2020 Topps Garbage Pail Kids 35 Years of Untold Stories Checklist

2020 Topps Garbage Pail Kids 35 Years of Untold Stories is Topps On Demand #10, an online exclusive for the GPK 35th anniversary. It tells comic-style stories about seven classic characters, sketched and coloured by GPK sketch artists. Topps put it on sale at topps.com on 29 June 2020 for one week or until sold out, and printed 2,015 packs. Each pack held 26 stickers: 24 story cards, one Story Cover and one 80s Style Skateboard sticker, with sketch cards 1 in 2 and painted sketch boxes 1 in 100. Unlike earlier On-Demand sets, one pack is not a complete set.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 90 comic story cards in seven stories: Adam Bomb (1–9, Darrin Pepe), Nasty Nick (10–27, Chris Meeks), Ailin' Al (28–36, Daniel Contois), Slobby Robbie (37–45, Darrin Pepe), Wrinkled Randy (46–63, Chris Meeks), Virus Iris (64–72, Neil Camera) and New Wave Dave (73–90, Neil Camera). The cards carry no printed number; the numbers here are the reading order used by collector checklists
• Parallels: none
• Inserts: 7 Cover Story stickers, one for each story, and 5 80s Style Skateboard Deck stickers; one of each per pack
• Sketch cards: hand-drawn sketch cards, about 1 in 2 packs, listed by 15 artists. Topps also inserted painted sketch boxes (1 in 100) by Jasmine Contois, GPK Nik, Robert Jimenez, Neil Camera and Joey Fitchett; the boxes are not cards and are not listed

Grading considerations

With no printed numbers, identify a story card by its character and its panel in the story. The backs of each run of nine cards form a puzzle of a cover image or a 35th anniversary logo, which helps place a card in the sequence. GPK stickers are prone to off-center cuts and corner dings, so check centering, corners, edges and the sticker surface. See our pricing.

Sources and caveats

• Topps: 2020 Topps On Demand #10 Garbage Pail Kids: 35 Years of Untold Stories

The Topps listing gives the pack contents, the seven stories and their artists, the sketch box artists and the print run. Its date fields contradict each other (available from 2 July 2020, available until 30 June 2020), so the release date here is the 29 June 2020 launch reported by secondary checklists. The card numbering, cover and skateboard subjects and sketch artist list come from secondary checklists that agree with each other. Topps' listing spells two characters "Alin Al" and "Slobbie Robbie"; the checklists use AILIN' AL and SLOBBY ROBBIE. Four more sketch artists named by only one checklist are not listed.