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RELEASE PERIOD : MARCH 2013

The Brand-New Series 2 GPK set was released in the late winter of 2013 by Topps, Inc. and distributed in March — only six months after the BNS1 set released in October of 2012. The GPK series includes all-new artwork by veteran GPK artists Tom Bunk and James Warhola, but is mainly comprised of artwork by returning next-generation GPK artists Brent Engstrom, Layron DeJarnette, Mark Pingitore, Joe Simko, John Cebollero and newcomer JungHwa Im, along with concept artwork by Colin Walton (art director), Dave Gross, Tom Bunk, Mark Pingitore, Neil Camera, Joe Simko, Brent Engstrom and Jeff Zapata. Newcomer Pat Barrett completed a large amount of content for the set; he finished all of the artwork for the Foldees and Glow-in-the-Dark chase insert cards, as well as wrote all of the GPK comics and finished half of the artwork, as well as assisted with sketch cards. The brand manager at Topps for GPK among other products is Stephen Dumas for this release. For the first print run, each foil or plastic pack, with a suggested retail price of $2.49, contains ten stickers on 14 card stock, nine base card singles and a chance to come across a 3D card (inserted 1:12 packs), a Glow-in-the-Dark sticker (inserted 1:6; printing plate 1:18432), a Foldee card (inserted 1:4), a base card Printing Plate (inserted 1:2509; bonus box Bonus card printing plate 1:4254; 468 total), and three levels of Parallel cards; Black border (inserted 1:2), Silver border (Hobby only; inserted 1:24), and Gold border (inserted 1:70; 85 per subject). The set also contains nine bonus card pairs; four found in special value bonus boxes, eight found in Hobby boxes (1 per box; 1:24), and six found exclusively in Jumbo packs (no posters for this release). Ten different artists contributed to sketch cards for this set (inserted 1:757 Retail, 1:115 Hobby; 2,000 total) listed further below. There are also eighteen very rare C-name cards for the returning classic GPK characters (no odds given; no parallels).

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*MOCK UP BOX IMAGE* MAIN WRAPPER ARTWORK : JOHN POUND ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS : JOE SIMKO

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146 BASE CARD SET = 146 Stickers - 212 SHORT CHASE SET = 146 Stickers + 10 Glow-in-the-Dark Stickers + 10 3D Cards+ 10 Foldees Cards + 18 C-Names + 18 Bonus Cards - 661 TOTAL INSERT SET = 146 Base Card Stickers + 146 Black Parallel + 146 Silver Parallel + 146 Gold Parallel + 18 C-Names + 10 Glow-In-The-Dark Stickers + 10 3D Cards + 10 Foldees Cards + 10 Sketch Cards (10 Different Artists) + 18 Bonus Stickers + 1 Printing Plate

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1. GPK Art Directer Colin Walton is back once again for the Brand-New Series GPK set as well as coming up with concept ideas and performing other tasks for the new series. Although the art director did not want the 'returning character' cards within the base set; the Brand team decided against it.

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2. A few Tom Bunk comparison Color Roughs for the BNS3 set for cards 67a Egg SHELDON and 67b Cracked CHRIS and 116a Dead TED, 116b Deliver ROY and 116c JAY Decay. The rough artwork for card 67 is drastically different from the final artwork, showcasing a brown egg and the spoon dipping into the yellow 'brain' yolk instead of coming down and cracking the egg. The sketch and color rough for card 116 shows the naming changes for the pizza joint — starting out as Doom's and Doomino's Pizza (a parody of Dominio's Pizza) and changing to Jay's Pizza and then Jay's Organic Pizza for the final artwork. More color roughs can be found within the Bunk Art BNS section.

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3. An Abrams 16-month GPK Wall Calendar for 2014 will be release in August of 2013 with four new LOST GPK bonus cards. The card images can be located within the Abrams GPK Book & Calendar section — link found on the main page within the GPK~Land section.

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4. The set contains several parody images of popular people of past years; real persons and pretend. One image in particular, for bonus cards B11a Giant GILLIAN and B11b FAYE Tall, portrays the poster image for the 1958 American science fiction flick Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

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5. The BNS2 GPK digital Sell Sheet displays a mock-up picture of cards 56a MEL Tin and 56b Marsh MARLOW, these published cards have a light blue nameplate and different names, whereas the mock-up image has a red nameplate with the name Roast TED.

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6. Two GPK Veterans are back for the BNS2 set, artist Tom Bunk, who completed six images for the series, and James Warhola, who completed several images for the new set. This is the first 'new' GPK set where new artwork from John Pound is not present since his retirement from commercial artwork; although several of his artwork pieces can be found in the Glow-in-the-Dark and 3D subsets.

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