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Garbage Pail Kids - The Gross, Weird, and Wonderful Cards That Took Over the 80s

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Garbage Pail Kids - The Gross, Weird, and Wonderful Cards That Took Over the 80s In the mid-1980s, while kids were trading baseball cards and begging for Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, Topps decided to stir the pot. The result? Garbage Pail Kids  - a set of hilariously gross, satirical trading cards that became both a playground sensation and a cultural controversy. Adam Bomb – The most iconic Garbage Pail Kid of them all Where it all began First released in 1985 by Topps, Garbage Pail Kids were designed as a parody of the wildly popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. Each card featured a grotesque yet funny character with pun-filled names like Adam Bomb , Leaky Lindsay , or Up Chuck . Kids loved them. Parents… not so much. Artwork came from comic legends like Art Spiegelman (later Pulitzer Prize winner for Maus ) and John Pound, who turned gross-out humor into collectible gold. Every sticker card had two versions: an “A” and “B” name, but with the same artwork — ...
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DID YOU KNOW #2 - Gary Pettis was not Gary Pettis?

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Gary Pettis' 1985 Topps Card… Starring His Brother? Baseball cards have seen their fair share of printing errors and quirky mistakes — but this one might be the most charming of all. In 1985, Topps released a card for then-California Angels outfielder Gary Pettis . The only problem? The guy on the card wasn’t Gary at all… it was his younger brother. The 1985 Topps card that started the confusion It all happened one Sunday at the ballpark. Pettis' younger brother had tagged along, wearing a uniform and running drills with other kids while the players were doing their thing. That just happened to be the day Topps photographers were snapping player shots for the upcoming set. Gary wasn’t even aware pictures were being taken… but his brother was out there, in full gear and looking pretty similar to his big-league sibling. As Gary later explained in an interview: "My brother would come out to the ballpark on Sundays and go out on the field. I gue...
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