Garbage Pail Kids: The Irreverent Trading Card Phenomenon of the 1980s
In 1985, amidst the pristine, heroic images of baseball players and comic book superheroes, an unlikely trading card series disrupted the scene: Garbage Pail Kids (GPK). Created by the Topps Company, GPK was a satirical, humorous take on the popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, blending gross-out humor with pop culture commentary. What started as a…