2013 Mini Cards

Arriving in November 2013 as an online release sold directly through Topps, the 2013 Mini Cards shrank the contemporary revival into a distinct, compact format measuring approximately two and a quarter by three and an eighth inches. Rather than traditional peelable sticker stock, the release consisted of actual cardboard cards, gathering artwork from the modern era while leaving the adhesive backing behind. Spanning card numbers 1a through 198b, the checklist brought together 396 cards in total, making it the largest base set Garbage Pail Kids had ever fielded. It gave collectors another look at recent characters such as NATE Inflate, Balloony BART, and STEVE Rotters, gathered across a single unified run.

The physical release arrived in boxes of twenty-four packs, holding eight cards apiece and packed sixteen boxes to a case. Assembling a complete run from a single box was impossible. While 388 of those cards reprinted the material across Brand-New Series 1, Brand-New Series 2, and Brand-New Series 3, the set also introduced eight exclusive cards based on four new paintings, with work contributed by Mark Pingitore, David Gross, and Joe Simko. The checklist included no card variations.

In addition to the base cards, packs included colored border parallels and several rare inserts. Black-bordered parallels appeared at a rate of one per pack, while scarcer Gold borders turned up once every twenty-four packs. Topps also seeded artist autographs onto the checklist at odds of one in forty-eight packs, using clear stickers signed by the artists and stuck to the cards, with each autographed subject limited to five copies. Printing plates matched those autograph odds at one in forty-eight packs, but the rarest pull of the release belonged to the sketch cards, which landed at a distant one in 253 packs. In all, the release delivered the brand's largest base checklist entirely in miniature format.