Art By John Pound

Art By John Pound sits in the special-product corner of the Garbage Pail Kids run, and in 2019 it turned a hobbyDB and GeePeeKay partnership into a small licensed tribute built around John Pound’s early look for the line. It was made to celebrate a new archive, but it also served as hobbyDB’s first officially licensed Topps product.

The set was sold as sticker cards through the hobbyDB Marketplace, with one card released each week from April 17 through May 22, 2019. Buyers had to complete a site task before they were allowed to purchase that week’s card, starting with registering on hobbyDB for the first release, and each user was limited to one. The cards were offered until they sold out, and the six-card set ranged in price from $7.99 to $14.99.

Collectors could buy a six-sticker set of brand new, officially licensed Garbage Pail Kids material. The first card featured Adam Bomb concept art by John Pound, and the cards were issued as White Border, Bruised, Bloody Nose, Phlegm, silver bordered, and Gold Border parallels. Each weekly card came with a shrinking print run, starting at 1,000 for the white border version and stepping down through 400, 300, 200, 100, and finally 50 for the gold border release.

One new card was released each week, and the first card was not numbered, but all subsequent cards were limited and numbered on their backs. The listed parallels are White Border, Bruised, Bloody Nose, Phlegm, silver bordered, and Gold Border, and the print run changes across the six releases define the set.