2026 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day Checklist

2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day is Topps' annual Valentine's Day GPK set, following the 2025 edition. It was an online exclusive sold on Topps.com from 12 February 2026 in boxes of 3 packs with 8 cards per pack: six base cards, one Red Heart Border parallel and one hit. Topps did not state a print run or a sale window.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 50 cards, 25 subjects with A names (1A-25A) and B names (1B-25B). Most backs carry a piece of one of five puzzles; 21B-25B carry the finished puzzles
• Parallels: Red Heart Border (one per pack) and the heart foil board parallels Pink Hearts Foil /50, Baby Blue Hearts Foil /25, Yellow Hearts Foil /10, Black Hearts Foil /5 and Gold Hearts Foil 1/1, all of the 50 base subjects
• Inserts: C Names 1C-25C, a third name for each subject (1:3 packs), and GPK Comics 1-10, short Valentine's comics (1:6 packs)
• Variations: Black Heart Variations of ten A-name subjects (1:15 packs), short-printed alternate art numbered as the base subject. They are not the Black Hearts Foil /5 parallel
• Sketch cards: hand-drawn 1/1 sketch cards (1:9 packs) by 29 artists, listed by artist

Key characters

The puzzle backs build Tongue Tied TEDDY (1A), SHEL Game (12A), Slimy HYMIE (19A), Butt-Bit BRANDON (9B) and Abstract ART (15B). Card 20 runs HARRY Armpits (20A), Under ARNIE (20B) and ARMOND Pit (20C).

Grading considerations

Match the suffix and the subset: base A and B names, C Names, Black Heart Variations and GPK Comics all reuse low numbers, and a Black Heart Variation carries the same number and name as its A-name base card, so check the art and border. 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, and check corners, edges and centering on both sides. See our pricing.

Sources and caveats

• Topps: 2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day checklist (PDF)
• Topps: odds (PDF)
• Topps: sketch card artists (PDF)
• Topps: 2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day Box
• Topps: Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day

Card names are kept as Topps printed them on the checklist, including "Post no BILL" (21A) and "Round ROBYNS" (10B). The sketch artist list names contributors, not individual sketches. Topps has not published print runs for the unnumbered cards.