HOBBY & RETAIL PRODUCTION RUNS
PACKAGE ARTWORK : JOHN POUND
DISPLAY BOX : 3 VARIATIONS + 1 BONUS BOX
WRAPPER : 5 VARIATIONS

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VALUE BOX CODE : 1-757-50-02-0 — UPC 0-41116-40757-4 — 18 PACK CT.
VALUE CASE BOX CODE : ?
VALUE PACK CODE : 0-757-54-02-0 — 24 CARDS + POSTER (1 of 5)



BOX CODE : 1-758-50-01-0 — UPC 0-41116-10758
CASE CODE : ? — UPC — 8 BOX / 24 PACKS
WRAPPER CODE : 0-757-54-01-0 — NO 'H' SYMBOL OR PRICE



BOX CODE : 1-758-50-02-0 — UPC : 0-41116-60758-5
CASE CODE : ? — 8 BOX / 24 PACKS
WRAPPER CODE : 0-757-54-0?-0 — NO 'H' SYMBOL OR PRICE



MINI GRAVITY FEED BOX CODE : 2-759-03-01-0
SPECIALTY MARKET; DOLLAR STORE — 4 CARDS
CASE BOX CODE : ? — ? BOX / ? PACK CT.
WRAPPER CODE : 0-759-54-02-0 — UPC 0-41116-00759-0 — NO 'H' SYMBOL OR PRICE



BLISTER PACK CODE : 5-759-30-01-0 — UPC 0-41116-60759-2
NOTE: B1, B2 OR B3 BONUS CARD — TARGET; 2 PACKS + 1
DISPLAY BOX CODE : 2-759-94-01-0 — UPC 0-41116-70759-9 — 1/20 CT
CASE BOX : 2-759-60-01-0 — #759-10BLE & #759-10BLS — 8/20 CT
WRAPPER CODE : 0-757-54-01-0 — NO 'H' OR PRICE; RETAIL



GRAVITY BOX CODE 2-771-03-01-0 — UPC 0-41116-10771-9 — 8 CARD CT. — TARGET
CASE BOX CODE : ?
WRAPPER CODE : 0-771-54-01-0 — UPC 0-41116-00771-2 — NO 'H' SYMBOL OR PRICE

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MINI GRAVITY BOX CODE : 2-771-03-02-0 — UPC 0-41116-30771-3 — 8 CARD CT. — WAL*MART
CASE BOX CODE : ? — ? BOX / ? PACK CT.
WRAPPER CODE : ? — NO 'H' SYMBOL OR PRICE



BONUS BOX CODE : 1-939-50-02-0 — UPC 0-41116-10939-3 — BONUS CARD B4
CASE BOX CODE : 2-939-60-01-0 — UPC 0-41116-30939-7 — 16 BOX / 5+1 PACK CT.
WRAPPER CODE : 0-757-54-01-0 — NO 'H' OR PRICE; RETAIL



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— The Feb/Mar 2011 (Vol 22, No. 1) issue of Non-Sport Update showcases a 'New & Noteworthy' article about the Garbage Pail kids FB2 set and portrays a base mock-up card of MASON Mace that is incorrectly spelled as 'MAYSON Mace'; not listed on the preliminary checklist and does not show up in published set. The 'Departments' section at the beginning of the publication shows a base mock-up Where Are They Now? card of Jolly ROGER that is misspelled as 'Jolly RODGER'; fixed for the release.

— The first 3-D Trading Cards for the GPK set are a step above the previous hologram motion cards. A total of five 3-D cards can be found for the set; the cards can be found 1 out of every 12 packs at random, but the ADAM Bomb 3-D card can only be found 1 out of every 85 packs. Right image: captured picture for the motion card.



— The set also features four levels of Parallel Cards to collect that mirrors the yellow 8-bit borders of the 160 base card set. These chase card parallel sets can be found in either a Green Gross border card inserted 1 out of every 2 packs, a Punk Pink border inserted 1:3 packs, a Silver border card inserted 1 out of every 6 packs or a Gold border set inserted 1:62 packs. The ADAM Mania level of Parallels is a bit rarer as follows: Green 1:24 packs, Pink 1:48 packs, Silver 1:96 packs, and Gold 1:993 packs. For each different parallel, the color of the border, logo background and nameplate are always the same.



— The set contains several missing Grammatical Marks from the previous editions; card 28b No Way JOSE is missing the accent mark, cards 78a Barfin BARBRA and B2 Vermin HERMAN are missing their apostrophes and 80a Half NELSON is missing its hyphen.

— This same-color 8-bit border phenomenon can also be found for the white-bordered Bonus Cards; although the first Flashback series also contained four bonus cards with original 10th series characters, the cards came in the same yellow-checkerboard as the base cards -- so this is a first for the Flashback sets, a white header with a white nameplate. Another 80 white-bordered, 8-bit border cards can be located; all 80 'a' base cards produced for the specialty market (Dollar Store) were erroneously manufactured with the same white borders instead of the yellow border. These cards can be found within the 4-card packs.



— The Poor QA Award goes to cards 14a and 14b which have the correct nameplates of Sewer SUE & MICHELLE Muck (OS2 cards 79a & 79b), corresponding with the preliminary checklist, but unfortunately portray the OS2 characters for Off-The-Wall PAUL & ZACH Plaque (cards 75a & 75b), respectively; which numerically, the cards would have fallen next to each other within the Flashback series if it was kept within the set.

— The Prestigious GPK Award goes to character cards Dangling DOLLY & Surreal NEAL which can both be found as base card twins in the original Flashback set for numbers 38a & 38b and in the Flashback 2 set for numbers 33a & 33b.



— Due to the Where Are They Now? subset and various series sets there are several cards with the exact Same Forenames or same first names; Cards 9a Smelly KELLY & 20b Jelly KELLY, 18b Picky MICKEY, 27a Yicchy MICKEY & 43a MICKEY Mouths, cards 1a Junkfood JOHN & 40a JOHN John, 7b TOMMY Tomb & 55b TOMMY Ache, cards 7a Wrappin' RUTH & 56b RUTH Canal, cards 3a Weird WENDY & 57b Waxy WENDY, 29a DEE Faced & 63a 3-DEE, cards 60b AL Catraz & 64a Dent AL, 13b & 73b Pegleg PETER & 68b PETER Meter and cards 13a & 73a Jolly ROGER.

— The Where Are They Now? subset puts several original GPK characters into nowaday scenarios, twenty-five years later as young adults. This is the only all-new artwork created for the Flashback, throwback set created by Tom Bunk, Brent Engstrom, Mark Pingitore and Joe Simko. The card set has the original character card images on the backside; although both card backs only have the A names and no B names and a new banner is placed on the mock-up image.



— The newly introduced Shaped Sketch Cards, an exclusive sketch card for the hobby release, is the head and cloud outline of the main GPK mascot ADAM Bomb character. Original series artwork by John Pound is found on the backside along with the signature spot and the frontside is blank for the sketch area. Artwork for these cards was exclusivly done by non-GPK artists who work out of the 1988 Gallery in California who have throwback 80's art exhibits and were chosen by Topps to complete these sketch cards for the release. Perhaps to help meet the supply and demand for sketch cards since the Flashback 1 series came up shy. Five artists from Gallery 1988 worked on the hobby shaped Sketch cards which includes: Tom Haubrick, Ken Garduno, Misha, Irma Rivera and Keith Noordzy. A postcard image for the show is pictured below for a Garbage Pail Kids tribute show.





— The Where Are They Now? Naming Errors; the front and back names for cards 78a Barfin BARBRA & 78b VALARIE Vomit should be spelled Barfin' BARBARA & VALERIE Vomit, respectively.

— Although there is no hobby box poster for this release, there are 5 Collectable Posters that come folded and packaged within the new GPK Value Packs ($4.99 for 24 Cards + Poster); these packs are very reminiscent of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th original series Rack Packs (minus the poster). The posters measure 12in x 14in and can be found with the following characters with nameplates: ADAM Bomb, Leaky LINDSAY, Bony TONY, MICHAEL Mutant & Explorin' NORMAN. It seems more logical to have had removed the nameplates and just have the GPK header instead.



— The set contains two separate Checklists, one specifically for the 'A' cards, and another for the 'B' cards. As with ANS6, ANS7, and the first Flashback series, this is the fourth release that has a checklist outlined by the color blue. The other blue phenomenon, the GPK logo is always blue in the set, there is no red GPK card logo on ANY card fronts. The ADAM Mania subset are the only cards with the GPK banner logo of yesteryears.

— Preliminary Mock-Up Wrapper images were created for the GPK Flashback 2 release, as they are for all Topps releases; these two images were unfortunately not chosen for the final product release, but are an extremely cool concept.



— GPK Veteran Artist Tom Bunk contributed three final artwork pieces for the GPK Flashback 2 set with the Half-NELSON being a concept by Colin Walton. Below are the pencil/pen and color roughs for cards #77 through #80 from the Where Are They Now? base card subset created by Tomas Bunk before starting on the final artwork. Notice that two of the final artwork pieces on card have the Kids with five fingers.




— Several Product Ideas are developed for the Topps releases; one being a GPK cereal box concept very similar to the recent Wacky Packages ANS7 set that contained base cards and an exclusive bonus card. Unfortunately, this GPK concept was shelved and only an image survives. The cereal box portrays an image of the first series character 1a Nasty NICK & 1b Evil EDDIE on a parody box of General Mills' monster-themed breakfast cereals 'Count Chocula'.



— GPK Next-Gen Artist Joe Simko contributed 1 final artwork piece for the GPK Flashback 2 set. Below is Joe's original pencil sketch and color rough for cards 74a & 74b, for Greaser GREG & CHRIS Hiss, respectively, from the Where Are They Now? base card subset. The wrench skull-and-crossbones t-shirt design can be found on the backside of the character's leather biker jacket; added to the color rough stage—as well as the 'The Gross Father' picture to go along with the mob boss parody. Although blood was added and kept for the final artwork the broken glass bottle and cut-off finger are missing from the final artwork. Joe Simko and June Gonzalez also replaced Jay Lynch for this release and completed all the writing for the card backs; a 'Fakebook' Facebook parody message feed.




— GPK Next-Gen Artist Brent Engstrom contributed 1 final artwork piece for the GPK Flashback 2 set which can be seen on the 'Artwork Gallery' page. Below is the original pencil sketch and color rough for cards 77a & 77b from the Where Are They Now? base card subset; it's nice to see these older GPK characters with five fingers again. The flowing blood from popped blisters was removed for the final piece; and flying anxiety sweat was added to complete the comedic joke. Brent also worked on all 10 themes and imagery for the 10 ADAM Mania cards for this release.



— Within Brent Engstrom's digital ADAM Mania card set, the artwork piece for the 'Zombies' theme (numbering 8 of 10), have the following artists and Topps names that can be found on the tombstones: John Pound, Tom Bunk, Jay Lynch, Jeff Zapata, Brent Engstrom, Mark Pingitore and John Williams. There are also four collectors names harder to see, if not unseen, on several tombstones: (Aaron J) Booton, (Gabriel) Phillips, (James H)oux, and (Steve) Potter. Thanks Brent!



— GPK Next-Gen Artist Mark Pingitore came in the lead with 5 completed digital artwork pieces for the Where Are They Now? base card subset, basically completing half of the new artwork for the set. Mark sketched out several concept pieces that did not make it into the series, including an OS6 RUSTY Heap piece (pimped out and restored), an OS3 Galloping GLEN piece (winning a horse race) and an OS9 Skin LES piece (leaning against a wall with skin over shoulder like a jacket). Also not considered for the set are the following images showcasing OS2 Live MIKE (playing 'Guitar Hero' on a next generation gaming console) later released in the Flashback Series 3 set and an OS3 ALI Gator (made into a nice set of gator skin luggage).



— In 2011, artist Brent Engstrom created an ADAM Bomb-insired cover for the Strange Kids Club Comix Anthology #1 publications. The artwork encapsulates the iconic era of the 80's; a kaleidoscope explosion showcasing such images as the character Slimer from the Ghostbusters movie, masked wrestlers, Critters, GPK, Jason Vorhees from Friday the 13th movie, Freddy Krueger's gloved hand from A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, Gremlins and Gizmo, He-Man, et cetera and Strange Kid mascot himself brandishing an Atari controller and sporting Converse shoes.



— The previously unpublished artwork for the Lost GPK cards 66a/b through 70a/b were pulled from the original 1989 unreleased OS16 GPK set and not found within the published 2003 All-New Series 1 card set; more information and images within the OS16 and ANS1 sections.