2025 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day Checklist

Garbage Pail Kids celebrate Valentine's Day with heart-themed foil, C-name alternates, stamp cards and Black Heart variations

2025 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day is a Topps hobby release with 3 packs per box and 8 cards per pack: six base cards, one Red Heart Border card and one hit. This page lists 125 printed cards from Topps's checklist: 50 base, 25 C Names, 25 Never Stamps and 25 Black Heart Variations. Names are kept exactly as Topps printed them, including "Adam Boom" (1A) and "Blasted Billly II" (1B).

What's in the checklist

• Base: 50 cards, 25 A names (1A-25A) and 25 B names (1B-25B)
• Parallels: Red Heart Border (one per pack) and the heart foil board parallels Pink Hearts Foil /40, Baby Blue Hearts Foil /25, Yellow Hearts Foil /10, Black Hearts Foil /5 and Gold Hearts Foil 1/1. Topps states these for the 50 base subjects only
• Inserts: C Names 1C-25C, a third set of alternate names (1:3 packs), and Never Stamps 1-25, stamp-themed cards of the 25 A-name subjects (Valentine Day Stamps, 1:5 packs). Topps lists the stamps as cards, not stickers
• Variations: Black Heart Variations 1-25 of the A-name subjects (1:3 boxes). They are a separate variation, not the Black Hearts Foil /5 parallel
• Autographs and sketches: no autograph roster is established. Sketch cards (1:9 packs) are hand-drawn one-offs; Topps names 23 participating artists, which does not guarantee any artist or autograph in a pack

Notable subjects

Explorin' Norman (2A), Glowing Amber (3A), Heartless HAL (9A), Clark Shark (12A) and Tongue Tied TINA (23A). Each also appears in the Never Stamps and Black Heart Variations under the same name with its own 1-25 number.

Snapshot

This is a source-limited, dated snapshot as of 9 October 2026 based on Topps's product page and checklist. It is not a complete master checklist. Topps gives 4 February 2025 as an "available from" store date; no release date is set.

Grading considerations

Identify each card by year, theme, number and suffix (A, B or C), and by subset: base, C Name, Never Stamp or Black Heart Variation, since stamps and variations reuse 1-25. The same art can carry different names, so match the printed name, not just the picture, and separate a name variant from a finish. Confirm the heart border or foil colour and match any serial number to it. Foil board shows scratches, print lines and dents easily, so inspect the surface under angled light. Check corners, edges and centering on both sides, and handle the smaller stamp-style design carefully at the edges.