
The same images used for the Abrams ‘BONUS
STICKERS‘ card images, mentioned above, with artwork by Engstrom,
McWilliams, Gross, and Simko, respectively, were originally created
for the 40th Anniversary release, and also used for the 21-piece puzzles
for the backside of the base card set within the 40 Anniversary release.
The artwork for the DAVID Gross piece can also be located as a card
image released with the Greenlight Collectibles GPK vehicle as a SDCC
2025 exlusive, as a variant for Thrilljoy Collectibles ADAM Bomb GPK
figure, and PSA Magazine cover.

—
Per GPK News on social media, “Adam Bomb & Nasty Nick will
make an appearance in 2025 Topps Shoebox Treasures.”, and within
his website, “Both Adam Bomb and Nasty Nick appear on the checklist
for 2025 Topps Shoebox Treasures by Andy Friedman. The Adam Bomb card
is being used by Topps to promote the set. There a chance the cards
will also be available in a number of parallels. The set also looks
to be giving away the original paintings form the set, as both GPK characters
also appear on the 1/1 Original Paintings checklist. The product will
be an available Aug. 28, 2025.”

—
Along with a much small production run,
which make it impossible to even complete a regular A-base set with
one box, let alone several, the printing has a much lower quality of
card stock, off cutting (rough cuts), dark numbers on dark backgrounds,
and incorrect nameplate & logo colours.

—
On Friday, August 15, 2025, Topps took to their social media channels
to announce the 2025 MLB Bowman Chrome release that would contain GPK
baseball player caricatures by artist DAVID Gross. Additionally, Topps
and PSA Card announced that PSA Magazine would have two covers
for the 40th anniversary of GPK, a sports cover with Mets® player
JUAN Soto (& premium members would receive a sports GPK card) and
a pop culture & TCG GPK cover (& premium members would receive
a non-sports GPK card). Per PSA Card, “Garbage Day: PSA Magazine
& Garbage Pail Kids. Garbage Pail Kids cover variants and exclusive
promo cards are coming to both editions of PSA Magazine in October for
first time ever to celebrate four memorable decades of GPK. All Collectors
Club members will receive a collectible cover, but only Collectors Club
Premium members will receive a promo card. To
receive one of these exclusive promo cards with the October issue, join
Collectors Club Premium or upgrade your existing membership by August
31.”

—
Cards 10a Barfin’ BART and 10b Projectile
GILES, with artwork by JOHN Pound from OS4, was incorrectly named after
the 2014S2 (81a Barfy BART and) 81b Projectile GILES, by artist JOE
Simko, rather than the OS4 nomenclature of 162a Yicchy MICKEY and 162b
Barfin’ BART. For cards 29a Disgustin’ JUSTIN and 29b Vile KYLE, with
artwork by JOE Simko, Topps used the artwork for 2020S2, Cards 9a Disgustin’
JUSTIN and 9b Motorized SCOOTER, within the ‘All Grown Up’ subset, rather
than the OS2 artwork, for cards 47a/b, by artist JOHN Pound.

OG ANNIVERSAR SKETCH CARD BACK SAMPLE

Staring with the Chrome S7 release, the Topps Company rolled out a new
sketch-card format, adopting a universal blank card for all hobby exclusive
and hobby/retail release going forward; so considering no longer theme-specific,
there won’t be a way of associating what release the sketch card came
from, but this release does have ’40TH ANNIVERSARY’ printed under the
GPK header. This new, four-card tiered system has done away with the
panoramic sketches, triptych, loaded puzzles, etcetera, from the line-up,
and will focus more on artwork quality assurance and control.

STARDARD SKETCH CARD BACK SAMPLE

GREEN COMMON SKETCH CARD — NO 1/1 BORDER ON BACKSIDE
/ NO DRIP UNDER RED HEADER ON FRONTSIDE
GUIDELINES: CHARACTER FULL BODY SKETCH OR COLOUR ARTWORK;
HEAD-ONLY MUST BE FULL COLOUR.
SILVER SKETCH CARD — 1/1 BORDER ON BACKSIDE / SILVER
DRIP UNDER SILVER FOIL HEADER ON FRONTSIDE
GUIDELINES: CHARACTER HEAD, TORSO, OR FULL BODY IN FULL
COLOUR OR B&W WITH FULL SHADING.
GOLD SKETCH CARD — 1/1 BORDER ON BACKSIDE / GOLD
DRIP UNDER GOLD FOIL HEADER ON FRONTSIDE
GUIDELINES: CHARACTER HEAD & TORSO OR FULL BODY IN
FULL COLOUR.
BLACK SKETCH CARD — 1/1 BORDER ON BACKSIDE / BLACK
DRIP UNDER BLACK FOIL HEADER ON FRONTSIDE
GUIDELINES: CHARACER FULL BODY & FULL COLOUR ARTWORK
WITH BACKGROUND DETAIL.

GOLD SKETCH CARD BACK SAMPLE

One-hundred-and-one artists contributed to the Sketch cards for the
Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary release, including several, first-time
GPK sketch artists, denoted as [R] rookie—listed alphabetically
by surname—and/or with ‘handle’. List is a comparison to the Chrome
release with additions and subtractions: Jeff
Abar [R] •
(J.) David Acevedo •
(Simone) Arena • Andrew (Andy)
Artz • Robert
‘El Smetchö‘
Garcia (Rö García Astorga)
• Robert Ball • Quinton Chase Baker
• Sam
Barugh • Bobby
‘B’ Blakey • Jason
Bryant •
Tom Bunk [OG] •
Kyle Calmbacher • Neil
Camera • Marion Carole Miller • Nik ‘GPK Nik’ Castaneda •
Slippa (Jordan Gumbrell) Chervascus • Timothy ‘Tom Clayton’ Clinton
• Daniel Contois • Jasmine Contois • (Sebastian) Sobot
Cortez • Coy Soup • Jeff(rey)
‘JC’ Cox • Steve Crockett • Jason Crosby •
Ted Dastick Jr •
Michael ‘Mike’ Davidson •
David Day • Vincent ‘Chenduz’ D’Ippolito
• Adam ‘AD ROCK’ Dobrzeniecki •
‘Big Adam’ Edwards •
Brent Engstrom [OG] •
Keith Farnum • Joey ‘Yoga
Demon’ Fitchett
• Floydman • Shane
‘Grimm’ Garvey • Patrick Giles • Rusty Gilligan •
Daniel Goodroad • Terry Gordon • Dustin Graham • Keven
Graham [R] • Kelly Greider • Kimber Grobman •
J. Hammond • R.(obert) Harris •
Ryan ‘Albino Ryno’ Harris
• Lowell Isaac (Hildebrandt) • Guy Holzer • Robert Jimenez
• ‘K’arl Jones • (Zlatan) Debjit Kar • Rickey Kipfer
• Brandon Klein • ‘Ghoulie
Julie Kuaniver’ •
Jim Kyle • Mike La Peruta • Eric ‘E’ Lassen • A(aron)
Laurich • Brandon ‘Fox Layng’
• Cesar Lopez • Dan Lydiate • Matt
Maldonado [R] • Steven W. Martin • Mike
McHugh • Julia McKenzie • Rory McQueen • Smokin’
Joe McWilliams [OG] • Eric Medina • Chris Meeks •
Sandy Meeks • Lily Zapata Mercado • Rich(ard) ‘RAM’ Molinelli
• John ‘Ziggy’ Monserrat
• Victor Moreno • Nik(las) S. Muggli • Erik Muller •
B(arry) Nygma (aka Spears) • Justin ‘JBoom/Justino’ R. Olson
• Julien Pannetier • Mark Parisi • Kris Penix •
Darrin Pepe • Anthony M. Pietszak • Vini Pirani • Vincent
Rappa • ‘Jean Pierre 86’ Seminario (Sempar) • Cathy Razim
• Paul D. Reynolds (PDR) • Edward (Eddie L.) Rhodes III •
Rich(ard) Rios • Mike Ritchey • Lee Rumball • Carmen
SantaFerrara Jr • (Chad) Scheres
• B.rent Scotchmer • Bryan
Siegel • Joe
Simko [OG] • Brandhen (Snyder) • Matt Steffens •
Mike Stephens • ‘Creepy Steve’ Stylianou • Greg(ory) Tilson
• RJ Tomascik • Greg(ory) ‘Greg13’
Treize (Fages) • Nicole Vuong • Gavin
Williams, and • Clinton ‘C-DUB’ Yeager.

INSTAGRAM
gig_art80
(Patrick Giles) [07/28 + 07/30/2025] — “2025 Topps Garbage
Pail Kids: Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary set hits stores July 30th.
I did 70 sketch cards for the set. Happy Hunting.” + “Here
are my sketch cards for The Worst of Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary
set that is officially in stores today. Happy Hunting!“
cscheres (Chad) [07/29 + 07/30/2025] —
(IMAGE ONLY) + “Garbage Pail Kids 49th is out now! here’s a peek
of some of the one of a kind Hand drawn sketch cards that I did for
the set.”
carmen_santaferrara_art [07/29 + 07/30
+ 07/31/2025] — “Here are all 80 sketch cards that I drew
for this set!”
(STORY) + “The “Worst”
of Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary set finally released today! Here
are the first 6 of 80 sketch cards that I drew for the set to celebrate!!”
+ “The “Worst” of Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary
set finally released yesterday! Here’s another 6 of 80 sketch cards
that I drew for the set to celebrate! So excited to finally share all
of my sketches!!”, etcetera…
lee_gpk
(Rumball) [07/30/2025] — “40th Anniversary release day! Let
me know if you see any of these sketches!”

gpk_vinnie () [07/30/2025] — “Happy
40th GPK! Today’s the official release of the highly anticipated
anniversary set and I’m proud to share a few of the 70 cards I
sketched for the set. Happy hunting!”
mikelaperuta [07/30/2025] — “TOPPS
GARBAGE PAIL KIDS 2025 40TH ANNIVERSARY released TODAY!! I wanted everyone
to know I did 2 WAVES of this 2025 set!! GOOD LUCK FINDING ONE!! If
you don’t I have plenty of blanks for commissions like these.”
guyholzertoppsofficial [07/30 + 07/31//2025]
— “Garbage Pail Kids: Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary series
hits the streets TODAY! I contributed a combined 70 sketches between
Wave1 and Wave 2 Pretty excited to start sharing ‘em!!” +
“Garbage Pail Kids: Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary edition. Available
today, and SOLD OUT within minutes because folks be doing for themselves
and leaving nothing for the casual collector. It’s sad to me, .
But hey, they saved me $89.99 So… This is the first Wave of 40
sketches which I contributed. Did have a blast working on these and
am excited to start seeing em get yanked! Happy Huntin’.”
+ “Garbage Pail Kids: Worst of GPK 40th Anniversary. This is Wave
2 (30) sketches which I provided for this release. I put a lotta Blood,
Sweat and Tears into this. Perhaps a lil Poo and Boogers too, cuz it’s
GPK. Have had a blast sketching for GPK these past 2 years. Is the ride
over??? Only time will tell! I’m still waiting to see my first
one pulled from a 40th box.”
jbgpk85 (Jason Bryant) [07/30/2025] —
“Hello Folks! Here are a few of my sketch contributions to The
“Worst” of Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary! These boxes
are loaded with goodies, so be sure to find a box tomorrow upon release!”
qza_king0fmars (Quinton Chase Baker) [07/30/2025]
— “Garbage pail kids 40th anniversary set is released in stores
today! Here are sketch cards i created for the set.”
kimberlandart (Grobman) [07/30 + 07/31/2025]
— “Happy 40th Anniversary GPK! I did 60 cards total for this
set, 40 gold and I also did 20 green. I decided since the back design
was the same as chrome, I would add a cupcake to each card so you’ll
know it’s from the 40th set! My signature pink frosting blue wrapper
cupcake! (Except one where I carved it into a tree) you’ll see.
Here are the 40 Gold I did and tomorrow I will post the 20 greens.”
+ “Here are the 20 Green cards I painted up for the 40th Anniversary
GPK set! I’m so glad I got to do a few more cards for this set!
GPK is one of my all time favorite licenses to work on! Happy hunting!!”
nfcreeps (Creepy Steve) [07/30/2025] —
“Happy GPK 40TH ANNIVERSARY!! I have sketch cards available now
in this release! Go get your Worst or Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary
cards now!!”
andyart.z [07/30/2025] — “GPK
1985-2025. In the past 5 years, I’ve created 752 original works
of art that have been sent out all over the world – a number that’s
hard to believe. Some of them weren’t so great, but I’m proud
of these.” + “40
Years of Garbage. Out today!”
justlyjuju (Julia McKenzie) [07/30/2025]
— “40th Anniversary is officially here! Lets gooo ! Love seeing
everyone’s work on this one .. here are a couple ya gurl did ! Happy
hunting yall!”
eiiiart (Eddie Rhodes) [07/30/2025] —
“I am honored to announce another card set I had the pleasure to
work on. Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary. These are only a few of
the cards I submitted for the set.”
greg13_art (Treize) [07/30/2025] —
“40TH ANNIVERSARY GARBAGE PAIL KIDS! Products are available at
Topps.com 40 years of Gross. I am in the artists team since five years
right now 🙂 Here are my
contributions to the set, total 80 sketch cards. Happy Hunting crazy
collectors!“
neilcamera (FB) [07/30/2025] – “Big
day for Topps GPK fans today! It’s the long-awaited 40th anniversary
release on Topps.com! Here’s some special cards I drew for the occassion.
Not exactly sure what they’re called, but I’m referring to them as ‘creator
cards’. You’ll know them by the rainbow confetti backs.”
anthonypietszak [07/30/2025] — “Sketch
cards I did for 40th anniversary garbage pail kids happy hunting.”
sam.barugh [07/30/2025] — “The
‘Worst’ of GPK 40th Anniversary. Includes
40 hand painted gold border sketch cards celebrating every release from
OS1 to Kids at Play. Tributes to @rory.mcqueen and @bunktom45. A few
new takes.”
brandhen_snyder [07/30/2025] — ”
Garbage pail kids 40th anniversary set releases today. Here’s a
few of the GROSS sketch cards I did for the series.”
crockpotcomics (Steve Crockett) [07/30/2025]
— “Happy 40th to GPK welcome to the old man club. Everything
is gonna start sagging and you will sleep wrong and be sore for days.
Here are the cards I drew in celebration of gpk being so old. Cheer!”
rjtomascikart [07/30/2025] — “Scans
of the 60 cards I completed for the GPK 40th Anniversary set which released
today from @topps. Completed these in late January through early March.”
mikestephensart [07/30/2025] — “Today
the newest set of Garbage Pail Kids releases into the wild (although
already sold out) and celebrates 40 years of gross-out humor and art
that inspired so many to pick up a pencil and start scribbling as kids.
As usual, I see the world through macabre lenses, so here’s my
contribution!”
madmodpoetgod (Terrence) [07/30/2025] —
“Garbage pail kids 40th anniversary is out! This is one of the
sketchcards I did that are randomly put in boxes. It sold out so fast
your head would spin which sucks because I totally missed out but what
cha gonna do. Happy hunting.”
macandtrouble (Rusty Gilligan) [07/30/2025]
— “Cards i did for the new Gpk 40th set.”
niklas_tattoo (Nik Muggli) [07/30/2025]
— “Garbage Pail Kids 40th anniversary dropped today. Here
is a portion of what o did for the release.”
dastickjr.ted [07/30/2025] — “Garbage
Pail Kids 40th Anniversary.”
artistic_pursuit_studio (Marion Carole
Miller) [07/30/2025] — “Excited to be apart of the Garbage
Pail Kids 40th year anniversary series that was released today. I was
in third grade in 1987 when I got my first wax pack. I would beg my
mom to swing by the quick stop every day after school so I could get
a couple packs. I remember them costing only $1 a pack. I’d draw
them on my school folders and on my desk. Never would I imagine I’d
be drawing them for @topps It’s a wonderful feeling having people
excited to pull my cards and having them say they are chasing or on
the hunt for them. It’s a very surreal feeling. Thanks to everyone
for all the kind words and support over this journey. Here’s to
the next 40 years.”
sketchcardsteve (Steven Martin) [07/30/2025]
— “The worst of GPK – 40th anniversary is out today! I contributed
60 sketch card to the series! Happy hunting! Free the sketches!”
damngooddarts (Slippa) [07/30/2025] —
“Its time to share the sketches i did for the 40th Anniversary
of Garbage Pail Kids. In stores
NOW! Good luck finding them!“
stimukill_designes (Jeff Cox) [07/30/2025]
— “In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Garbage Pail
Kids, I had the opportunity to contribute 40 sketch cards. These are
done in brush pen with alcohol markers and colored pencils. Once they
arrived back to Topps, they were inserted randomly into packs and distributed
worldwide. I hope you enjoy, and thank you for looking. Good luck out
there, and please feel free to tag me if you happen to pull one. I always
enjoy finding out where they land. Stay
trashy, kids.“
nfcreeps (Creepy Steve) [07/31/2025] —
“Find my Meltin’ Milton sketch card now in The Worst of Garbage
Pail Kids 40th Anniversary!!! They will be gone fast!!” + “The
Worst of Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary trading cards are officially
released! Please take a look and enjoy the collection of sketch cards
I created for this set. Happy card hunting!”
rich_rios_art [07/31/2025] — “Garbage
Pail kids – 40th Anniversary. Here
are the 40 silver backed sketches I did for this release. I did one
character for each release (some of the themed series did not make the
cut) with a touch of —gpk liquid chrome. Happy hunting.”
darth_maldo (Matt Maldonado) [07/31/2025]
— “Here are my Artist Proof Sketch cards from Garbage Pail
Kids 40th Anniversary! I have all 8 of these for sale, if you’re
interested send me a message! For more of my art follow @darthmaldoart.”
foxlayng [07/31/2025] — “40 Years!
Out in stores now! #garbagepailkids 40th Anniversary set. I
did 60 sketchcards (10 Green/50 Black) for this release and added something
special to commemorate four decades of #GPK being sold and collected
around the world. On a big chunk of my sketches I did “GPK Around
the World” sketches featuring a character in a landmark setting
of a country where GPK has been sold. I even added a little cameo from
local wildlife. I’ll be posting individual cards with info about the
character, the location, and the wildlife over the next few months.
And all of those teachers who banned GPK said it wasn’t educational.
I’d love to hear from all of you collectors in the comments. What country
are you from and when did you first start collecting GPK. Make
sure to follow so you don’t miss a post. Be sure to TAG ME too if you
see a sketch get pulled with the red “Fox” signature. Happy
hunting!”
effin_nerd (Ritchey) [07/31/2025] —
“Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary set is out now. I made 40 sketch
cards for the 40th anniversary. I
tried my best to approach each one differently. Practicing different
styles and mediums to make a cornucopia of complete and utter nonsense.”
ericlassen [07/31/2025] —
“Some of my GPK 40th sketches.”
albino_ryno (Ryan Harris) [08/04/2025]
— “GPK 40th Anniversary is out now!! I contributed 110 sketch
cards for this set. Ahere is a sneak peek at a few of the cards. Happy
hunting everyone!”

ocd_rob199 (Rob Harris) [07/30/2025] —
“Happy 40th anniversary, GPK!!!. Unfortunately, because of other
obligations, I wasn’t able to contribute sketchcards for this set. Even
though I couldn’t officially participate this time around, I decided
to create my own drawing of my favorite character to join in on the
fun and celebrate this amazing milestone! Here’s to many more years
of GPK!”