2022 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Book Worms Checklist

2022 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Book Worms is the first Garbage Pail Kids series of 2022 and the first retail GPK series since 2021's Food Fight. Its all-new art parodies books, comics, poems and other literature, from Winnie the Pooper to Gandalf the Grave. It was released on July 27, 2022.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 200 sticker cards, 100 subjects with A and B names, numbered 1a to 100b
• Parallels: Booger Green (retail and hobby display), Inkwell Black (Hobby Collector), Moby Dick Grey /199, Sleep Drool Blue /99 (display boxes), Red Herring Red /75 (Hobby Collector), Fool's Gold /50 and four Printing Plates /1
• Inserts: Authors of Their Own Misfortune by Tom Bunk (10, display boxes), Book Marked! (5, Hobby Collector), Wacky Package Prose (8, Hobby Collector) and Gross Adaptations (25, Walmart Mega Boxes)
• Patches: 10 GPK Patch Cards numbered to 199, with Blue /99, Red /75, Gold /50 and FoilFractor 1/1 parallels, plus 6 GPK Iron-On Patches, one per Hobby Collector box
• Autographs: on-card artist autograph parallels of all 100 base subjects

Key characters

The base set opens with Ambushed Art, Paige Holder and Myopic Mya, and parodies range from Retching Romeo and Hexing Hermione to Loren of the Rings and Wimpy Kitt. The patch cards bring back Nasty Nick, Evil Eddie and Sy Clops, and Authors of Their Own Misfortune turns writers such as Shakespeare and Tolkien into Garbage Pail Kids.

Grading considerations

Check the printed number and name: every base number has an A and a B name. The numbered Fool's Gold /50, Red Herring Red /75, Sleep Drool Blue /99 and Moby Dick Grey /199 parallels, the autographs and the numbered patch cards are among the cards collectors most often grade. GPK stickers are prone to off-center cuts and corner wear, and the patch cards are thicker than the base.

Sources and caveats

• Topps: 2022 Garbage Pail Kids Book Worms checklist (PDF)

The Topps checklist lists only the A names of the base set, so the B names come from secondary checklists. The Iron-On Patches are not on the Topps checklist either and are listed without numbers. Parallels and pack exclusivity come from the Topps sell sheets. The Glue Yellow parallel and GPK Gets Graphic inserts announced for retail value boxes are not listed, because those boxes were cancelled. Topps did not publish a sketch artist list for this set, so no sketch cards are listed.