Gpk Candy & Gum

In the 1980s, a quarter bought a pack of Original Series cards alongside a stick of gum whose distinctive aroma lasted far longer than its fleeting flavor, but the sugary slab routinely risked damaging the cards packed beside it. In 1986, Topps slipped miniature garbage bags of Cheap Toys onto shelves, pairing the figures with a handful of three-quarter-inch Crummy Candy wafers in pink, purple, yellow, and orange that featured character names on one face and the Garbage Pail Kids logo on the reverse. Giant 240-piece bags of Chewy Candies featured sixteen character wrappers across cherry, grape, and strawberry in an Adam Bomb sack with a dripping banner, followed by a Brainy Janey sack that trimmed the selection to two flavors beneath a straight logo.

Plain cellophane wrapping took over when traditional sticks returned inside packs for All New Series 6 and the larger three-inch mega sticks of All New Series 7. In 2012, foil packs of Magnets arrived with four magnets and two wrapped sweets shaped like eyeballs, severed feet, and hearts.