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PERIOD : 1986 – 1987 The Garbage Pail Kids Chewy Candies were manufactured in late 1986 or early 1987, well after the release of the OS1 and OS2 GPK sets, and also produced in late 1987, after the trademark lawsuit that resulted in the GPK header change for both the franchise and candy wrappers. The confectionary product used characters from the OS1 and OS2 GPK sets as masocts on the candy wrappers. Three assortment of flavors can be found; cherry with a blue & red wrapper, grape with a yellow & purple wrapper, and strawberry with a pink & green wrapper. The images are very similar to the rendered artwork found on the GPK wax wrappers; however, the NPD (New Product Development) department at Topps in the ’80s was responsible for the GPK cards, while the Art Department created the GPK packaging and artwork for licensed products, oftentimes, using in-house art staff or other freelance artists not directly associated with the Garbage Pail Kids franchise. Although artist Tom Bunk worked on the character rendering for the OS1 thru OS16 stated within various eBay auctions by the Topps Co., aka the Topps Vault. The color key was most likely completed by in-house artist Mae Jeon, with the project art directed by Ben Solomon—head of the Topps Art Department at the time—with assistance by Shu Lee and/or Rick Mahig. Five of these B&W rendered artwork pieces can also be found as pink line artwork on the GPK Cheap Toys checklist, however, that particular artwork may have been completed by a different freelance artist and not technically by the same one, except for the Tom Bunk piece. The product was made and produced in Argentina (South America) by the Stani company for the Confex, Inc. company, located in New Jersey and licensed by the Topps company.
Series 1 release displayed the ADAM Bomb character and the straight GPK header on the product bag, that’s also located on the individual candy wrappers, and the ‘Series 2’ release displayed the Brainy JANIE character & the new banner-style GPK header on the product bag, that’s also located on the individual candy wrappers; both wrapper releases being printed with the rarer pink logo but the bag itself having the regular, red GPK logo. There are sixteen characters found for each release for a total of thirty-two different, but not unique, characters. Each full bag contains a 240 count of three candy flavors and random characters for both series. Both releases contain a variation of 48 wrappers each—16 cherry, 16 grape and 16 strawberry—for a total of 96 wrappers. The Series 2 release contains the following wrapper NOTE: |
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MADE
CANDY RELEASE 1 — 1ST SERIES CHARACTERS RAY DECAY 2b, ADAM BOMB 8a, SPACEY STACY 13b, DRESSY JESSE 20b, FAT MATT 26b, JENNY GENIUS 27b, SAVAGE STUART 33b, THIN LYNN 29b CANDY RELEASE 1 —
SERIES 2 RELEASE : BRAINY JANIE : BANNER LOGO CANDY RELEASE 2 — 1ST SERIES CHARACTERS EVIL EDDIE 1b, DRUNK KEN 9b, TEE-VEE STEVIE 10a, ASHCAN ANDY 13a, WEIRD WENDY 16a, BRAINY JANIE 27a, BONY JOANIE 29a, GRAFFITI PETEY 30b, MAD MIKE 33a, ANNA BANANA 34b, ROCKIN’ ROBERT 35b, TOMMY TOMB 36b, SLIMY SAM 38a CANDY RELEASE 2 — 2ND SERIES CHARACTERS RUSSELL MUSCLE 51a, HAIRY GARY 55a, JOLLY ROGER 61a |
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240 pieces of confectionary. * PRODUCTOSSTANI — STANI PRODUCTS Sociedad Anonima Industrial y Commericial — Industrial and Commercial Limited Company An Argentinian corporation founded by the Stanislaysky family. In 1993 the corporation was acquired by Cadbury Schweppes, PLC (U.K.) which renamed its acquisition Cadbury Stani S.A.I.C. The Topps and Stani companies, both family owned enterprises, entered into five written agreements between the years of 1957 & 1985, and renewed through 1996, including preambles, amendments, and restated license agreements, whereby Topps shared its formula, processes & techniques, and allowed Stani exclusive rights to manufacture, sell, and distribute chewing gum under the Topps brands in parts of South America.  
Introductionby Haight (CSH), Senior District Judge: “This case is a tale of two companies, once friends and collaborators, now enemies and scorched-earth litigators; and of chewing gum.” Topps filed a lawsuit against Cadbury Stani on August 31, 2006 stating and alleging that after the 1980 agreement had expired in 1996 that Stani continued to use Topps chewing gum formulas which gave rise to a breach of contract (dismissed) and to claim in tort for the wrongful misappropriation of trade secrets (dismissed except for ‘reverse engineering’). Both parties contended that the contracts were unambiguous but they were interpreted differently. * CONFEX,INC. 167 Avenue at the Common, Shrewsbury, NJ 07702 Per his notice of death, John Francis Sullivan, who died on March 19, 2012 at the age of 87 year old, was at one time the president of Topps Chewing Gum International and the founder of Confex Inc. Sullivan would have used his experience at Topps when he founded Confex, made connections with the already established relationship between Productos Stani and the Topps Chewing Company, and obtained an early license for the Garbage Pail Kids trademark to sell more ‘shocking’ candy to kids, something Topps and other companies had done for years. The company created a line-up of chewy candies after the GPK license that they manufactured with the same design and flavors—strawberry, grape and cherry—with nomenclature for the characters, much like their monster cards of old.
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RELEASE 1 — 1ST SERIES CHARACTERS
RAY DECAY 2b, ADAM BOMB 8a, SPACEY STACY 13b, DRESSY JESSE 20b,
FAT MATT 26b,
JENNY GENIUS 27b, SAVAGE STUART 33b, THIN LYNN 29b
CANDY
RELEASE 1 —
2ND SERIES CHARACTERS
MUGGIN’ MEGAN 42b, ONE-EYED JACK 44b, FRAN FRAN
49b, BRETT SWEAT 51b, BRUTAL
BRAD 55b, BRUTAL BRIDGET 56b, PEGLEG PETER 61b,
CHRIS HISS 62b
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SERIES 1 — RAY Decay, 2b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = 2a Junkfood JOHN    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: The rendered
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SERIES 1 — ADAM Bomb, 8a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = 8b Blasted BILLY    TOM Bunk Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: Therendered artwork captures the feel of the original source, and although the cracked ground does appear on the Chewy Candies bag it is missing from the wrapper artwork. Much like the wax wrappers for the card release, the mushroom cloud has been shaded a darker color to stand out from the white background and the character’s shoes have become yellow, but they’re still white on the Chewy Candies bag. The rendered artwork by artist Tom Bunk was also used for the Cheap Toys checklist artwork, but the dimples got lost in transition, or printing.
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SERIES 1 — Spacey STACY, 13b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 13a Ashcan ANDY, Released in Series 2    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS be the most simplistic, colorwise, for the wrapper artwork, containing only a small amount of green for the garbage bag and blue for the droid body, however, the fine detail makes up for the lack of color variation. The light silver color would not work with the white wrapper background, but looks great with the blue galaxy background of the card worked into the rendering. For the final line artwork and color key chart, the published images had value codes written on the artwork. |
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SERIES 1 — Dressy JESSE, 20b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 20a Swell MEL    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS a spitting image in position and posture to the card image, down to the chest hair. To keep colors to a minimum for the wrapper, the black/darker shoes, white undergarments and pink mirror have become yellow for the ‘Chewy Candy’ artwork. Extremely interesting to have a cross-dresser on a candy wrapper intended for the sale to children. Of course, the vanity table, chair, mirror, extra pair of shoes and closet full of additional, gaudy outfits seen within the card artwork have been removed for the wrapper artwork.
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SERIES 1 — Fat MATT, 26b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 26a Slobby ROBBIE    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS
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SERIES 1 — JENNY Genius, 27b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 27a Brainy JANIE, Released in Series 2 + Bag Mascot    GEORGE Evans Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: for the brainiac of OS1 are pretty spot-on except for the hair is colored yellow to make it pop-out a bit more and the bow and computer changed to red and the keyboard to green. The female character was not only one of the lucky few printed in both releases, but is also the bag mascot for Series 2. The chalkboard has been left out of the wrapper artwork, that further hinted at her Einstein smarts. The text on the computer is also shorter on the wrapper artwork and did not transfer completely over to the later released Cheap Toys candy checklist artwork.
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SERIES 1 — Thin LYNN, 29b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 29a Bony JOANIE, Released in Series 2    GEORGE Evans Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: character is the same bone-for-bone except the neck vertebrae is thicker and less detail in the pelvic region. The bright white diaper color has been changed to yellow to offset the white background of the wrapper, and for similar reasons the bone white skeleton color has been changed to a dead-blue color to pop-out on the wrapper. A bit different than the Imperial ‘pencil case’ skeleton, by a different artist, on a blue background that has been changed to the color grey. Also seen on the Cheap Toys checklist, where the yarn-hair detail was never added. |
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SERIES 1 — Savage STUART, 33b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 33a Mad MIKE, Released in Series 2    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: changed the silver-grey steel color to a blue color for the wrapper artwork, the fur on the one boot becomes yellow and the yellow leopard print becomes an orange color for the wrapper artwork. The detail for this character is quite impeccable, even showing the small scars on the skin, including weapon and belt detail. The card artwork has the head image at more of a head-on position, whereas the wrapper artwork has a slight tilt to the head and an older facial appearance. |
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SERIES 1 — Muggin’ MEGAN, 42b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 42a PATTY Putty    GEORGE Evans Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: released Cheap Toys checklist artwork as well, one of the few Chewy Candy images that made it into the Series 1 toy release. It is unknown if the same artist also completed the one OS3 image for the checklist along with the Series 2 Canadian-only release.
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SERIES 1 — One-Eyed JACK, 44b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 44a SY Clops    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS rendered artwork for the cyclops character remains in the same pose for the wrapper artwork so not entirely sure what the giant is reaching for since the pirates, boat and beach have been removed compared to the final card artwork; looks to be doing stretches while exercising, some toe touches. The white diaper has been changed to green so it’s not lost with the white wrapper background, the sandy brown hair has been changed to a solid redish-orange color, and the reddish-brown eye of the card image has been changed to a bright blue color instead.
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SERIES 1 — FRAN FRAN, 49b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 49a Double HEATHER; Card 49b aka Schizo FRAN    GEORGE Evans Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: for the double-headed character is changed significantly due to the dress pattern and yarn-like hair. The dress has become a solid blue instead of white-checkered with blue lines and the brunette hair has become solid with a brick-reddish color. The pigtail bows have also lost the white and blue color like the dress. Lastly, the white shoes have become yellow due to the white background of the wrapper. The line artwork can also be found on the later released Series 1 Cheap Toys checklist. The candy product was obviously created after the final print run of the OS2 series and name change.
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SERIES 1 — BRETT Sweat, 51b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 51a RUSSELL Muscle, Release in Series 2    GEORGE Evans Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: for the body builder character has a few subtle changes compared to the final card artwork. The weight bar looks to be slightly more curved and colored blue instead of gold and the character’s muscle definition isn’t as defined as the card artwork, leaving out some leg and arm lines and the stomach muscle curvatore line, but otherwise most of the color remains the same. The line artwork can also be found on the later released Series 1 Cheap Toys checklist. |
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SERIES 1 — Brutal BRAD, 55b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 55a Hairy GARY, Released in Series 2    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS
LINE ARTWORK & COLOR KEY: The attention to detail for the wrapper artwork is excellent, Topps demands a good represention and translation for their licensed product. The color values are as follows: skin tone = 15% yellow and 15% red, club = 50% yellow and 50% red (brick reddish color) and the clothing = solid yellow + 50% red for the orange color. The club has been removed from the cavewoman/victim and the color scheme remains relatively the same for both prehistoric characters.
WRAPPER & COLOR KEY: “1986 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Candy Wrapper Line Art. Direct for the legendary Topps Vault comes this wonderful Garbage Pail Kids piece. This lot includes a xerox of the line art upon which a Topps artist indicated the colors for the person at the printer to use for the wrappers final printing. This piece is 4X4 in size and is in excellent condition.” —Topps Vault, August 2018. Note: ‘50% Blue’ hair highlights found on Brutal BRIDGET character only.
LINE ARTWORK & COLOR KEY: The attention to detail for the wrapper artwork is excellent, Topps demands a good represention and translation for their licensed product. The color values are as follows: skin tone = 15% yellow and 15% red, club = 50% yellow and 50% red (brick reddish color), hair = 50% blue, and the clothing = solid yellow + 50% red for the orange color. The club has been removed from the caveman/victim and the color scheme remains relatively the same for both prehistoric characters. Candy SERIES 1 — Brutal BRIDGET, 56b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 56a Hairy CARRIE    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork The rendered artwork for the cavewoman character is extremely detailed compared to the final card artwork. The body hair is only slightly reduced along the arm and stomach area, the treasure path becoming more like a treasure trail. The leopard pattern is greatly reduced considering the smaller scale, so the pattern appears larger on the wrapper artwork. Much like the animal print of OS1, the color has changed from yellow to a brick-reddish color (intended to be orange) for the wrapper artwork along with the club, changing from brown. The knocked-out character’s face isn’t as detailed on the much smaller scale. |
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SERIES 1 — Pegleg PETER, 61b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 61a Jolly ROGER, Released in Series 2    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: artwork for the pirate character, colorwise, is quite different due to the source material of the wrapper and it’s limited amount of color. The breeches, hankerchief, ruffles and hat stayed the same colors and the brick-red of the hooked hand, pegleg and knife changed from brown. Minus the parot’s head plumage, the rest of the bird remained the same color. The major change was the pirate shirt and cross bones & skull both becoming yellow, the one boot and sword becoming blue, and the beard stubble becoming a fully-fledged brick-red beard. |
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SERIES 1 — CHRIS Hiss, 62b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 62a Greaser GREG    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS rendered artwork for the gang member, colorwise, is quite different due to the source material of the wrapper and it’s limited amount of color. The character’s position itself has been rotated so the fighter looks to be coming head-on, whereas on card, the character is coming at you at an angle. The cigarette remains, but the top part of the chain has been removed; the remaining bottom section and knife blade have been changed to the color blue. The black leather jacket is now rain-coat yellow along with most of the All-Star-esque shoes. The T-shirt has become fire-red along with the switchblade handle, and a blue tint added to the hair.
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RELEASE 2 —
1ST SERIES CHARACTERS
EVIL EDDIE 1b,
DRUNK KEN 9b, TEE-VEE STEVIE 10a, ASHCAN ANDY 13a, WEIRD WENDY 16a,
BRAINY
JANIE 27a, BONY JOANIE 29a, GRAFFITI PETEY 30b, MAD MIKE 33a,
ANNA BANANA
34b, ROCKIN’ ROBERT 35b, TOMMY TOMB 36b, SLIMY SAM 38a
CANDY
RELEASE 2 —
2ND SERIES CHARACTERS
RUSSELL
MUSCLE 51a, HAIRY GARY 55a, JOLLY ROGER 61a
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SERIES 2 — Evil EDDIE, 1b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 1a Nasty NICK    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: and Barbie parody victim stay pretty true to their nature. The vampire suit remains black, and along with the dolls solid dark purple dress, the character is somewhat lost; the dress should have been a light violet purple. The infamous GPK bat has been removed, along with the single star and the crescent moon. Even with the smaller medium, Dracula keeps his necklace and the Ken-cheater retains her spectacles. The vimpire teethmark bite and dripping blood did not transfer over very well, however, but this is very minor in the (smaller) scope of things.
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SERIES 2 — Drunk KEN, 9b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 9a Boozin’ BRUCE    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: is slightly downplayed, missing the blue bunny, green snake and the top section of the lamppost. The image remains reversed to match the printed card image with the baby bottle reading ‘LO TOR TUG’ instead of ‘OL ROT GUT’, later corrected for the Abram’s GPK book release and for reprinted card images. Unlike most wrapper images, the white business shirt remains white but the white baby bottle has been changed to a solid color. A great candy character and role model for children!
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SERIES 2 — Tee-Vee STEVIE, 10a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 10b Geeky GARY    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: character looks strangely different considering the, mainly brown, television sets have been changed to a ‘unnatural’ blue color. Plus, two unfinished TV sets remain on either side of the character leaving a ‘floating’ screen as seen within the wrapper, tight line artwork and the xeroxed color rough key. Small detail like the character’s TV antenna and the smiling watch remain intact. Three additional television sets and a camcorder have been removed from the background of the character so he is no longer surrounded, and the face on the screens has been removed.
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SERIES 2 — Ashcan ANDY, 13a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 13b Spacey Stacy, Released in Series 1   GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: colorwise, for the wrapper artwork, containing only a small amount of green for the garbage bag and blue for the droid body, however, the fine detail makes up for the lack of color variation. The light silver color would not work with the white wrapper background, but looks great with the blue galaxy background of the card worked into the rendering. For the final line artwork and color chart, the published images had value codes written on the artwork. |
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SERIES 2 — Weird WENDY, 16a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 16b Haggy MAGGIE    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: witchypoo may be one of the most colorful of the Series 2 wrappers. The light green vapors within the color key rough became dark green for the final wrapper artwork and the light blue skull, previously bone-colored, became a dark blue for the wrapper … whereas the dark blue clothing and bat became almost a dark black color washing them out; surprisingly, the GPK bat makes an appearance but is missing in the ‘Evil EDDIE’ wrapper. Unfortunately, the floating eye(ball)-of-newt also got lost within the wrapper artwork along with the chicken foot.
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SERIES 2 — Brainy JANEY, 27a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 27b JENNY Genius, Released in Series 1  GEORGE Evans Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: of OS1 are pretty spot-on except for the hair colored yellow to make it pop-out a bit more and the bow and computer changed to red and the keyboard to green. The chalkboard has been left out of the wrapper artwork. The text on the computer is also shorter on the wrapper artwork and did not transfer completely over to the Cheap Toys checklist artwork. The character is perhaps one of the only female mascot characters used for main packaging.
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SERIES 2 — Bony JOANIE, 29a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 29b Thin LYNN, Released in Series 1  GEORGE Evans Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: character is the same bone-for-bone except the neck vertebrae is thicker and less detail in the pelvic region. The bright white diaper color has been changed to yellow to offset the white background of the wrapper, and for similar reasons the bone white skeleton color has been changed to a dead-blue color to pop-out on the wrapper. A bit different than the Imperial ‘pencil case’ skeleton, by a different artist, on a blue background that has been changed to the color grey. Also seen on the Cheap Toys checklist, where the yarn-hair detail was never added. |
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SERIES 2 — Graffiti PETEY, 30b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 30a New Wave DAVE    GEORGE Evans Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS:
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SERIES 2 — Mad MIKE, 33a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 33b Savage STUART, Released in Series 1   GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: changed the silver grey steel color to a blue color for the wrapper artwork, the fur on the one boot becomes yellow and the yellow leopard print becomes an orange color for the wrapper artwork. The detail for this character is quite impeccable, even showing the small scars on the skin, including weapon and belt detail. The card artwork has the head image at more of a head-on position, whereas the wrapper artwork has a slight tilt to the head and an older facial appearance. |
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SERIES 2 — ANNA Banana, 34b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 34a KIM Kong    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: the brachiating ape, like the other wrappers in the release, is a spitting, or drooling image of the final artwork and card image. Only half of the branch is used for the wrapper artwork and the character’s head is positioned closer to this limb than what’s found on the original artwork. The hair bow color is rather lost within the wrapper image, but the new, blue baby bottle color does stick out much better. The whole banana, peel and fruit, itself is a solid yellow color that pokes and pops out nicely on the white background of the wrapper.
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SERIES 2 — Rockin’ ROBERT, 35b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 35a Wrinkly RANDY    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: old folker changes slighlty, the character is given a long sleeve shirt instead of the short sleeves as found on the card image. The ‘I WANNA ROCK’ logo is in black text and there are far less old age wrinkles that can be found on the character due to the smaller wrapper artwork format. The patch on the knee is printed in a dark blue rather than purple and the grey cane, to help push since the doll-legs do not reach the ground, is found in the same yellow color as the rocking chair.
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SERIES 2 — TOMMY Tomb, 36b — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 36a Wrappin’ RUTH    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: is practically the same, wrappings and all. The gold sarcophagus has been changed to an dark red-orange for the wrapper artwork with similar blue stripes. The sun-baked brown skin has been changed to a dead-grey color. Considering the character is mostly surrounded by the sarcophagus, the wrappings could remain white without being affected by the white wrapper background. Althought the desert background is absent, the small evil eye symbol is still intact.
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SERIES 2 — Slimy SAM, 38a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 38b Lizard LIZ    GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: lizard person remains a nice solid green color and really pops out on the wrapper. Unfortunately, there are two colors that were either removed or accidentally not included for the red forked tongue and the brown table; most likely an accident since the now white table is totally lost within the white background of the wrapper. The white diaper has also been strangely colored green along with the reptile. The least effective transfer from color rough to wrapper artwork.
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SERIES 2 — RUSSELL Muscle, 51a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 51b BRETT Sweat, Release in Series 1  GEORGE Evans Cheap Toys Checklist & Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: for the body builder character has a few subtle changes compared to the final card artwork. The weight bar looks to be slightly more curved and colored blue instead of gold and the character’s muscle definition isn’t as defined as the card artwork, leaving out some leg and arm lines and the stomach muscle curvatore line, but otherwise most of the color remains the same. The line artwork can also be found on the later released Series 1 Cheap Toys checklist. |
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SERIES 2 — Hairy GARY , 55a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 55b Brutal BRAD, Released in Series 1   GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS
LINE ARTWORK & COLOR KEY: The attention to detail for the wrapper artwork is excellent, Topps demands a good represention and translation for their licensed product. The color values are as follows: skin tone = 15% yellow and 15% red, club = 50% yellow and 50% red (brick reddish color) and the clothing = solid yellow + 50% red for the orange color. The club has been removed from the cavewoman/victim and the color scheme remains relatively the same for both prehistoric characters. |
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SERIES 2 — Jolly ROGER, 61a — 3 Wrapper Variations / 3 Flavours Alt. Split Personality = Card 61b Pegleg PETER, Released in Series 1   GEORGE Evans Wrapper Artwork + JOHN Pound OS2 Card Artwork BITS & BOBS: the pirate character, colorwise, is quite different due to the source material of the wrapper and it’s limited amount of color. The breeches, hankerchief, ruffles and hat stayed the same colors and the brick-red of the hooked hand, pegleg and knife changed from brown. Minus the parot’s head plumage, the rest of the bird remained the same color. The major changed was the pirate shirt and cross bones & skull both becoming yellow, the one boot and sword becoming blue, and the beard stubble becoming a fully-fledged brick-red beard. |
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the thirty-two Series 1 and Series 2 Chewy Candies wrapper mascots printed, twenty-one from the OS1 set and eleven from the OS2 set, twenty-five of the character artwork pieces are unique images, seventeen from OS1 and eight from OS2, which includes character twin nomenclature. However, there were several unpublished OS1 images auctioned off on eBay, via the Topps Vault, that never made it past the tight line and color rough key phase.
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Artwork — Fryin’ BRIAN and Electric BILL, 4a & 4b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork  
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the entire surrounding electrical shock flash has been removed, but the two lonely electric bolts can be found elsewhere on the newly rendered artwork.The light wooden chair, now a brick red color, is missing a middle slab section and the leather belt and silver buckle take on the same color. The four flying sweat beads, down from five, are yellow instead of blue. |
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Artwork — Dead TED and JAY Decay, 5a & 5b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork   
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the walking dead character would have taken on a whole different zombified look with an entire brown deteriorating outfit and pale blue skin and bones. The grey tombstone has been colored green along with the one eyeball iris. The buzzing fly is missing from the rendered artwork along with the extra pile of cemetary dirt surrounding the character, not to mention the huge moon. |
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OS1
Artwork — ART Apart and Busted BOB, 6a & 6b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork  
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the separated-at-birth doorstopper character has a lighter skin tone color and a missing belly button. The limb sockets are now black holes instead of stuffed with white cotton and the truncated door is now solid blue for the rendered artwork. The dirty dishwater blond hair is now a brilliant yellow and the background lightsocket is missing. |
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OS1
Artwork — ADAM Bomb and Blasted BILLY, 8a & 8b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork 
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the slightly donut-shaped mushroom cloud would have been a vibrant orange and red color instead of blue, the tie would have contained stripes as the card artwork and the detonator (red color) and shoes (yellow color) could always be colored in at a later date much like the yellow shoes of the Chewy Candy wrapper artwork. Slightly older look and feel to the face.
ADAM Bomb character is the only artwork for the Chewy Candies release rendered by a different artist. Rendered artwork had already been created for the card wrapper by artist Tom Bunk and chosen over the new artwork. Additional information found within the published section. Above is a comparison between Bunk’s previously published artwork and unreleased tight line artwork by Evans. |
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OS1
Artwork — Itchy RICHIE and Bugged BERT, 11a & 11b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork  
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the discarded and bugged infested doll doesn’t have his head split open at the top with bugs crawling out, more like a forehead buttchin. Although the image does contain the jumping bed bugs, the jumping movement lines are missing. The spiderweb is still intact but greatly reduced and lowered, not as detailed and of course there are a lot less bugs. |
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OS1
Artwork — Wacky JACKIE and Loony LENNY, 17a & 17b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork  
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the straightjacket, seemingly, would have remained white, unlike most rendered artwork where most white objects are changed due to the nature of the white background of the candy wrapper. The pink padded walls and floor are of course missing and the blue pajamas have become green with red stars; most likely would’ve been printed too dark and difficult to see the detail. |
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OS1
Artwork — Corroded CARL and Crater CHRIS, 19a & 19b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork 
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the pimple-popping, pus-infused character the skin tone wouldn’ve remained relatively the same and the purple shorts and suspenders as well, making it one of the easiest color transitions. The acne lotion was changed to a blue bottle from the color green and the bandaid switched to a white color. Strangely, it is unknown if the same artist took over for the color mock-up, but the artwork is entirely different: the popped zit was reduced in size, the gyser is spurting rather than ooze gushing, the fingers are completey re-positioned, the bandaid moved, the mouth is off-center, and the ‘ZIT GOO’ cap is missing. The color rough key image would’ve been printed and is obviously not a xeroxed copy but new tight line artwork.
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OS1
Artwork — Junky JEFF and Stinky STAN, 22a & 22b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork  
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the self-recycling refuse container character that doesn’t refuse trash of any type is a nice colorful artwork rendering. Most of the dark green and brown splotches have become more yellow to green in color. The fish head changed to green, the eyes to blue and the grey trash can to a light blue. Two additional garbage cans are missing from the image along with the full moon and electric pole. |
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OS1
Artwork — Run Down RHODA and Flat PAT, 31a & 31b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork  
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the roadkill character may be the most straightforward rendition from card image to wrapper color, down to the pink gum and pink stripes on the CPK-esque shoes. The steamroller has been cropped down to basically just the large back roller ‘wheel’ and the street contains two line dashes rather than three. Freshly paved and pressed. |
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OS1
Artwork — Frigid Bridget and Chilly MILLIE, 32a & 32b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork  
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the character and coloring as a whole is pretty solid. The ice pick is missing from the image, but also the character’s right pigtail and pink bow which is now covered by ice, as well as part of the character’s right leg that should be colored purple and not blue (for the ice); making the legs look awkward. You’re not able to see the character’s left arm through the ice either. |
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OS1
Artwork — GuilloTINA and CINDY Lopper, 37a & 37b, Respectively GEORGE Evans Tight Line Artwork & Colorization + JOHN Pound OS1 Card Artwork   
BITS & BOBS: Forthe unreleased image, the color for the character’s dress was drastically changed for the rendered artwork and color key mock-up to the color blue so it would ‘pop’ off the wrapper better. The red hair and green eyes remain the same, but the cold hard grey slab holding the guillotine and head basket has been turned and colored into wood. The detail to the woodgrain and basking weave is very impressive, and possibly too detailed for a candy wrapper. |
THE
CHEWY CANDY EDITION
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CHEWY
CANDIES — SERIES 1 — CHERRY, GRAPE + STRAWBERRY VARIATIONS |
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#
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WRAPPER
CHAR. + SERIES |
GPK
LOGO |
RENDERED
ARTWORK |
ORGINAL
CARD + ARTIST |
| 01 |
RAY DECAY
: OS1 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
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2b : JOHN Pound
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| 02 |
ADAM BOMB
: OS1 : BAG CHAR. |
STRAIGHT
|
TOM Bunk
|
8a : JOHN Pound
|
| 03 |
SPACEY STACY
: OS1 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
13b : JOHN Pound
|
| 04 |
DRESSY JESSE
: OS1 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
20b : JOHN Pound
|
| 05 |
FAT MATT
: OS1 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
26b : JOHN Pound
|
| 06 |
JENNY GENIUS
: OS1 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
27b : JOHN Pound
|
| 07 |
THIN LYNN
: OS1 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
29b : JOHN Pound
|
| 08 |
SAVAGE STUART
: OS1 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
33b : JOHN Pound
|
| 09 |
MUGGIN’ MEGAN
: OS2 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
42b : JOHN Pound
|
| 10 |
ONE-EYED JACK
: OS2 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
44b : JOHN Pound
|
| 11 |
FRAN FRAN
: OS2 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
49b : JOHN Pound
|
| 12 |
BRETT SWEAT
: OS2 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
51b : JOHN Pound
|
| 13 |
BRUTAL BRAD
: OS2 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
55b : JOHN Pound
|
| 14 |
BRUTAL BRIDGETTE
: OS2 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
56b : JOHN Pound
|
| 15 |
PEGLEG PETER
: OS2 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
61b : JOHN Pound
|
| 16 |
CHRIS HISS
: OS2 |
STRAIGHT
|
GEORGE Evans
|
62b : JOHN Pound
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CHEWY
CANDIES — SERIES 2 — CHERRY, GRAPE + STRAWBERRY VARIATIONS |
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#
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WRAPPER
CHAR. + SERIES |
GPK
LOGO |
RENDERED
ARTWORK |
ORGINAL
CARD + ARTIST |
| 01 |
EVIL EDDIE
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
1b : JOHN Pound
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| 02 |
DRUNK KEN
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
9b : JOHN Pound
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| 03 |
TEE-VEE STEVIE
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
10a : JOHN Pound
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| 04 |
ASHCAN ANDY
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
13a : JOHN Pound
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| 05 |
WEIRD WENDY
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
16a : JOHN Pound
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| 06 |
BRAINY JANIE
: OS1 : BAG CHAR. |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
27a : JOHN Pound
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| 07 |
BONY JOANIE
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
29a : JOHN Pound
|
| 08 |
GRAFITTI PETEY
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
30b : JOHN Pound
|
| 09 |
MAD MIKE
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
33a : JOHN Pound
|
| 10 |
ANNA BANANA
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
34b : JOHN Pound
|
| 11 |
ROCKIN’ ROBERT
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
35b : JOHN Pound
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| 12 |
TOMMY TOMB
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
36b : JOHN Pound
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| 13 |
SLIMY SAM
: OS1 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
38a : JOHN Pound
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| 14 |
RUSSELL MUSCLE
: OS2 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
51a : JOHN Pound
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| 15 |
HAIRY GARY
: OS2 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
|
55a : JOHN Pound
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| 16 |
JOLLY ROGER
: OS2 |
BANNER
|
GEORGE Evans
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61a : JOHN Pound
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