Untold Stories

It was a straight Topps.com sale, priced at $40 a box, and the sale window was only meant to last a week, though the boxes disappeared in a single day. This set celebrates the 35th anniversary of Garbage Pail Kids.

The release came unnumbered. The complete set runs to 102 cards, made up of 7 Cover Story cards, 5 Skateboard Deck cards, and 90 comic cards. Topps also changed the on-demand formula here, because buying one box no longer meant you were done.

The box contents were simple to understand but hard to finish, with each pack giving 24 base cards and one insert from each insert line. The two insert sets were 80’s Style Skateboard Decks and Cover Stories, and the chase added sketches to the mix. There was a 1:2 chance of a sketch with a set purchase, but special sketch boxes were also seeded randomly at a rate of 1 in 100 sets ordered.

The comic material was written by former GPK brand manager Colin Walton, and the artists included Darren Pepe, Chris Meeks, Dan Contois, and Neil Camera, with Pepe and Contois making their GPK card debut. Rory McQueen handled the skateboard decks, while Brent Engstrom and Neil Camera worked on the Cover Stories.