Like every good stick-it-to-the-adults product, Garbage Pail Kids cards were an immediate hit with kids when they debuted in 1985 … and an immediate thorn in the side for parents, teachers, clergymen, and no-fun-nicks.
Made to parody the wildly popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls of the day, the Garbage Pail Kids actually showed up on stickers albeit with stiff cardboard backs and checking in at a regulation-baseball-card-size 2 1/2″ X 3 1/2″.
Featuring cartoon versions of the same types of familiar dimply visages that graced Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, Garbage Pail Kids then perverted each tableau through a series of pun-derful disfigurements and naughty moments that included the likes of …
- Adam Bomb, with an exploding head
- Nasty Nick, a vampire-thing on the verge of (apparently) defiling a Barbie doll in some fashion
- Thin Lynn, a skeletonized redhead whose diet went a bit too far
- Stinky Stan, a garbage-can-dwelling baby-thing who appears to be naked
… and many other awful, terrible, delightful, irresistible beasties.
In all, there were 41 different tykes, issued across 82 different cards — basically, two series (“A” and “B”) each featuring the same artwork but with different clever(ish) child names.
While kids of the era ate these things up, there was, of course, backlash from adults, and maybe even a conspiracy or two as the cards sank into obscurity and eventually ended up mostly in commons bins or — gasp! — discarded entirely.
But those kids grew up, and when we did, we remembered how much fun it was to make fun of those pudgy, little-kid Cabbage Patch things … and realized how much we really wanted to stick it to the man, just like our stickers did way back then.
And, so, what did we do?
Yeah, we sought out our Garbage Pail Kids.
When we did? Well, we found out they weren’t quite as easy to come by as we might have imagined. Demand rose, supply didn’t, and prices climbed.
Eventually, these silly little baubles entered the realm of real collectibles, so much so that we started getting graded, just like our Mickey Mantle and Pete Rose and Pete LaCock baseball cards.
Today, you need look no further than the list of most-watched Garbage Pail Kids cards on eBay right now (see below) to realize that these little troublemakers will never truly go out of style. And check back often, because this GPK list is updated all the time.
(NOTE: The section below contains affiliate links to eBay listings for the card shown.)

2022 Topps MLB x Garbage Pail Kids Alex Pardee BASEBALL GUY Art Card #SK SSP GPK
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Begrudged Judge RARE Holo Card Alex Pardee 1/1!!! Garbage Pail Kids Aaron 4b
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2022 Topps GPK X MLB Garbage Pail Kids ALEX PARDEE Series Lot of 20 base cards
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2022 Topps MLB x Garbage Pail Kids Keith Shore ALMOST full set 26/30 cards!!!
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Topps MLB x GPK Pardee VLADIMIR GUERRERO JR Parallel 42/199 TOM NATOR Card 6b
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Topps MLB x GPK Pardee VLADIMIR GUERRERO JR Foil Parallel /199 TOM NATOR Card 6b
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2022 TOPPS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS GPK MLB JUAN SOTO PADRES CARD SP 3 A&B
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Topps MLB x Garbage Pail Kids Keith Shore Julio Rodriguez On-Card Auto #/99 RC
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2022 Topps x Garbage Pail Kids by Alex Pardee Mike Trout 2 card lot 2a & 2b
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2022 TOPPS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS GPK MLB RONALD ACUNA JR BRAVES CARD SP 8 A & B
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2022 TOPPS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS GPK MLB MIGUEL CABRERA TIGERS CARD SP 12 A&B
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2022 TOPPS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS GPK MLB WANDER FRANCO ROOKIE CARD SP RC 5 A&B
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(2x) 2021-22 Garbage Pail Kids 10 Card Mystery Packs
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2022 TOPPS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS GPK MLB HUNTER GREENE REDS ROOKIE CARD SP RC 7 A&B
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2022 TOPPS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS GPK MLB RONALD ACUNA JR BRAVES CARD SP 8 A&B
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2022 TOPPS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS GPK MLB MIKE TROUT ANGELS BASEBALL CARD SP 4 A&B
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GARBAGE PAIL KIDS ROY BOT CARD EX
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74 Card 2022 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome Series 5 Base Card Lot no Duplicates
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2022 TOPPS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS GPK MLB ALBERT PUJOLS CARDINALS BASEBALL CARD SP
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GARBAGE PAIL KIDS SIS POOL CARD EX
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GARBAGE PAIL KIDS BALL N SHANE CARD EX
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GARBAGE PAIL KIDS LUCAS MUCUS CARD EX
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GARBAGE PAIL KIDS JESS EXPRESS CARD EX
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GARBAGE PAIL KIDS ITCHY MITCH CARD EX
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GARBAGE PAIL TANYA HIDE KIDS CARD EX
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