2023 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day is Canceled! Checklist

2023 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day is Canceled! is the Valentine's Day Garbage Pail Kids set Topps sold only on topps.com, from 9 February 2023. Topps lists 28 sticker cards plus a foil card or a sketch card per box, including the full 20-card base set, three Red Hearts, one Black Heart, two Dating Profiles and one C Name. Most boxes feature MICK Dagger; a short-printed pink box featuring Lovely LEA turns up in about 1 in 10. Topps gave no sale window or print run for this set.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 20 sticker cards, 10 subjects with A and B names (1a to 10b)
• Parallels: Red Hearts (three per box), Black Hearts (one per box), Gold Foil Border /50 and Rainbow Foil /25
• Inserts: C Names (10, one per box), a third name for each subject; Dating Profiles (10, two per box); and Deaf GEOFF by guest artist Ermsy (1 in 5 boxes)
• Sketch cards: hand-drawn sketch cards by 20 artists named by Topps, listed by artist

Key characters

The set brings back characters from the original fifth series, including Sprayed WADE, NAT Nerd, CLARK Can't and MICK Dagger. Lovely LEA (2b) is the character on the short-printed box.

Grading considerations

Match the suffix as well as the number: 1a, 1b and 1c are different names for the same subject. Check the heart border colour, and match any serial number to the foil colour. The Deaf GEOFF card, Gold Foil Border /50 and Rainbow Foil /25 are the scarcest cards. Inspect foil surfaces under angled light, and check corners and centering, as GPK stickers are prone to off-center cuts.

Sources and caveats

• Topps: 2023 Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Valentine's Day is Canceled!

Topps' listing gives the box contents, odds, parallels, the short-printed Lovely Lea box and the sketch artists. It does not list card names, so names and numbers come from secondary checklists that agree with each other. Topps' listing says "Available From Feb 9, 2022", which appears to be a typo for 2023. It also names the foils "Gold Goil Border" and "Rainbow Baseball", and the Ermsy card "Deaf Jeoff"; the cards are shown here as collectors know them. The red and pink box colours also come from secondary sources.