2026 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Halloween: The Complete Odds, Parallel, and Print Run Breakdown

2026 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Halloween goes on sale October 22 at noon Eastern, according to Topps' product page. Topps posted the checklist on October 14 and the odds sheet the next day. The sheet is one column of 12 lines with no print runs, but Topps' checklist numbers the whole base ladder, from Gold Slime /50 down to the FoilFractor 1/1. Together they put the product at about 17,280 to 18,000 packs, depending on which way Topps rounded the odds, and from there we can check the numbered tiers, estimate the cards that carry no number, and see how much of the ladder actually made it into packs.

The box

Topps hasn't posted a box configuration or price for Halloween yet. The odds sheet has a single column, headed Single Box, and it doesn't say whether the odds are per pack or per box. We read them per pack. Add up every line and it comes to about one card a pack (1.01) on top of the base cards: a numbered Slime parallel, an insert, a sketch card or an autograph. If the odds turn out to be per box, every pack count below is a box count instead.

That's the same shape as Topps' Valentine's Day GPK release this year. Topps lists that one at three packs a box, eight cards a pack and 10 boxes a case, with six base cards, one Red Heart Border card and one hit in every pack, and its sheet adds up the same way, to 0.99 a pack beyond the Red Heart Borders. The Halloween sheet gives no odds for the regular wrapper cards.

The checklist

Not counting parallels and sketch cards, Topps' checklist runs 130 cards across six subsets, and 53 artists are on the sketch card list.

The base set is 50 cards in 25 name pairs. Topps' checklist numbers them 1A to 25A and 1B to 25B, so each number carries an A name and a B name, from 1A Dead TED and 1B Jay Decay to 25A PATTY Putty and 25B Muggin' MEGAN. The backs build five nine-piece puzzles (Dead TED, SY Clops, Ghastly ASHLEY, Blasted BILLY and JASON Basin), and the backs of 21B through 25B show the five completed puzzles.

The inserts:

• C Names, 25 cards numbered 1C to 25C, from Bucket Head JED to Cauldron COLLEEN.
• Scream Queens, 10 cards in five A and B pairs, which Topps' product page bills as Favorite Celebrity Scream Queens: JAMIE LEE Hurtus and Lurking LAURIE, JANET Leeks and Crazed CRANE, Nervous NEVE and Snotty SIDNEY, MICHELLE Yeller and Hairless HELEN, HEATHER Langentrapped and Nightmre NANCY (Topps' spelling).
• Art Variations, 10 alternate versions of base A cards: 3A Adam Bomb, 6A Bony Joanie, 7A New Wave Dave, 13A Scottie Potty, 18A Tee Vee Stevie, 20A Brainy JANIE, 21A Mad Max, 22A Jolly Rogers, 23A Ghastly ASHLEY and 25A PATTY Putty.
• Wrappers, 25 subjects, each with a Rainbow Foil parallel.

The Ghastly ASHLEY art variation is easy to tell from the base card at a glance: the base 23A has an orange bow at her collar, and the variation a black one.

The hits:

• Artist Autographs, 10 cards, two each from five GPK artists: Joe Simko (Dead Ted, Mad Max), Neil Camera (Adam Bomb, Stormy HEATHER), David Gross (Shrunken ED, Tatoo LOU), Smokin Joe (New Wave Dave, Sy Clops) and Brent Engstrom (Nasty Nick, Bony Joanie).
• Sketch Cards, one-of-a-kind sketches from 53 artists.
• Final Artwork Redemptions, for original artwork. They're on the odds sheet and Topps' product page, not on the checklist.

The base ladder

Every one of the 50 base cards, A and B, comes in five numbered Slime parallels. Topps' checklist gives the runs, and the odds sheet calls them Foil parallels. Odds are per pack:

That's 91 numbered parallels for each base card and 4,550 across the set. There's no unnumbered base parallel on the sheet. Together the five tiers fall about once every four packs.

The inserts and hits

Odds per pack:

Topps gives no print run for any of these. An autograph or a sketch card falls about once every seven packs (one in 7.2).

How many packs the sheet covers

With only one numbered ladder, the base set has to do the work. One catch: Topps prints odds as whole numbers, and its sheets don't all round the same way. Some round up, so the real odds are never longer than printed. Others round to the nearest whole number. Every line on this sheet fits either way, so here are both readings.

Multiply each tier's print run by the 50 base cards and by its odds, and you get the most packs that line allows, since a line can't put more copies in packs than were printed. Rounded to the nearest, each line allows a little more, because 1:7 could stand for anything up to one in 7.5:

If Topps rounded up, the Gold line is the tightest. At 17,500 packs or fewer, 1:360 leaves room for at most 48 FoilFractors in packs (17,500 divided by 359 is 48.7), which caps the count at 17,280 (48 x 360). The Final Artwork Redemption line pins it down. Redemptions come in whole numbers, and near that cap the only combination that fits both lines is 48 FoilFractors and 25 redemptions, at 17,276 to 17,280 packs: 17,280 divided by 25 is 691.2, which rounds up to 692.

If Topps rounded to the nearest, two counts near the top fit. With 48 FoilFractors and 25 redemptions, it's 17,288 to 17,303 packs (17,300 divided by 48 is 360.4, and divided by 25 it's 692). With all 50 FoilFractors and 26 redemptions, it's 17,979 to 18,004 packs (18,000 divided by 50 is exactly 360, and divided by 26 it's 692.3). 17,280 doesn't fit this reading: divided by 25 it's 691.2, which rounds to 1:691.

Both readings also allow a count of about 9,000 packs, which would leave about half of every numbered tier out of packs.

So the sheet covers about 17,280 packs if Topps rounded up, or about 17,300 or about 18,000 if it rounded to the nearest whole number. The three are within about 4 percent of each other, and nothing on the sheet picks between them. Topps hasn't posted the Halloween configuration. If it matches the Valentine's Day release, three packs a box and 10 boxes a case, 17,280 packs would be 5,760 boxes and 576 cases, and 18,000 would be 6,000 boxes and 600 cases. Each is the only count in its range that splits into whole cases, and the 17,300 range has none.

Not every numbered card is in a pack

Here's what the odds put in packs against the print runs, under each reading:

Whichever way the sheet rounds, the Orange, Black and Red Slime lines come up short of their full runs: at least 9 Orange, 7 Black and 6 Red Slimes aren't accounted for in packs, and at about 17,280 or 17,300 packs it's 14 to 17 Reds and 21 to 38 Blacks. The FoilFractor depends on the reading: 48 of the 50 at about 17,280 or 17,300 packs, all 50 at about 18,000. Topps' sheet notes that a subject on the checklist isn't guaranteed to appear in every parallel, and it doesn't say where the rest go.

The unnumbered cards

At 17,280 to 18,000 packs, here's about how many of each card are in packs. These are estimates: the pack count divided by the odds, and each line's own rounding can move it a few percent either way.

Each Artist Autograph comes to about 100 copies, about twice the Gold Slime's run of 50. Leaving out the one-of-a-kind sketches, the Wrapper Rainbow Foils are the scarcest unnumbered cards, at about 63 to 65 of each.

The C Names line is the loosest. At 1:3, whole-number rounding hides a lot: it could mean anything from almost one in two packs (if rounded up) to one in three and a half (if rounded to the nearest), so read that row as rough.

There's no figure for the base cards themselves or for the 25 regular wrapper cards. The sheet gives no odds for either, and Topps hasn't posted how many cards come in a pack, so there's no way to work out how many base cards each pack holds.

The rarest pulls

The toughest line on the sheet is the Final Artwork Redemption at 1:692, 25 or 26 in the whole run. That's about one every 230 boxes if Halloween boxes hold three packs, as Valentine's Day boxes do. Topps doesn't say how many pieces of original art are on offer.

Next is the FoilFractor at 1:360. Each of the 50 is one of one, and the odds put 48 of them in packs, or all 50 at about 18,000 packs. Then the Red Slime /5 at 1:74, about 233 to 244 of the 250 in packs across the 50 cards.

The sketch cards are one of a kind too, and the odds put about 1,440 to 1,500 of them in packs, about one every 12 packs. With the FoilFractors, that's about 1,500 one-of-a-kind cards in packs, plus 25 or 26 art redemptions.

What to watch

Garbage Pail Kids Halloween goes on sale October 22. The things we're watching: Topps posting the box configuration and price (if Topps lists one hit per pack, as it does for Valentine's Day, the odds can't all be rounded up, since rounded-up odds add to more than one a pack, and that would point to about 17,300 or 18,000 packs), how many pieces of original art the redemptions cover, the first FoilFractors to turn up, and odds for the regular wrapper cards. We'll update this piece if any of that changes.

The full checklist and every parallel with its print run and odds are on the 2026 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Halloween release page, and you can track what you pull in HobbyMonitor Collections.

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Published: October 2026