2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Battle of the Bands Checklist and Details
2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Battle of the Bands sets its sights on a half-century of popular music. The release focuses on singers and bands current and from the past.
As has been the case for the past couple of years, it comes with a couple of different hobby configuration types. One is straightforward in its approach and costs less. The other has more inserts and premium potential, but it’s also more expensive.
Base Set
A total of 180 cards make up the 2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Battle of the Bands checklist. This includes the traditional A/B name variations for 90 different gags, all with new art.
The checklist is broken up into several genre-specific subsets.
Each regular hobby pack comes with a Puke parallel. Parallels exclusive to the premium Hobby Collector packs are Bruised (one per pack), Spit (/99) and Bloody Nose (/75). Fool’s Gold (/50) are in both pack types. Printing Plates are also available.
Inserts
2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Series 2 is light on regular inserts. GPK Album Covers, which are only in Hobby Collector Packs, take iconic record art and twist it.
Premium Inserts
The cheaper, basic hobby boxes don’t have any guarantees when it comes to fancier, higher-end inserts. Hobby Collector boxes come with one. These range from Artist Autographs to sketch cards to exclusive Patch Cards.
Besides regular sketch cards, there are Shaped and Dual Artist Panoramic versions. These can only be found in Hobby Collector packs.
Garbage Pail Kids are no strangers to the music scene. Over the past couple of years, there have been a handful of online-exclusive mini sets for things like the Grammys and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Battle of the Bands trading cards at a glance:
Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Boxes per case: 8
Set size: 180 cards
Release date: October 18, 2017
What to expect in a hobby box:
• Puke Parallels – 24
What to expect in a Hobby Collector box:
• Bruised Parallels – 24
• Autographs, Sketch Cards, Patch Cards or Printing Plates – 1
2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Battle of the Bands Checklist
Base
Base Set Checklist
180 cards cards.
Subsets are numbered individually.
Parallels:
• Puke – 1 per Hobby, Retail pack
• Bruised – 1 per Hobby Collector pack
• Spit – /99 (Hobby Collector only)
• Bloody Nose – /75 (Hobby Collector only)
• Fool’s Gold – /50
• Printing Plates Black – 1/1
• Printing Plates Cyan – 1/1
• Printing Plates Magenta – 1/1
• Printing Plates Yellow – 1/1
Alternative
1a Rip Van Michael
2a Crashing Kim
3a In Control Curt
4a Thurston Morgue
5a Canned Kurt
6a Bashing Billy
7a Flaming Liam
8a Raw Rivers
9a OK Gordon
10a Dragon Dan
1b Sleeping Stipe
2b Fouled Frank
3b Pete Puppets
4b Sonic Senior Steve
5b Dirty Dave
6b Cracking Corgan
7b Weird Wayne
8b Uncooked Cuomo
9b Harry It Goes Again
10b Imaginative Ira
Classic Rock
1a Johnny Crash
2a Beached Brian
3a Lonely Lennon
4a Mick Lick
5a Mod Rodge
6a For the Boys
7a Jammed Jim
8a Grateful Ted
9a Glowin’ Jimi
10a Rowdy Rodger
11a Pierced Pete
12a Burrito Grande Gram
13a Freaky Frank
14a Fenced Floyd
15a Insane Ian
16a Elaborate Elton
17a Jeff’s Journey
18a Glass Fracturin’ Freddie
19a Bearded Billy
20a Clawed Cougar
1b Ringo of Fire
2b Waves Wilson
3b Palpitating Paul
4b Jacked Up Jagger
5b Targeted Townshend
6b Rancid Roger
7b Slammed Dory
8b Bear Attack Bob
9b Heating Hendrix
10b Daft Daltry
11b Tortured Townshend
12b Cooked Chris
13b Yellow Snow Joe
14b Bricked Nick
15b Adenoids Anderson
16b Rocket Manny
17b Lift Off Lynn
18b Bursting Brian
19b Frank Beardless
20b Mauled Mellencamp
Hard Rock
1a Lead Zep
2a Bashed Buck
3a Asphyxiated Alice
4a Motor Ed
5a Aching Angus
6a Swallowing Steven
7a Dueling David
8a Burned Brett
9a Joyless Jon
1b Ridiculous Icarus
2b Demolished Dharma
3b Choking Cooper
4b Lumpy Lemmy
5b Ballbreak Earl
6b Big Trap Tyler
7b Sammy Hater
8b Mutilated Michaels
9b Bad Name Bon
Metal
1a Oozing Ozzy
2a Met Al
3a Mega Seth
4a Nine Inch Neil
5a Zombie Robbie
6a Marilyn Oh No
7a I. Ron Maiden
8a Andy Thrax
9a Phantom Forge
10a Masto Don
1b Jack Sabbath
2b Aster of Puppets
3b Rattle Ed
4b Tacked Trent
5b Hot Rob
6b “Handsome” Manson
7b Iron Irene
8b Hurt Ian
9b Ghostly Goore
10b Beassty Brent
New Wave and Punk
1a Are We Not Manny?
2a Sinking Sting
3a Bea Hive
4a Debbie Scary
5a Stung Sting
6a TV Tom
7a Ruined Ramone
8a Safety Pin Sid
9a Misfit Manny
10a Green Dave
1b Dee Vo
2b Sunk Stewart
3b Love Shack Cindy
4b Heartless Harry
5b Stinging Sumner
6b Insane Verlaine
7b Graffitti Dee Dee
8b Pierced Paul
9b Ghost Glenn
10b Barfin’ Billie
Pop
1a Monarch Michael
2a Magic Michael
3a Hairy Barry
4a Mournful Michael
5a Disjointed Joel
6a Daft Paul
7a Ted Mouse
8a Unabashed Blake
9a Fall Out Boyd
10a Can’t See Sia
11a Messy Miley
12a Torturing Taylor
13a Ed Sheerin’
14a Krazy Katy
15a Harry Style
16a Kooky Kesha
17a Gasp-Inducing Gaga
18a Awful Ariana
19a Unruli Charli
20a Rory Rags
21a Twenty One Tyler
1b King of Plop
2b Jack Sen-Sational
3b Gross Gibb
4b Melancholy McDonald
5b Piano Manny
6b Daryl Punk
7b Dead D. Jay
8b Gross Gwen
9b Plutonium Patrick
10b Furry Furler
11b Coughed-Up Cyrus
12b Swift Break-Up
13b Red Sheeran
14b Scary Perry
15b Juan Direction
16b Retchin’ Rose
17b Bachelor Bennett
18b Grande Latte
19b Acting Up Aitchison
20b Bone Manny
21b Jockeyed Josh
Rap and R&B
1a Deafening Darryl
2a Flava Dave
3a Beastie Boyd
4a Vile Jay
5a Pit Bill
6a Diane Woord
7a Multiple Marlon
8a Purple Prince
9a Rainy Rihanna
10a Bruno Martian
1b Sonorous Simmons
2b Stuck Chuck
3b Mixed-Up Mike
4b Stinky Shaggy
5b Puppy Perez
6b Nin-John
7b Conjoined Jermaine
8b Rainy Rogers
9b R&B Robyn
10b Mars Attacks
Inserts
2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Battle of the Bands Inserts Checklists
Artist Autographs
List TBA.
Bathroom Buddies
6 cards.
10a Di-Ving
11a Leon Tamer
12a Karate Chip
10b Adele T. Swim
11b Potty Trey N.
12b Hit the Head Harold
Classic Rock Stickers
20 cards.
1a Jolted Joel
2a Blake Flake
3a Rocky N. Roll
4a Hip Kip
5a Horny Hal
6a Windy Winston
7a Cracked Crystal
8a Heavy Meryl
9a Barf Band Ben
10a Violent Viola
1b Live Mike
2b Hippie Skippy
3b Les Vegas
4b Walt Witless
5b Rudy Toot
6b Johnny One-Note
7b Shrill Jill
8b One-Night Stan
9b Off-Key Lee
10b Sawin’ Susan
GPK Album Covers and Posters
10 cards.
1 Meat Ball FAT OUT OF HELL
2 OH-NO’S Beasts and the Beat
3 Bruce Splitjean’s TORN IN THE U.S.A.
4 HV/AC WRONG VOLTAGE
5 Nerdvana NERDYMIND
6 Rusha 2017
7 UG WART
8 The Recent Squirts Stinky Diapers
9 THE P1 BANANA & P2 Amy Bearhol
10 SPILLIN’ poster
Gross Bears
6 cards.
3 per retail blaster.
16 Gobear
17 Lousy Bear
18 Cyclops Bear
19 Scar Bear
20 Punk Bear
L4 Not-All-There Bear
Patch Cards
20 cards.
Hobby Collector packs only.
1a Jolted Joel
2a Blake Flake
3a Rocky N. Roll
4a Hip Kip
5a Horny Hal
6a Windy Winston
7a Cracked Crystal
8a Heavy Meryl
9a Barf Band Ben
10a Violent Viola
1b Live Mike
2b Hippie Skippy
3b Les Vegas
4b Walt Witless
5b Rudy Toot
6b Johnny One-Note
7b Shrill Jill
8b One-Night Stan
9b Off-Key Lee
10b Sawin’ Susan
Sketch Cards
2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Battle of the Bands Sketch Cards Checklists
Artists lists have not been released.
Sketch Cards
Retail and Hobby Boxes only.
Dual Artist Panoramic Sketch Cards
Hobby Collector boxes only.
Loaded Puzzle Sketch Cards
Retail Blaster Boxes only.
Panoramic Sketch Cards
Retail Fat Packs only.
Shaped Sketch Cards
Hobby Collector boxes only.
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