2022 Topps Chrome Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition Checklist

2022 Topps Chrome Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition is the online-exclusive Sapphire version of 2022 Chrome Garbage Pail Kids Series 5, built on Original Series 5. It was the third GPK Sapphire Edition and the first devoted to a single original series. Although labeled 2022, it went on sale at Topps.com on February 3, 2023, in 32-card boxes, and it added Black Sapphire and Yellow Sapphire parallels to the ladder.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 100 cards numbered 167a to 216b, each number with an A name and a B name. Numbers 167 to 206 carry the Original Series 5 characters; 207 to 216 are the newer characters added in 2022 Chrome Series 5, such as MICK DAGGERS and IRON NAT NERD. The Topps checklist also lists DEE FACED and HANDY RANDY as the puzzle.
• Parallels: Black Sapphire /125, Yellow Sapphire /99, Fuchsia Sapphire /75, Green Sapphire /50, Orange Sapphire /25, Aqua Sapphire /20, Gold Sapphire /15, Purple Sapphire /10, Red Sapphire /5 and Padparadscha Sapphire 1/1, all paralleling the full base set.
• Inserts: none on the Topps checklist.
• Autographs and sketch cards: none on the Topps checklist.

Grading considerations

Match the card number and printed name, as several 207 to 216 characters reuse Original Series 5 names (MICK DAGGER at 167a, MICK DAGGERS at 207a). Aqua is numbered /20 here, not /99 as in the 2021 Sapphire Edition, so check the stamped serial number against the color. Sapphire chromium shows print lines, scratches and fingerprints, and chrome edges and corners chip easily.

Sources and caveats

• Topps: 2022 GPK Sapphire checklist (PDF)
• Topps: 2022 GPK Sapphire product listing

The card list and puzzle follow the Topps checklist, and the parallel ladder, box configuration and on-sale date follow the Topps product listing. An earlier Topps preview gave a January 27, 2023 date and a shorter parallel list; this page follows the product listing. Names are as printed on the checklist; CONDO-MINNIE and MONOP-OLLIE are printed there split across a line ("CONDO- MINNIE", "MONOP- OLLIE"). The checklist does not say which base cards carry the puzzle backs, so none are marked. Pack odds are not listed because Topps did not publish them.

Other Sapphire Edition checklists: 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition, 2023 Chrome Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition and 2024 Chrome Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition.