2024 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Putrid Poetry Checklist

2024 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Putrid Poetry is the Valentine's Day Garbage Pail Kids set Topps sold only on topps.com, from 8 February 2024 while supplies lasted. Each box holds 29 cards: the 20-card base set and a checklist, three Red Heart kiss-cut sticker parallels, one Chocolate Fingerprint parallel, two Putrid Poems, one C Name and one foil, sketch or relic card. A short-printed box featuring Bony TONY turns up in about 1 in 10. Topps gave no print run.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 20 cards, 10 subjects with A and B names (1a to 10b). The checklist card is not listed as a row
• Parallels: Red Hearts (kiss-cut stickers, three per box), Chocolate Fingerprint (one per box), Gold Foil Border /50 (1 in 3 boxes) and Rainbow Foil /25 (1 in 6)
• Inserts: C Names (10, one per box), Putrid Poems (10, two per box) and Tina and Hedy by guest artist Ermsy (1 in 5 boxes)
• Relics: three relic cards, 1 in 10 boxes
• Sketch cards: hand-drawn sketch cards (1 in 2.5 boxes) by 26 artists named by Topps, listed by artist

Key characters

The set revisits characters from the original fourth series, including Bony TONY, HOLLY Wood, ASHLEY Can and JACK O. Lantern, which also appear on the relic cards. The Ermsy card combines Guillo TINA and Decapitated HEDY.

Grading considerations

Match the suffix as well as the number: 1a, 1b and 1c are different names for the same subject, and the Putrid Poems reuse numbers 1 to 10. The Red Heart parallels are kiss-cut stickers, so check the cut edges as well as the corners. Match any serial number to the foil colour, and inspect foil surfaces under angled light. The relic cards are thicker than the base.

Sources and caveats

• Topps: 2024 Topps Garbage Pail Kids: Valentine's Day: Putrid Poetry

Topps' listing gives the box contents, odds, parallels, the short-printed Bony Tony 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 does not publish relic print runs, and the relic cards are listed without numbers because none is confirmed. Topps' specification table gives the product year as 2025, but the product is titled and sold as 2024.