Thread: Anyone Collect Garbage Pail Kids?

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Okay so Garbage Pail Kids are a trading card from the 1980s that made fun of Cabbage Patch Kids in morbid and gory ways. The cards often took a gruesome way of making fun of pop culture and life in the 80s. In other words Garbage Pail Kids trading cards were hilarious and more often then not Halloween themed.

They branched off to make action figures, clothing, a cartoon that parents banished from the air before it started and a movie that was deemed worst movie ever made.

I love Garbage Pail Kids and my entire collection was destroyed by an angry teacher growing up in the 1980s all 1000 cards were trashed. I recently have been regaining my collection back and I have obtained the original series 1 2 and parts of 3 4 5 6.

Does Anybody else collect these if so do you have a pic of your favorite? Here is card 1 from series 1 which is my favorite. Meet Nasty Nick!

Here are a few more of my favorites!

I seem to remember them being really disgusting - you have some of the more tasteful ones, I think! But nope - never collected them.

gris, i'm 59 and garbage pail kids were around when i was a kid. way before the cabbage patch dolls came out. parents were aghast and we were all forbade to have them. i was surprised to see them make a come back in the 80's. and yes, i collect the stickers.
you have...nasty nick...mine reads...evil eddie
you have...alien ian...i have alien ian...and...outerspace chase
you have...ali gator...mine reads...marshy marshal
i don't have the bat one...it's cool
you have...beth death...i have beth death...and...grim jim
i have...frank n. stein
you have...jack o. lantern...mine reads...duncan pumpkin
it's hard to pick a favorite. probably the same one you picked and this one

Hallo you have a great collection! I am not saying you are wrong but are you sure they were out before the 80s? The reason I ask is I was positive artist John Pound was the first to draw them to directly mimic Cabbage Patch Kids in 1985.

I know in the 1960s there were Mars Attacks cards made by Topps and a few other like that but I have never found info on Garbage Pail Kids past 1985. Here is a Wiki link I found as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Pail_Kids

Wow that's a flashback. I loved these..hmm but thanks to them, I got called Sicky Vicky...lol I think most kids ended up with garbage pail kid names.

okay gris, i'm sure. i didn't keep any of my few old ones, but let me see if my sisters did. would they have dates on the backs? and you do know they are still selling them

i googled garbage pail kids, and there are others who are saying there were some out in the 70's. and there are some who are saying there weren't. but i for sure remember them. i remember when they came out in the 80's too.

HAHA alot of us got called by their names it seemed perfect to use as fodder as a kid.

hallo yes they should be dated on the side of the borders or the backs. The new ones they are making are now called "flashback GPK cards" It was pretty neat to see them back in circulation.

I use to when I was younger.
I saw some at rite aid a few months ago brought back memories.

I managed to get hold of loads of garbage pail kids scans tonight. It seems the US and UK versions had different names I think sicky vicky was virus iris in the US...If anybody wants them send me a pm

contains series 1-15, series giants, series sheets, unreleased series 16 cards (also in the series 16 file is a comic with Elvira in it) and some extras