01. On February 05, 2026, the GPK News website shared the Valentine's Day box advert, seen below, stating, "2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Day coming next week, 2/12/26. Check out GPKNews for more info!". The same day, Topps added a GPK Valentine's trending-now image link to their GPK landing page, with the set title, '2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day', that stated 'COMING SOON'. Once the trending-now image was clicked, it brought the consumer to the GPK Valentine's Day page (https://www.topps.com/pages/garbage-pail-kids-valentines-day) that showcased seven set images and stated, "Available February 12 at 2pm ET [NOTE: these posted at 3pm ET]. 2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Day. Get ready for a party as we celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Garbage Pail Kids." A collector could also select a 'Get notified' button to enter their email address that stated, "Sign up to be notified of Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day. Available February 12 at 2pm ET. Email Address: XXXXXXX. Submit." and once submited, "Thanks for signing up! Be on the lookout for Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Day." [NOTE: a notification blast email was never received.] A 'Download checklist' button and link was also available that brought you to a PDF file and on February 12 the 'Odds' & sketch 'Artists' checklists were posted.



The 'About the release' section simply stated, "Collect the entire 50 card base set featuring some of your favorite Garbage Pail Kids getting ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day! Look for Artist sketch Cards, Collectible Inserts and Exclusive Parallels!", and the page asked, 'What are you chasing?' and listed the following categories — Foil Parallels: Various Numbered Parallels • Sketch Cards: 1/1 Sketches • GPK Comics: Short Comics • Black Heart Variations: SP [short print] Art Variations • C Name: C Name Variation. The page also containted a 'About the brand' section that simply stated, "The Garbage Pail Kids are here to celebrate the season of love. Each year we select a few characters from each series and reimagine them celebrating Valentine’s Day. Look for sketch cards, comics, art variations and much more." On February 05, 2026, artist JOE Simko took to social media to announce the set with his 'Spider DANE' mock-up card image, stating, "New Garbage Pail Kids art. Valentines set coming out next week." On the same day, artist MIKE Stephens also took to his social media channels to share his submission, stating, "I painted this little heartthrob for the upcoming GPK Valentines release. Check out the Topps website for more info and to get some of your own!"




On February 06, 2026, artist NEIL Camera took to Facebook to post his JESS Express piece, stating, "Time to get on the love train with the all-new GPK Valentines Day set coming soon to Topps.com! Chugga chugga!" On February 09, 2026, the Topps Pop! social media page posted the five main mock-up card images, all with red 'frames' around the card border, announcing the release of the upcoming set, stating, "BE MINE! 2026 Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Day coming February 12th." As seen below, the first image had a large announcement plate for the set title over the bottom third of Spider DANE character.



2026 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Valentines Day Box — SRP $60.00 — SOLD OUT <5MINS
8 CARDS PER PACK; 3 PACKS PER BOX; LOOK FOR SKETCH CARDS — SHIPS IN 5-7 BUSINESS DAYS; LIMIT PER CUSTOMER: 20

2026 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Valentines Day Case — SRP $600.00 — SOLD OUT <2MINS
8 CARDS PER PACK; 3 PACKS PER BOX; 10 BOXES PER CASE — SHIPS IN 5-7 BUSINESS DAYS; LIMIT PER CUSTOMER: 20




BOX CODE = NONE; UPC = 8-87521-16656-5

OVERVIEW — (3) Packs Per Box • (8) Cards Per Pack • (6) Base Cards Plus (1) Red Heart Border (1) Hit Per Pack [• (10) boxes per case]. Hits Include: Sketch Cards • Foil Paralles • C Name • GPK Comics • Black Heart Variations DESCRIPTION — Base Set 50 Cards (25A and 25B) • Base Set Foil Board Parallels (50 Subjects) • /50 Pink Hearts Foil Parallel • /25 Baby Blue Hearts Foil Parallel • /10 Yellow Hearts Foil Parallel • /5 Black Hearts Foil Parallel • /1 Gold Hearts Foil Parallel Inserts • Red Heart Border (50 Subjects) • C Names (25 Subjects) • GPK Comics (10 subjects) • Black Heart Variations (10 subjects) • Sketch Cards. All sales are final. Art subject to change. Not responsible for typographical/printer errors. SPECS — SKU: FGC007767-DB [+ SKU: FGC007767-CSE] • Category: Entertainment • Sub Categories: Pop Culture • Sub Type: Hobby • Product Year: 2026 • Brand: Topps • Sub Brand: Garbage Pail Kids (GPK) • Product Type: Hobby • Available From: Feb 12, 2026.


NOTE: PARALLEL HEART CARDS FOR 16B CHOO-CHOO TRINA HAVE AN ERRONOUS '7b' (IN BLACK FONT) STAMPED TO THE BOTTOM RIGHT-HAND CORNER SIDE, ALONG THE SUBWAY TRACKS. ARTIST NEIL CAMERA ADDED 'NC+JC' TO THE IMAGE FOR HIS WIFE.

Sketch Card Artist List (alphabetically by surname) — Acevedo, David + Arena, Simone + Artz, Andrew + Ball, Robert + Blakey, Bobby + Camera, Neil + Castaneda, Nik + Crockett, Steve (70) + Day, David (70) + D'Ippolito, Vincent + Fages/Treize, Gregory (30) + Greider, Kelly + Grobman, Kimber (50) + Jones, Karl + Lassen, Pepe + Laurich, Aaron + Parisi, Mark + Pepe, Darrin + Medina, Eric + Meeks, Sandy + Mercado, Lily + Muggli, Nik (70) + Muller, Eric + Olson, Justin + Rhodes, Eddie + SantaFerrara, Carmen (60) + Scheres, Chad (70) + Snyder, Brandhen + Sumner, Robert. NOTE: the sketch artists created 50, 60, or 70 sketch cards each, and received 5, 6, or 7 return sketch cards to sell, respectively.


NOTE: GROSS CONCEPT; ENGSTROM ADDED TEETH & BOW TO ARTWORK & NO HEART MOON


NOTE: ENGSTROM CONCEPT; IN GENERAL, ARTISTS CAME UP WITH THEIR OWN C-NAMES

mikestephensart — (FEB 05) "I painted this little heartthrob for the upcoming GPK Valentines release. Check out the Topps website for more info and to get some of your own!" [Fun GUS character] + (FEB 06) "Here’s a little bit of my process on this GPK cards!"
joesimko_nyc — (FEB 05) "New Garbage Pail Kids art. Valentines set coming out next week." [Varicose WAYNE character]
carmen_santaferrara_art — (FEB 06) "Now that this year's GPK Valentine's Day set has been officially announced... I have a handful of BLANKS AVAILABLE 4 COMMISSION! PM to claim yours!" + (FEB 12) "Topps Garbage Pail Kids Valentine's Day '26 set releases today! Here are the 60 sketch cards that I drew for the set! If you find one of mine please tag me!"
david day — (FEB 11) "Hi, here are my GPK Valentines sketch cards full[y] painted in acrylics, all 70 of them... happy hunting, everyone. I have GPK AP for [sale], PM me."
kimberlandart (Grobman) — (FEB 12) "Today is the day! The new GPK valentines set drops on Topps! I contributed 50 hand painted sketch cards! Happy hunting! If you miss a box or are looking for a sketch straight from me, I have several Valentines APs from last year and 5 new ones from this set, in my shop!" + (FEB 13) "Here are my Artist Proofs from this year’s valentines set! They are available in my sketch card shop now!"
greg13_art (Fages/Treize) — (FEB 12) "It’s official! The GARBAGE PAIL KIDS – Valentine’s Day set drops today! I’m very proud to have been part of this release and to have created 30 sketch cards for the set. If you pull one, make sure to tag me — I’d love to see where they land!"
andrew_artz / andyart.z — (FEB 12) "Here are my contributions to the new 2026 Topps Garabage Pail Kids Valentines set. I’m so excited to see these turn up! There are 45 standard “I’m Pinking of You!” sketches with micro-glitter purple border. Sure to warm even the coldest of hearts. And just to spice things up, I painted 5 ultra-chase “Adam Bomb’s Crummy Chocolate Bars” that are out there somewhere! Who can collect them all? Each of the wrapper hearts is painted with 100% Brazilian chocolate essential oil mixed in. They smell like real candy! (Just don’t take a bite…) 4 Adam Bars - silver foil. 1 Adam Bar - 24k gold foil."
davidgrossgpk — (FEB 12) "Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Day Is Gross is out today (and sold out). Here’s one of the paintings I did." [Mummified CLYDE] + (FEB 14) "Happy Valentine’s Day! New card I painted from Valentine’s Day is Gross!" [Post No BILL w/ "Love Dave, XOXO on background"]
crockpotcomics (Steve) — (FEB 12) "GPK Valentine's Day releases today...and already sold out! Here are 70 of the sketch cards I did for the set."
niklas_tattoo (Muggli) — (FEB 12) "Some V-day cards I did for today’s release." + "Some AP I did for the new V-Day set! Freddy is available. Other two have sold."
cscheres — (FEB 12) "Garbage Pail Kids valentines Day sold out Fast! Here's some of the one of a kind sketch cards I did for the set."
brandhen_snyder — (FEB 13) ""Happy 2026 GPK Valentine’s Day!!
medina11studios — (FEB 13) "GPKs [V]day released yesterday, here’s some the sketch cards I did for the release mixed media, spraypaint, markers, pastels, airbrush and more. I'll be showing more throughout the weekened and next week.enjoy." + (FEB 14) "GPK released yesterday. Sketch cards, mixed media, another pick of more of the mixed media sketch cards I did for GPK Valentine’s Day release using materials such as iwata airbrush, golden acrylics, tooli acrylic pens, olo markers, conte pastel pencils, Montana spray paint & more. Enjoy pic 2 of 5…" + (FEB 15) "GPK Valentines day, pic2. More mixed media sketch cards olo markers, tooli acrylic pens, Montana spray paint, conte pencils and more. Enjoy. Exploding Adams & when the arrow goes the wrong way." + (FEB 16) "GPK V-Day image 4 of 5 sketch cards, mixed media markers spray paint tooli acrylic paint pens and olo markers, enjoy 2026…" + (FEB 19) "GPK V-Day released last week. Here [is] my final pic. Page 5 x 5 of the mixed media sketch cards, enjoy."
darrinpepeart — (FEB 14) "I love GPK! But they love you More!! Happy Valentines Day!?? GPK2026"
newwavedave15 (David Acevedo) — (FEB 19) "Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Day 2026 1/1 artist sketch cards. Here’s a few cards I drew for the series all randomly inserted in packs. Good luck on the hunt fam!"
Joe McWilliams (FB) — "I Ripanwinkled my way through Valentine's Day... I hear they went like hotcakes. Here's a little reminder to speak your mind now and then. Enjoy!" [Tongue Tied TEDDY character]