A One Card GPK Post

I love coming across cards that I never knew about, which is the case with some Breaking Bad cards from the 2014 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 set. There were various bonus cards inserted in to hobby boxes, retail boxes and jumbo packs. In the Hobby Boxes there were eight different bonus cards which included two Breaking Bad cards (#B4a and B4b) and these bonus cards were inserted one per box.

I was able to pick up the #B4a Breaking Brad last summer for under $10 but I was outbid for the #B4b Weird Walt version. I am still watching for Weird Walt with no luck. On a separate note, when the artwork was originally done for this card in 2013 card #B4a was supposed to be Weird Walt and #B4b was supposed to be Brock Candy, I am not sure why they changed it but I think the names they finally used are better choices.

Sure, I Know Earl The Hacker

 

I have hit my max of political talk even though I will probably watch the final debate tonight but I will do one political post before the election.

 

To explain the card, during the first debate in September there was a discussion between Trump and Clinton about who hacked the Democratic National Committee and released emails about Clinton’s campaign in which Trump responded that it could have been anyone from the Russians, Chinese or it could have been a person sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds. Not to miss out on a great opportunity Topps jumped on their design google machines and came up with this cool GPK card and like the fool that I am I bought the card, I am fine with that though, and seems fitting that it was delivered from Topps today in time for the debate.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers In GPK Form

When Topps released the 2016 GPK Best of the Fest through their online store and I saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers were lampooned I was all in on this one. I have been a fan of the Chili Peppers going back to the late 1980s/early 90s. This was one of the few times I didn’t even think twice about the price, which was $10 plus free shipping for both cards. I actually just ordered another online exclusive GPK but that will be for a later post.

GPK Goes Baseball... Sorta

               

With Garbage Pail Kids hitting its 30^th anniversary Topps is paying tribute to where it all started with the 1985 design and a touch of baseball when the next GPK release next week. Along with the standard Garbage Pail Kids cards, stickers, sketch cards and printing plates there will be a couple of baseball related cards.

The cards include the 1952 Topps Baseball design, the 1985 Topps GPK design, All-Stars, Mascots and manufactured patches. I do not normally like manufactured patches but when it comes to comic card products like this (Archer, Epic Battles, Women of Legend and Adventure Time) I actually like them because it provides some tangible from a cartoon.

I don’t expect to chase these cards but if I have the opportunity to pick a Logo Patch for a reasonable price or in a trade I would be happy to include it in my collection. I think it would be cool if Topps created GPK versions of some of the players from the 1952 & 1985 sets. I think seeing a GPK version of Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays or Roy Campanella in the ’52 design or Mark McGwire and Roger Clemens in the ’85 design would be awesome.

Topps Offers Live Sketch Cards At The NYCC

Next week the New York Comic Con opens, 10/11-10/14, and Topps decided to bring something original to the table. This year there will be a collection of illustrators who have worked on various Topps’ releases and they will be creating free hand-drawn sketch cards to be given away by Topps. Each card will be a 1/1 and they will be marked as a NYCC exclusive.

 

The cards will include Mars Attacks, Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Package themed sketches.

 

The artists scheduled to be participating over the four days of the Comic Con:

Jason Brower
Jacob Chabot
Jason Edmiston
Chris Giarrusso
David Gross
Mark Pingitore
Joe Simko
Jeff Zapata