2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Adam-geddon Checklist Offers Little Hope for the Future
It was the best of times. It was the end of times. From the beginning, Garbage Pail Kids have been pressing the proverbial button. Go back to 1985 and even before you saw the first card, there was Adam Bomb blowing his mind. 2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Adam-geddon takes it to another level, imagining the end of the world from a GPK perspective.
And in case you were wondering, it’s also using the theme to get a little political.
Depending on how you prefer to collect, there are a couple of different hobby configurations. Basic 2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 hobby boxes don’t promise any premium inserts. Hobby Collector Edition boxes have both more inserts and one hit per box from a list that includes sketch cards, autographs, patch cards and Printing Plates. They also cost more.
Base Set
The 2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 base set has 180 total cards. That’s 90 different cards, each with two name variations as has been the GPK tradition from the very beginning. All have new artwork. It is broken down into several themed subsets. All are numbered separately so it’s possible there could be some confusion. The set was initially advertised as having 220 cards.
Basic hobby and retail packs each have one Puke parallel. Collector Edition packs all have a Bruised parallel. Other parallels include Spit (/99), Bloody Nose (/75), Fool’s Gold (/50) and Printing Plates. Spit and Bloody Nose are only available in Collector packs.
Expect the base set to make light of all sorts of doom and gloom scenarios and attempt to be the trading card equivalent of a Roland Emmerich disaster film.
Inserts
2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Adam-geddon looks to be light on inserts. Besides parallels, hobby and retail packs have randomly inserted sketch cards but don’t expect them to be easy to pull. On the Collector Edition side, there are two styles of sketch cards. Shaped Sketch Cards are die-cut. Double Artist Panoramic Sketch Cards are double the size and have artwork from two people.
Manufactured patch cards are also exclusive to the Collector Edition. The same is true for Best of the U.S. Presidential Election, which reprint select cards from the previously online-exclusives leading up to the showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Adam-geddon at a glance:
Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Boxes per case: 8
Set size: 220 cards
Release date: January 20, 2017
What to expect in a hobby box:
• Puke Parallels – 24
What to expect in a Hobby Collector Edition box:
• Sketch Cards, Patch Cards, Autographs, Printing Plates – 1 Total
• Bruised Parallels – 24
2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Adam-geddon Checklist
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Base Set
180 cards.
Parallels:
• Puke – 1 per hobby, retail pack
• Bruised – 1 per Hobby Collector pack
• Spit – /99 (Hobby Collector pack only)
• Bloody Nose – /75 (Hobby Collector pack 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
Alien Invasion
1a Skin Walker
1b Disguised Guy
2a Destroying A. Doug
2b Alien Ivan
3a Alien Ian
3b Outer Space Chase
4a Squashed Josh
4b Squoze Rose
5a Independence Dale
5b Inva-Sean
Apocalypse
1a May N. Calendar
1b Enid Date
2a Cultish Carl
2b Kool Aiden
3a Anti-Chris
3b Devilish Damien
4a Predict Ted
4b Right Ryan
5a Nasty Noah
5b Flood Ed
6a Rapture Robert
6b Holy Hollie
7a Four Horse-Manny
7b Apocalyptic Ric
8a Demonic Dante
8b Villainous Virgil
9a Grim Kim
9b Beth Death
10a Dry Guy
10b Famished Mitch
11a Mad Mike
11b War and Warren
12a Virus Iris
12b Plagued Paula
Bio and Tech
1a Rabid Rob
1b Ethan Foam
2a Moe Skeeto
2b Vinnie Virus
3a Barry Bacteria
3b Super Bac-Terry
4a Francis Fungus
4b Monty Mushroom
5a Engineered Eric
5b Man-Made Wade
6a Tyrone Drone
6b Strike Mike
7a Rob Slob
7b Lord of the Frye
8a Acid Rayne
8b Rainy Janie
Dumb Deaths
1a Shane Saw
1b Jesse Juggler
2a Potty Scotty
2b Jerry Bomb
3a Furry Frankie
3b Cosplay Jay
4a Beth Tub
4b Ellie Electro
5a Whipped Kareem
5b Stuffed Stephan
6a Hunt Earl
6b Ivory Hunter
7a Shocked Jacque
7b Ira Socket
8a Pedestr-Ian
8b Obsessed Jess
9a Harriet Headphones
9b Loud Lucy
10a Haddie Hadron
10b Collided Carrie
Monsters
1a Cracked Jack
1b Soft Boiled Sam
2a Fryin’ Ryan
2b Charred Chad
3a Cyber Billy
3b Tommy Tech
4a Dragged To Helen
4b Final Selfie Sophie
5a New Wave Dave
5b Graffiti Petey
Natural Disasters
1a Spitfire Spencer
1b Warming Warren
2a Polar Barry
2b Habit Tate
3a Forrest Fire
3b Sappy Sarah
4a Raina Drought
4b Dee Hydrated
5a Sandy Wich
5b Starvin’ Marvin
6a Cracked Crue
6b Dehydrate Ted
7a Earthquake Jake
7b Tremor Trevor
8a Rick-Ter Scale
8b Quinn Quake
9a Monsoon June
9b Storm Serge
10a Alice Island
10b Liberty Libby
11a Mark Shark
11b Terry Tornado
12a Val Cano
12b Erupt Tina
13a Pompeii Jay
13b Ashy Ashley
14a Nuclear Wynn T.R.
14b Ice Paige
15a Meteor Shower Howard
15b Aster-oid Shower
16a Crashed Ash
16b Dee Impact
17a Haley Comet
17b June Moon
18a Black Joel
18b Hole Noel
Nuclear
1a Grim Jim
1b Scared to Beth
2a Hawkish Hillary
2b Catastrophic Clinton
3a Doomsday Donald
3b Trump Terror
4a Kim Jong Ummm…
4b Dictate Tor
5a Bombs Away T.J.
5b Luke Nuke
6a Adam Splitting
6b Split Spence
7a Too Late Tate
7b Bob Shelter
8a Sunny Bather
8b Louise Lounge
9a Epic Eva
9b April Apocalypse
10a Sunny Glasses
10b Judgement Dale
11a Disintegrate Nate
11b Atomized Alan
12a Sheltered Shelton
12b Tom Bunkered
13a Gus Mask
13b Fallout Boyd
14a Leaky Louis
14b Radia-Shawn
15a Survivin’ Ivan
15b Brock Roach
16a Jed Button
16b Don’t Push Mia
17a Adam Bomb
17b Adam Geddon
18a Arma Gideon
18b Hydrogen Bob
The Plagues
1a Bugsy Buddy
1b Bug Spray Jay
2a Locust Lucas
2b Swarmin’ Norman
3a Buggy Betty
3b Green Jean
4a Ed Lice
4b Bud Sucker
5a Toady Terry
5b Craokin’ Colin
6a Plagued Jade
6b Tongue-Tied Ty
7a Boily Boyde
7b Pus Gus
8a Drippy Dan
8b Leaky Lou
9a Craig Plague
9b Cursed Chris
Pollution
1a Cameron Chemtrail
1b Connor Contrail
2a Overpopulate Ted
2b Noah Room
3a Bye-Bye Bea
3b Noah More
4a Fallout Phil
4b Contami-Nate
5a Newt Clear
5b Nuclear Pow-Earl
Inserts
Artist Autographs
/25
Bathroom Buddies
6 cards.
7a Arnie Tank
7b Shot Watt
8a June Prune
8b Wrinkled Rachel
9a Squatt Scott
9b Henry Helmet
Gross Bears
6 cards.
3 per Retail Value Box
11 Bonkers Bear
12 Spiky Bear
13 Tear Bear
14 Frankenbear
15 B.O. Bear
L3 Burger Bear
Best of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
10 cards.
Exlcusive to Hobby Collector packs.
1a Humpty Donald
1b Trumpty Dumpty
2a Heady Hillary
2b Cunning Clinton
3a Distraught Donald
3b Troubled Trump
4a Hostage Hillary
4b Corrupt Clinton
5a Unbalanced Bernie
5b Screwy Sanders
Classic Armageddon Stickers
20 cards.
1a Dead Ted
1b Jay Decay
2a Adam Bomb
2b Basted Billy
3a Fryin’ Ryan
3b Charred Chad
4a Hot Scott
4b Luke Warm
5a Bad Breath Seth
5b Foul Phil
6a Hot Head Harvey
6b Roy Bot
7a Grim Jim
7b Beth Death
8a Hugh Mungous
8b King-Size Kevin
9a Alien Ian
9b Outerspace Chase
10a Losing Faith
10b Dyin’ Dinah
Patch Cards
20 cards.
Exclusive to Hobby Collector packs.
1a Dead Ted
1b Jay Decay
2a Adam Bomb
2b Basted Billy
3a Fryin’ Ryan
3b Charred Chad
4a Hot Scott
4b Luke Warm
5a Bad Breath Seth
5b Foul Phil
6a Hot Head Harvey
6b Roy Bot
7a Grim Jim
7b Beth Death
8a Hugh Mungous
8b King-Size Kevin
9a Alien Ian
9b Outerspace Chase
10a Losing Faith
10b Dyin’ Dinah
Sketch Cards
Panoramic Sketch Cards
Shaped Sketch Cards
Comments? Questions? Contact Ryan Cracknell on Twitter @tradercracks.
Love you guys! CPK shall never die! Still waiting for a prime time TV series along with The Simpsons, not giving up hope…
I have a signed scetch Donald trump card from garbage pail kids we hate the 80s series but I can’t make out the signature can you tell me its value
@Kelly — Because each sketch card is different, it’s tough to gauge its value.