Chrome Original Series 4

Designated as a 2021 release but delayed until August 2022, Chrome Original Series 4 arrived after a twenty-month gap following the third chrome installment. Topps ran into substantial printing backlogs and paper shortages across its product lines, pushing the release through a succession of tentative calendar dates before cases finally shipped. It became the most heavily produced Chrome release in the brand's history.

Collectors tore through an estimated 1.8 million packs overall, with hobby volume roughly doubling over Chrome 3 to make up more than half the run. While its output did not match the massive run of Book Worms, it stood as the second most widely printed modern Garbage Pail Kids set since 2010. Total base card production reached an estimated 6,343,750 cards, amounting to 63,437 copies of each card.

Card backs marked a return to the classic wanted poster format, with Engstrom commissioned to draw the fresh art on the reverse.

Serial-numbered borders were divided between channels: hobby boxes held exclusive Black Wave cards numbered to 99, Orange Refractors to 75, and Red Refractors to 5, while retail blasters carried exclusive Black borders numbered to 99 and Gold borders with a total production count of 5,000. Beyond those tiers lay elusive C-name variations falling roughly once in every hundred packs, scarce Rose Gold refractors, one-of-one Superfractors, and four printing plates per subject. As with the previous set, the rollout suffered from production hitches such as misspelled names, numbering snags, and blaster packaging that misstated the odds for autographs and printing plates at 1:915.