All-New Series 5

When Topps released All-New Series 5 in April 2006, the set featured artwork from veteran franchise artists alongside newer contributors. Jay Lynch handled the gag naming panels across the entire series, while the card fronts paired seasoned veterans like John Pound, Tom Bunk, and James Warhola with a younger generation of illustrators. Alongside Engstrom, painters such as Luis Diaz, John Cebollero, Layron DeJarnette, and David Gross helped populate an eighty-card base set featuring characters like Vincent Van Gross, Demonic Danielle, and Asteroid Anthony.

Foil packs carried a suggested retail price of 99 cents for six stickers, housed in wrappers that preserved the traditional "GROSS STICKERS" title banner even though promotional materials promoted the release with the phrase "SUPER-GROSS STICKERS". Standard retail and hobby boxes each held thirty-six packs, but hobby boxes stood apart by including an exclusive box-topper display poster. Beyond the standard cartons, collectors could purchase blister-pack boxes holding twenty four-pack blisters plus one bonus card, or pick up retail bonus boxes containing eleven packs. These special retail formats were the exclusive home to five bonus cards, created from six finished pieces of artwork that had initially been intended for the base set.

With thirty chase cards joining the eighty base stickers, the complete release totaled one hundred and ten cards. Justin Green rendered fifteen Alphabet Stickers from gag concepts pitched by Lynch and Zapata, seeded at odds of one in every two packs during the initial print run. An official promo card was released at the August 2005 San Diego Comic Convention, making this only the second American set in the brand's run to receive one.

Card backs offered their own mix of past formats, assembling a twenty-piece puzzle back alongside GPK Comics and returning staples like "PUZZLE PUKE" and "Would We Lie To You?", as well as the brand's second series checklist, which varied its font sizes across words and titles. The paintings also made this the sixteenth set to tuck the letters GPK into the background scenery, and several illustrators added personalized touches of their own. Luis Diaz hid his initials alongside his LD Monster figure across multiple paintings, and his art on cards 2 and 11 incorporated die-cut sticker images as a deliberate nod to vintage releases. Tom Bunk tucked his autograph alongside the name Aaron Booton onto Pete Heat, while card 40a, Chopper-Chopped Chris, set a mark of its own by carrying a nineteen-letter, twenty-character moniker, the longest name in the set. An accidental post-production tweak by Topps even left Turntable Tim and Dee-Jay Jason with a completely transparent name header, marking the first see-through title banner in Garbage Pail Kids history.