One piece of gum came in each unopened United States Garbage Pail Kids wax pack from the original 15 series produced in the 1980s, and it was the same type of gum as the Bazooka bubble gum, which Topps also produces. I recommend not trying the gum that came in the original series 1-15 packs because it is so old that it is probably unsafe to chew. Most likely, the old gum would be extremely stale and hard, but it is also possible that bacteria, mold, and/or mildew were growing on the gum.

There were seventeen regular United States Garbage Pail Kids series released from 1985 to 1988 (fifteen series) and 2003 to 2007 (six series). There were also two "Giant" series made. One Giant series was called "Giant Stickers," and the other was called "1st Series Kids." The names of the Giant series vary depending on who you ask, but all you need to know is that there were two different Giant series made.

John Pound has original Garbage Pail Kids rough-sketches and paintings on his website for sale. Besides Garbage Pail Kids, John created artwork for other non-sports cards such as Meanie Babies, Trash Can Trolls, and Wacky Packages. He has some of the unpublished artwork from the United States Garbage Pail Kids 16th Series shown on his website.

Garbage Pail Kids are non-sports trading cards by Topps that were originally made in the United States from 1985 to 1988 and then from 2003 to 2007. The Garbage Pail Kids are parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls that were popular in the 1980s. Cabbage Patch Kids dolls were marketed towards young girls, and Garbage Pail Kids cards were marketed towards young boys. The general concept of the Garbage Pail Kids was to use the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls to parody just about everything possible.

Often, Garbage Pail Kids are called stickers, but regular sheets of stickers are usually stuck on some sort of thin waxpaper. The Garbage Pail Kids sticker fronts are stuck onto card backing, so they are usually referred to as cards.

The correct abbreviation for Garbage Pail Kids is GPK. GPK's is for the possessive form of Garbage Pail Kids (as in Garbage Pail Kids'). It is very common to see people incorrectly writing the abbreviation as GPK's or GPKs. Sometimes, you can find people using GBK as the abbreviation, which is obviously wrong. My guess is that they were typing their message in a hurry and abbreviated the word "garbage" as GB instead of just the G.

You can check my For Sale section, or you can try some of the other Garbage Pail Kids websites. I do not recommend collecting the non-US Garbage Pail Kids until you have collected all of the Garbage Pail Kids from the United States because the non-US Garbage Pail Kids are much more difficult and expensive to collect. Since non-US Garbage Pail Kids are uncommon and sometimes very rare, it is difficult to find someone who is selling them.

To get a good idea of how much Garbage Pail Kids cards are worth, you should review my Price Guide section. I did not list how much the non-US Garbage Pail Kids are worth (except for the United Kingdom Garbage Pail Kids 1st Series) because there really are not enough in the market to give a fair estimate. Since I do not collect Garbage Pail Kids items, I could not give a good estimate of their value, so I did not list them in the price guide.

I am only looking for the items listed in my Wanted section. If what you want to sell me is not listed there, then I am most likely not interested in purchasing the items from you. I mostly collect the non-US Garbage Pail Kids cards and items, and I know I am not aware of all of the Garbage Pail Kids items that were produced around the world. If you believe you have something I would be interested in, please contact me.

Art Spiegelman and Mark Newgarden were the editors and art directors -- I worked with them the most. Len Brown was the manager over the GPK project. Tom Bunk did some of the GPK paintings starting with Series 3, and James Warhola also did some paintings. Jay Lynch helped Topps out with ideas for some of the fronts and backs. I think MAD writer Stan Hart helped with some of the names. And I think Howard Cruse did a few backs too. There may have been a few more artists who did some backs too.

There was a Garbage Pail Kids handbook that another collector put together. I would not recommend the book because it contains some inaccuracies. Also, there is limited information in the handbook, and there are no color images in it. There were also a variety of Garbage Pail Kids guides and booklets put together by collectors back in the 1980s, and one of the popular guides was Mikael's price guide. Mikael's price guides are collectible, but the pricing information is no longer useful.

All of the people listed below had varying degrees of involvement for the creation of the Garbage Pail Kids, and some of them may have taken on additional roles besides what is listed. Those that have an asterisk near their name were heavily involved with the creation of the Garbage Pail Kids right from the beginning. For the Garbage Pail Kids card fronts, there may have been a few parodies of other card sets, but the card fronts were mostly based on new ideas instead of other card sets.

Many people were against children collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards back in the 1980s. They felt the cards were very vulgar and in bad taste. Before anyone says anything negative about the cards, they should definitely take some time to actually look at them. Why protest something you do not really know anything about? And remember, the protests about the cards back in the 1980s actually helped advertise them and significantly increased their popularity. Look at what the images depict.

United States Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series number 67a Phony Lisa / 67b Mona Loser is a parody of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci United States Garbage Pail Kids 5th Series number 178a Earl Painting / 178b Blue-Boy George is a parody of Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough United States Garbage Pail Kids 5th Series number 196a Dangling Dolly / 196b Surreal Neal is a parody of Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali United States Garbage Pail Kids 7th Series number 263a Vincent Van Gone / 263b Modern Art.

Look under my Card Information section. It tells most of the basic information you would need to know about the United States Garbage Pail Kids. There are also a few other good Garbage Pail Kids websites out there. The links to some of those websites are in the Links section. Besides the cards, there were many Garbage Pail Kids items produced. Some of the items were made by Topps, but most of them were made by other manufacturers.

There are 10 different figures for each of the two series of Cheap Toys, and each character comes in 6 different colors (beige, blue, green, orange, red, and yellow). The United States and United Kingdom had the same 10 characters but had slightly different packaging and were made out of slightly different material. The United States figures usually go for $1-$3 each.

There was a live-action Garbage Pail Kids movie released back in 1987. The Garbage Pail Kids characters were actors dressed up in costumes that distantly resemble the artwork on the Garbage Pail Kids cards. When I saw the movie, I thought it was horrible, and I do not recommend it. Still, there are plenty of collectors that want to see the movie, and it is somewhat of a cult classic. If your local video store does not carry the movie, you can try searching eBay for it.

There is a Garbage Pail Kids soundtrack from the Garbage Pail Kids movie that contains a song titled "You Can Be a Garbage Pail Kid." The song was performed by Jimmy Scarlett and the Dimensions. The song by Faith No More titled "We Care A Lot" mentions Garbage Pail Kids, and the song by Ludacris titled "Growing Pains" mentions Garbage Pail Kids.