2018 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Memes Checklist

2018 Garbage Pail Kids Memes was a Topps.com online exclusive, sold as 2018 Topps On-Demand Set #9, with Original Series characters acting out popular internet memes. It went on sale on 27 September 2018 for a seven-day window, to 4 October 2018, and sold out early; the reported print run is 500 sets. Each set held the 20 A and B name stickers, one C name, one Pink Border and three Green Border parallels, with a sketch card in about one set in two. The art is by Brent Engstrom, David Gross, Joe Simko, Smokin' Joe McWilliams and Neil Camera, two subjects each.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 20 stickers, 10 subjects with A and B names, numbered 1a to 10b
• Parallels: Green Border (three per set) and Pink Border (one per set), not serial numbered
• Inserts: C Names 1c to 10c, a third name for each subject, one per set
• Sketch cards: about one in two sets, by the five base-set artists, listed by artist

Grading considerations

The A, B and C names share the same art and the fronts carry no card number, so identify each card by the printed name, then by border colour for the Green and Pink parallels. The sketch cards were drawn on the same blank stock as the 2018 Oh, the Horror-ible! retail sketch cards, so confirm the artist and set from the card itself. Check centering, corners and edges, and inspect the surface under angled light.

Sources and caveats

Topps' original product listing is no longer online and no Topps checklist PDF was found, so this checklist was assembled from secondary checklists and published card images, cross-checked against each other. Names are as printed on the cards, which differ in places from secondary lists: ROCKING ROBERT (8b), HARD TO SEYMORE (8c), SUCCESS LESS (6c), SINISTER SAM (10c) and WRAPPIN RUTH (9a, no apostrophe). Because the fronts are unnumbered, card numbers follow the secondary checklists, including KIM KONG as 7a and ANNA BANANA as 7b. The print run counts sets sold, not serial numbers.