2018 Topps Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the '80s Checklist

2018 Topps Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the '80s turns the Garbage Pail Kids on the decade they were born in, with all-new art parodying '80s toys, cartoons, video games, TV, movies, celebrities, fashion, culture and history, plus a subset based on the sitcom The Goldbergs. It was the first GPK series of 2018 and was released on 17 January 2018.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 180 sticker cards, 90 subjects with A and B names, numbered separately within ten themes of 9 subjects each: '80s Toys, Cartoons, Video Games, TV Shows & Ads, Movies, Celebrities, Fashions & Fads, Culture, History and Sitcom
• Parallels: Puke (retail and hobby display packs), Phlegm (retail gravity feed), Bruised, Spit /99 and Bloody Nose /75 (Hobby Collector), Fool's Gold /50 and four Printing Plates /1
• Inserts: Classic '80s Stickers (20, retail fat packs), '80s Wax Pack Parodies (10, Hobby Collector), Gross Bears (8, value boxes) and Bathroom Buddies (6, value boxes)
• Patches: 20 patch cards of the Classic '80s Stickers characters
• Autographs: '80s Sitcom autographs signed by eight cast members of The Goldbergs and its creator, Adam F. Goldberg
• Sketch cards and artist autographs: standard, shaped, panoramic, double-artist panoramic and loaded puzzle sketch cards plus base sticker artist autographs exist, but Topps published no artist roster, so they are not listed

Key characters

'80s Cartoons opens with He-Manny and Skele-Tor, '80s Video Games with Centi-Pete and Ar-Cade, and '80s History with Burl N. Wall. The '80s Sitcom theme is built around the Goldberg family, from A.V. Adam to Mid-Range Mellor. The Classic '80s Stickers include New Wave Dave, Reuben Cube and Catty Kathy.

Grading considerations

Match the theme as well as the number: every theme restarts at 1a, so '80s Toys 1a and '80s Sitcom 1a are different cards. Fool's Gold /50, Bloody Nose /75 and Spit /99 parallels, the autographs and the patch cards are among the cards collectors most often grade. GPK stickers are prone to off-center cuts and corner dings, and the patch cards are thicker than the base. See our pricing.

Sources and caveats

Base, insert, patch and Sitcom autograph names follow the checklist Topps issued in January 2018. Topps did not publish a list of sketch artists or of the artists who signed base stickers, so neither is listed. The Phlegm parallel and the Bathroom Buddies pack assignment are not on the Topps sell sheets; they come from secondary checklists. Pack assignments elsewhere follow the Topps sell sheets, which were issued before release and were subject to change.